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'Mommy, is Daddy playing dead again?'

DEFINITION: To be physically overcome by a sudden illness, disability, or even death when asked to participate in unrewarding activities -- like work, or household chores.

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Azlism

Created by: mysti

Pronunciation: Azz-liz-em

Sentence: I think daddy is suffering from azlism again!

Etymology:

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Dethrilliwaition

Created by: HALibut

Pronunciation: Di-thril-i-weyt-shuhn

Sentence: Larry's eyes opened and slowly came into focus on the calendar faintly illuminated through the shades. Realizing it was employee review day he was stricken with a sudden and paralyzing dethrilliwation, fortunately he was able to move his arm just far enough to once again hit the snooze button.

Etymology: De(reduced) + thrill + wait + ion(condition)

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Grimereaped

petaj

Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: grime-reept

Sentence: Gemma felt she had become a grimereaper when her fourth husband dropped dead after she asked him to clear the table. Eerily, her previous three husbands had also fallen gravely ill and died when confronted with simple household chores.

Etymology: From old Aleutian "grymereept" used to describe lazy men who'd spend all day reading crime novels ignoring the litter, dirty crockery and food scraps piling up around them. It is completely coincidental that it is reminiscent of the "Grim Reaper".

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Yardshirk

Created by: porsche

Pronunciation: yard/shurk

Sentence: Everytime there was yard work to be done, he did the yardshirk

Etymology: shirk + yard work

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Heartattask

Created by: mplsbohemian

Pronunciation: HART-uh-task

Sentence: Alex was hit with so severe a heartattask at the site of the professor's assignment, that he was stuck in bed for three days, completely unable to operate a laptop.

Etymology: heart attack + task

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COMMENTS:

sounds serious - he might have to resort to bribery and go in for a buypass - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-12: 12:34:00

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Slothia

Created by: KristinA

Pronunciation: sloth-E-uh

Sentence: She named her family's slothia as her reason for hiring a maid service.

Etymology: "sloth" for 1) the slow, if not motionless, characteristics of the animal and 2) the adjective meaning messy + "ia" for the condition thereof

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Helpunoma

Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: help eew noo maa

Sentence: his helpyounoma always flared up just before and just after meal times, and his mother just didn't understand.

Etymology: help you? no ma!

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COMMENTS:

If he's not careful, he'll develop chronic helpatitis but I think there are big needles for that - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-12: 12:31:00

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Ishirk

Created by: administraitor

Pronunciation: eye-shirk

Sentence: Harold discovered that by always wearing a headset and avoiding eye contact with his parents, he was able to ishirk any chore that would have otherwise fallen to him. His "wait until this song is finished" lament finally destroyed his father's determination to compel him to action, leaving the poor old guy a shadow of his former (pre-having-a-teenager) self!

Etymology: ipod + shirk

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COMMENTS:

Would anyone guess that I've got one of these at home? - administraitor, 2007-07-12: 12:17:00

I feel your pain. - purpleartichokes, 2007-07-12: 12:52:00

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Husbandcondriac

Created by: ladyhelm

Pronunciation:

Sentence:

Etymology:

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COMMENTS:

this happanes! - ladyhelm, 2007-07-15: 18:01:00

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Deworkibilitate

Created by: remistram

Pronunciation: dee-werk-i-bill-i-tate

Sentence: Ed's constant deworkibilitation practices started rubbing off on the kids. For example, the horrified neighbours thought that Timmy had collasped on the front lawn, and called 911. Little did they know that his Mum had just asked him to mow the lawn.

Etymology: debilitate + work

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Comments:

HALibut - 2007-07-12: 00:47:00
Dethrilliwaition

HALibut - 2007-07-12: 00:51:00
oop

rikboyee - 2007-07-12: 01:45:00
as verbotomists...surely we need to think up a word for 'accidently entering your word in the comment box'

petaj petaj - 2007-07-12: 03:09:00
How about verbotogaffe?

rikboyee - 2007-07-12: 04:52:00
or wrongspotomy

petaj petaj - 2007-07-12: 05:57:00
Good one! Maybe dysboxia describes it, or commentouch.

purpleartichokes - 2007-07-12: 07:07:00
boxnix

purpleartichokes - 2007-07-12: 07:53:00
commentose?

galwaywegian - 2007-07-12: 07:58:00
verblitch?

purpleartichokes - 2007-07-12: 08:56:00
boxlexic?

jadenguy - 2007-07-12: 10:38:00
boxnative dissonance?

purpleartichokes - 2007-07-12: 10:46:00
enturd?

Kyoti - 2007-07-12: 10:57:00
Quadrilateraccidental? ;))

Jabberwocky - 2007-07-12: 11:46:00
how about commenterry?

purpleartichokes - 2007-07-12: 12:45:00
verratumy?

HALibut - 2007-07-12: 12:53:00
lmbo

Jabberwocky - 2007-07-12: 14:24:00
sorry - it must seem as if we're making you the HALibut of our jokes. We're only having pun

HALibut - 2007-07-12: 21:15:00
np, I had it coming, commentose gmv, always bugs me there's no way to delete accidental comments :-( lol

Rossco - 2007-08-10: 15:05:00
Blurbgate?