Vote for the best verboticism.
DEFINITION: v. To be physically overcome by a sudden illness, disability, or even death when asked to participate in unrewarding activities -- like work, or household chores. n. A person who gets sick when asked to work.
Verboticisms
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Federlinely
Created by: Chistinalove
Pronunciation: Federline (like in Kevin Federline) with a "lee" at the end. Federlinely.
Sentence: I felt Federlinely at the thought of rearranging my house by myself.
Etymology: Britney Spears husband is Keven Federline ... he acts Federlinely whenever he doesn't want to do something. Therefore Federlinely's definition is what it is.
Chorlapse
Created by: poptart9
Pronunciation:
Sentence: He had a case of chorlapse when she asked him to help.
Etymology:
Eschewitis
Created by: sisternyx
Pronunciation: es-shoo-i-tis
Sentence: Mom said the reason Dad has a headache every Saturday and can't go to grandma's house with us is that he has eschewitis.
Etymology: eschew itis
Dishporia
Created by: lordelph
Pronunciation: dish-*pore*-ree-ah
Sentence: I'm afraid your husband has uncurable dishporia
Etymology: In the middle ages, the dish-poor were peasants flogged for failing to complete chores assigned by the lord of the manor. The Victorians contracted this to dishpor, with Charles Dickens popularising the use of "dishporia" in The Pickwick Papers.
Grandmalaise
Created by: xcruser88x
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Struck suddenly by grandmalaise, Mike dropped to his knees in front of the dirty laundry.
Etymology: Grand Mal + Malaise
Chorabilism
Created by: kenners
Pronunciation: Chore-a-bal-lism
Sentence: I asked him to take the bins outside and he was suddenly onset with Chorabilism!
Etymology:
Dutiphobia
Created by: Verbotomnist
Pronunciation: Doo-tee-fo-bee-ah
Sentence: He suffers from dutiphobia, even the sight of a mop or broom may trigger an attack.
Etymology:
Hyperdutyitis
Created by: wordbird
Pronunciation: hi-per-do-tee-i-tis
Sentence: His work gland became inflamed when she mentioned cleaning the garage, causing a near fatal case of hyperdutyitis.
Etymology: hyper-overreaction; duty-duh!; itis-disease
Conveniolesce
Created by: Trivigo
Pronunciation:
Sentence: I knew that the sore ankle would give the chance to conveniolesce Saturday instead of mowing the lawn.
Etymology:
Aworkvoid
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: ah-werk-voyd
Sentence: Whenever big projects were on deck and his boss began to assign work, he began to plan his aworkvoid strategy. The next day he would announce to the team that he had strep throat, H1N1, and pneumonia all at once. Thus the 5 week absence began. Obviously when he came back to work all the projects were complete.
Etymology: avoid + work
Comments:
Divakar - 2006-12-13: 02:03:00
Hey guys...I'm new and maybe I'm misunderstanding something. It's called "verbotomy" but do our words have to be verbs? Because to me, this seems to ask for an adjective. I mean, "To fake a sudden..." or "To react with sudden illness..." would sound more verbish.
wordmeister - 2006-12-13: 03:02:00
Hey Divakar, Any kind of word will do, as long as it is you can use it in a sentence. And the funnier that sentence that more votes you'll get...
verbatul - 2006-12-13: 07:54:00
Divakar has a point though. An attempt should be made to supply a verb when one is asked for (and still maintain wit).
BaruMonkey - 2006-12-13: 10:32:00
insofar as the name of the game is concerned... Verboseness, Verbosity (n) - An expressive style that uses excessive or empty words.
DarthWader - 2006-12-13: 11:53:00
I agree with Divakar... The definition begins with "To be..." not "The condition of..." Verb, verb, verb. Verb is the worb.
Hey Players,
As you may have noticed we have lot's of new Verbotomists. Welcome to everyone! We are working on setting up a grouping system, so that we can play in smaller groups... We will keep you posted, as we update the system! Cheers, James
warped - 2006-12-13: 13:40:00
Bah, I should read the list FIRST next time: I accidently ended up using someone else's word (shirkitis). Ah well. Also, grouping people into smaller groups would be great, it seems we got a flood of people from Jay Is Games...
wordmeister - 2006-12-13: 13:45:00
Hey read the sentence for Workumvent -- it's funny
TheCapn - 2006-12-13: 20:57:00
Im pretty sure there is a real word for this...
TheCapn - 2006-12-13: 21:16:00
There is, its "Malinger"
- 2006-12-13: 22:12:00
DarthWader, "verb" also refers to words and speech, as in the words "verbal" and "verbalize," or as BaruMonkey pointed out, "verbose." Thus this game is not about the part of speech called "verb," but rather about words in general.
oxhead - 2006-12-14: 00:09:00
Bifurcated Rivets posted a link to your site recently. That's how I got here.
missparaguay1991 - 2006-12-15: 10:34:00
James you are geniatic! how didn't I think of possibilizing such a fun game! At least we've you! Congreetings!
Hey missparaguay, Thanks for the compliment. What really amazes me, is the super-creativity of all our the players -- there are so many terrific words and sentences! ~ James
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