Verboticisms

Created by: jedijawa

Pronunciation: chore-pall-see

Sentence: Billy would come down with chorepalsy every time his mom would ask him to do anything around the house, claiming inability to do the task.

Etymology: chore (task) + palsy (paralysis or condition)

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: 1nkɑmpədəns

Sentence: Josh has shown in numerous ways that he is a smart kid. He has successfully completed a number of video games. His grades are good. But when his mom asks for assistance, he is the picture of imcompedense.

Etymology: incompetence (not having or showing the necessary skills to do something successfully) + dense (stupid)

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Created by: CharlieB

Pronunciation: in-com-pre-tense

Sentence: Marcus expended more effort on his displays of incompretence than he would have done on actually finishing off his chores. He was a real laboor.

Etymology: incompetence (lack of ability) + pretence (the act of pretending; a false claim)

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Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: SHIRK-mast-e-ree

Sentence: Neville Nogood's shirkmastery was his inability to stop gagging when the prospect of cleaning the toilet became likely.

Etymology: shirk (evade responsibility) + mastery (consumate skill)

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COMMENTS:

Is that Upta's brother? - Alchemist, 2007-03-29: 07:11:00

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: will lit tur ant

Sentence: Will's mother was usually driven to frustration by her teenage son. Will was willitterant when it came to doing chores around the home, especially garbage detail. He would feign ignorance and pretend he had never done it before or know how. Much drama ensued. It was quite ironic that in his early twenties, Will became a Waste Management Engineer and earned $40 per hour hauling away other people's trash.

Etymology: Will (a fixed and persistent intent or purpose; the capability of conscious choice and decision and intention) & Litter (rubbish, trash, garbage) & Avoidant (state of deliberately avoiding; keeping away from or preventing from happening)& Rant (a bombastic declamation expressed with strong emotion)

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Created by: porsche

Pronunciation: chor/ee/no/grafee

Sentence: With the proper chorenography he skirted every chore in the house

Etymology: choreography + chore + NO

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Created by: suzanne

Pronunciation: sh- irk - way -stir

Sentence: his shirkwaster was an allergy to water which meant that most of the lifeguarding duties fell to george.

Etymology: shirk - to avoid your responsibility. waster - someone who takes up air better used by cockroaches.

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Created by: metapsyche

Pronunciation:

Sentence: Cleaning the toilet is my decapability.

Etymology: de (removed) + capability (ability to perform a task) = Intentional and self-imposed incapability

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Created by: Alchemist

Pronunciation: vecks-per-TEES

Sentence: Although Josh was horrible at all the household chores, Ellen soon learned that his area of vexpertise was doing the dishes. Once he "did" them, they never needed to be done again.

Etymology: vex + expertise

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Created by: stache

Pronunciation: dĭ-lĭb'ər-ĭg'nər-əns

Sentence: Like many teen-agers, Jacob's deliberignorance with respect to chores as common as washing dishes and doing his own laundry was transparent.

Etymology: delibber, slang for an anti-feminist; Berignor, french-gaelic var. on the name 'Berringer;' Rance, Ron Howard's brother.

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COMMENTS:

Yup. As a teen my son was very deliberignorant too. - lumina, 2008-06-18: 12:31:00

like it - Jabberwocky, 2008-06-18: 16:55:00

Deliberia! - Nosila, 2008-06-19: 00:38:00

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