Verboticisms

Created by: mistressofwords

Pronunciation: mouth-a-roo-ji-tist

Sentence: The doctor said I have a bad case of Moutharougitist.

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having a red (rouge french for red) mouth that is swollen. yuk - mistressofwords, 2008-10-01: 15:58:00

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Created by: Sam123

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Created by: sugarinthegourd

Pronunciation: fō-tā'-jən

Sentence: Bob was supposed to work the Thursday after Thanksgiving, but he was struck down by a post-holiday fauxtagion.

Etymology: Faux, contagion

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: hook kee kon dree ah

Sentence: Mala Dee had called her boss describing her dreadful symptoms and the fact that her doctor had told her to take 2 weeks off to avoid spreading infection to her co-workers. Her boss was sympathetic, but any doubts he had about her lengthy illness were brought home as he watched the closing ceremonies of the Olympics from Vancouver and saw a shot of Mala dancing around with the Team Canada athletes. It was then he realized that she had only been suffering from the hookychondria, Gold Fever, like the rest of the country. GO, CANADA, GO!

Etymology: Hooky (truancy; failure to attend) & Hypochondria (chronic and abnormal anxiety about imaginary symptoms and ailments)

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"Mala Dee" Good one! - karenanne, 2010-03-02: 10:46:00

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: môrtəsäpərandēdī

Sentence: Never one to do things in a small way, when he wanted to extend his vacation in Hawaii, Jason called in dead... well nearly dead. His mortisoperandi was to have his wife report to his boss that he had contracted a possibly fatal disease. Just to be sure that nobody got clever enough to visit it was reported that he was in quarantine.

Etymology: mortis (death) + modus operandi (a particular way or method of doing something)

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Good one - karenanne, 2010-03-02: 10:47:00

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Created by: Tigger

Pronunciation: il'-ə-bi

Sentence: Since the fishing season opened on Wednesday, and Joe couldn't resist the 'lure' of it, he needed an ailibi to get a few days off from work.

Etymology: ail - to be unwell + alibi - an excuse; claiming to be elsewhere at a certain time in question.

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Didn't see this one earlier: Nice word! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-11-06: 19:34:00

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Created by: DrWebsterIII

Pronunciation: fab ri ˈkändrēa

Sentence: Sue Ellen was quite the fabrichondriac, forever playing hooky and getting away with it, that her jealous co-workers begged her for one of her never failing, get out of work, contagious conditions.

Etymology: fabricate: to lie, + hypochondria: imaginary illness

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Created by: icefoxgothic

Pronunciation: bra(long a)-da

Sentence: I never get vacations so I had to breda to my boss.

Etymology: Break-To pause or stop and day-like monday

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Created by: rexcausey

Pronunciation: vi-rawl-loo-zhuh-n

Sentence: Robbie cleverly came up with a virallusion when he found out his favorite pro baseball team made it to the World Series.

Etymology: Virallusion is noun derived from the words 1.) virus(Any of various extremely small, often disease-causing agents) and 2.) illusion(something that deceives by producing a false or misleading impression of reality)

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good word - Nosila, 2008-10-01: 22:02:00

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Created by: wordslikevenom

Pronunciation: B'you-fon-ik

Sentence: Phoebe's "sickies" had her down for just about every known, not so well known and outright fictitious illness and disease known to mankind. Playing the buphonic patient had become second nature to her at the start of the working week where she'd always manage to find a "cure" by the weekend. As Monday rolled around too soon, she was about to let her boss know that after calling out the doctor this morning she had been diagnosed with a rather nasty case of toe-stub and needed to rest until Friday evening.

Etymology: Bubonic plague: A rather nasty outbreak of spots. Actually, they seem to look more like boils that cover the whole body and eventually turn you to mush. Phony: not sincere or not real.

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