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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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Hepalietis
Created by: idavecook
Pronunciation: Hep-a-LIE-tis
Sentence: JIm's not here yet, I wonder if he's got hepalietis?
Etymology: Hepatitis + LIE
Artificill
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: ar-tuh-fish-il
Sentence: She artificillated so many times that her co-workers sent her get well floral bouquets each week whether she made it in to work or not.
Etymology: artificial + ill
Fakebuttsikinging
Created by: emilylind
Pronunciation: Say fake the butt and then the letters si and king and ing .
Sentence: she was fakebuttsikinging !
Etymology:
Breda
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
Illemanate
Created by: clarion
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Yeah, he totally illemanated the situation, and now he's taking an extra week's paid vacation while I'm stuck at the office doing all his work!
Etymology: ill- sickness and emanate- to send forth
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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Replillicate
Created by: tumblebehr
Pronunciation: Reh plah ih la cayt
Sentence:
Etymology:
Illployment
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: il-PLOI-ment
Sentence: By telling his boss that he was suffering from the barcoo rot, Bob created such a perfect illusion that he was granted immediate illployment on full pay for a month.
Etymology: ill: unwell, unfavorable; ploy: 1. trick, manoeuvre, 2. piece of business, task & ment: act. ... Illusion: blend of ill & illusion.
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COMMENTS:
glad everything went well with the cardio - nice word - Jabberwocky, 2007-11-02: 12:34:00
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Grimweeker
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: GRIM-week-uhr
Sentence: When telephonicly Bob's eerie ebolalia mournfully eked out his own impending self-doom; his boss, Mr Hart, always immediately granted to him, a moaning, groaning grimweeker, the next five working days off on full pay.
Etymology: GRIM: having a harsh, surly, forbidding, or morbid air; melancholy; despondent: & WEEK:the working days or working portion of the seven-day period; workweek; _ER: (suffix): forming nouns, denoting doer. GRIM REAPER: the ghastly, savage, fierce, harsh, stalking, foreboding and repulsive aspect of immanent death. EBOLALIA (ebola & lalia)
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COMMENTS:
a whole week? lucky guy - Jabberwocky, 2008-10-01: 11:00:00
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Medifabulate
Created by: jdurham777
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Since I had used up all my vacation, I had to resort to my 'trick knee,' call my boss and medifabulate to get the week off.
Etymology: Medi - (n) relating to the management of physical disorder fabulate (v) to lie. 3rd century Rome, when the senatorial archives record a spike in the number of soldiers claiming illness to avoid duty.
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by remistram and svnfsvn. Thank you remistram and svnfsvn! ~ James'
Thanks to everyone for joining me at our Blog Party yesterday to celebrate Verbotomy's first birthday. It was a lot of fun. Thanks! ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by remistram svnfsvn. Thank you remistram svnfsvn. ~ James