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DEFINITION: v., To create the impression that you are deathly ill and represent a potentially lethal bio-hazard risk, so that your boss will ask you to "take the next couple of days off". n., A faked illness.
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Deathillie
Created by: rexturtle
Pronunciation: deathil-LIE, or Death-IL-lie, or DEATH- illie : Comments please
Sentence: I told a deathillie to get off work today
Etymology: Crushing together of "deathly", "ill", and "lie".
Fakesicknessism
Created by: ethancarlyon
Pronunciation: fake sick niss is um
Sentence: I used my fakesicknessism to get out of school early yesterday.
Etymology: fake- not real sick- not healthy ism- syndrome
Psuedoviraltruancy
Created by: Koekbroer
Pronunciation: syoo-do-vi-ral-troo-en-see
Sentence: Once or twice a year Doug would call up his boss and scare the living daylights out of him with some story of a super infectious virus. This was in order to get a day off for hiking in the mountains when a good head-clearing was called for. On the whole, though, he was a very conscientious member of the workforce so the only thing one could really accuse him of was a little psuedoviraltruancy.
Etymology: psuedo + viral + truancy
Fluse
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: f/lose
Sentence: Whenever Jenny has had enough of work, she'll call in with the fluse when she needs a mental health day at the beach.
Etymology: FLUSE noun - from FLU (highly contagious viral disease)+ FALSE (not genuine; counterfeit) + RUSE (a crafty trick, stratagem)
Contagialize
Created by: taggreen
Pronunciation:
Sentence: No, we're cool, I contagialized my boss and she made me take the day off.
Etymology:
Buphonic
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.
Moutharougitist
Created by: mistressofwords
Pronunciation: mouth-a-roo-ji-tist
Sentence: The doctor said I have a bad case of Moutharougitist.
Etymology:
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COMMENTS:
having a red (rouge french for red) mouth that is swollen. yuk - mistressofwords, 2008-10-01: 15:58:00
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Illibi
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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COMMENTS:
Didn't see this one earlier: Nice word! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-11-06: 19:34:00
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Ergbola
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: urg-bowl-ah
Sentence: She woke up with a wicked case of ergbola, compounded by an overwhelming need to feel the sand between her toes and the sun on her face.
Etymology: erg, ebola
Cellulietis
Created by: karenanne
Pronunciation: sel yu LIE tis
Sentence: When Larry called into work and said he couldn't get out of bed because he had cellulietis, that was technically accurate, since he WAS using his CELL phone to LIE about not coming in. The "couldn't get out of bed" part was because his long-distance girlfriend was visiting!
Etymology: cellulitis + lie
Comments:
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Today's definition was suggested by remistram svnfsvn. Thank you remistram svnfsvn. ~ James