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DEFINITION: n. A specialized inability, or area of "chosen incompetency", based on an individual's need to avoid certain unpleasant tasks. v. To avoid responsibility by claiming incompetence.
Verboticisms
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Laxevasion
Created by: Bulletchewer
Pronunciation: lacks-i-vay-shun
Sentence: Capone's laxevasion meant he never buried the bodies himself- he proclaimed himself especially inept at digging, or indeed using any garden implement.
Etymology: From "lax" and "evasion" and of course "tax evasion" which, though wrong, is probably the kinda crime we all wish we could get away with. Also nods at "lacksidaisical".
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COMMENTS:
hmm...doesn't laxevasion suggest you're evading laxness which would prompt you to embrace unpleasant tasks - I do like the sound of the word though - Jabberwocky, 2007-03-29: 11:22:00
Aint you never heard of a double negative- they're doubly negative. The Spanish love them. - Bulletchewer, 2007-03-29: 11:31:00
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Offaldodge
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: OF-UHL-doj
Sentence: At the first sign of any worthless rubbish, two-minute-old trash, household garbage or scraps of meat not worth getting upset about, offaldodging Bob would turn a whiter shade of pale. Ready to do all sorts of things and make numerous excuses to avoid any task he thought even a little unpleasant, this offaldodger thought that he fooled others. However, everyone quickly saw it as nothing more than an obvious offaldodge.
Etymology: OFFAL:waste parts,refuse,rubbish, garbage; inedible parts of a butchered animal DODGE: evade obligation by cunning, trickery.
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COMMENTS:
Well that's just awful. - Mustang, 2008-06-18: 08:10:00
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Imbeskill
Created by: ShaggE
Pronunciation:
Sentence: I used my imbeskill to avoid cleaning the kitchen.
Etymology: Imbecile+ Skill
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COMMENTS:
Good thinking! - wordmeister, 2007-03-31: 17:31:00
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Chorenography
Created by: porsche
Pronunciation: chor/ee/no/grafee
Sentence: With the proper chorenography he skirted every chore in the house
Etymology: choreography + chore + NO
Chorallergic
Created by: ekath
Pronunciation: chore-allergic
Sentence: hes both chorallergic to weeding and allergic to the flowers. garden duty isn't a very good assignment for him.
Etymology: chore + allergic
Skillusion
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: skill-oo-zhun
Sentence: My son is a master at the art of skillusion. His latest task evasion tactic was to weedwhack all my violetto artichoke plants, claiming he thought they were just giant thistles, which, of course, they are.
Etymology: skill, illusion
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COMMENTS:
What a skilljoy... - Discoveria, 2007-03-29: 09:34:00
Been there only the skillusion in this case involved a Watering Can..or was that a Watering Can skilluding and many dead plants.... - ajcor, 2007-03-29: 17:32:00
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Ignorunt
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: ig-ner-uhnt
Sentence: When Mom asks for someone to take out the trash Tommy is suddenly struck dumb, not having the knowledge or strength to handle the task seeing how he is the youngest. He is the ignorunt.
Etymology: ignorant (lacking in knowledge or training; unlearned) + runt (the smallest or weakest of a litter)
Willitterant
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)
Optionertia
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: op - shun - ERSH - ya
Sentence: Hector's ruse for avoiding those tasks and duties he hated so much was optionertia, a 'portfolio' of customized phantom disabilities that invariably evoked an outpouring of sympathy and a free pass on doing his share of the dirty jobs.
Etymology: Blend of option or optional and inertia.
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COMMENTS:
Hector needs a helping of outonyouearia if you ask me. - Rutilus, 2008-06-18: 15:23:00
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