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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.
Verboticisms
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Pretead
Created by: weareallbeautiful
Pronunciation: p-ruh-t-eh-d
Sentence: Every time he was asked to take out the garbage Zack was pretead.
Etymology: pretend+dead
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
Chorevoidance
Created by: MisUndrstd
Pronunciation: Ch-ore-voi-dance
Sentence: My cousin Vinnie (you know the one from Bronx) was a master at Chorevoidance when his wife Mary Theresa asked him to do something.
Etymology: Chore+ Avoidance= Chorevoidance.
Workolepsy
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: work/o/lep/sy
Sentence: When things need to be done you can count on his workolepsy disorder to kick in.
Etymology: work + narcolepsy
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COMMENTS:
like it! - galwaywegian, 2007-07-12: 08:02:00
Now that's a word I can use. - ChristopherAndersen, 2007-07-31: 17:49:00
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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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Yardshirk
Created by: porsche
Pronunciation: yard/shurk
Sentence: Everytime there was yard work to be done, he did the yardshirk
Etymology: shirk + yard work
Lusioscanamy
Created by: Eeliza
Pronunciation: Lucy-Oh-Si-Can-A-Me
Sentence: "My mother yelled at me yesterday to Lusioscanamy...she was so angry!"
Etymology: Definition- Meaning to exit ones living quarters or face viloent consequences.
Comapossify
Created by: fyaishar
Pronunciation: COMA poss efie
Sentence: Johnathan Frackeiss the hobocaveman wanted to watch the Sunday Night Football game on Pay-per-view, but his wife/sister wanted him to fix the dented trash can in their alley. (What would the neighbors think?) In order to avoid work, he comapossified himself right next to a dead squirrel. Thinking that Johnathan was doing business with the squirrel she allowed him not to do the work and then commited suicide the end.
Etymology: coma(tose)+(play)poss(um)+ify
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COMMENTS:
A filigliberotsmatation is the unsimplification of a simple word. - fyaishar, 2007-07-12: 20:18:00
Ignore the above. I just figured out the rules of the game. - fyaishar, 2007-07-12: 20:36:00
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Vigourmortis
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: vig-er-mor-tiss
Sentence: when ever it was suggested that he go out and mow the lawn he went into a state of vigourmortis
Etymology: vigour, rigor mortis
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COMMENTS:
Love this word. - purpleartichokes, 2007-07-12: 07:55:00
followed by a touch of vimnesia I suppose - galwaywegian, 2007-07-12: 08:01:00
great word - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-12: 12:15:00
Talk about a stiff sentence! - Kyoti, 2007-07-12: 13:26:00
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Dischorder
Created by: ziggy41
Pronunciation: Dis-chore-dur
Sentence: All of my kids suffer from frequent dischorders when asked to do household tasks, my wife and I notice the symptoms right away: crying, tantrums, and the occasional "talkback." If this occurs we allow a low allowance.
Etymology: Disorder (a disruption of normal physical functions) + chore (a task or errand)
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COMMENTS:
allowalowallow - nice resonance - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-12: 12:18:00
I was hoping someone would catch it. - ziggy41, 2007-07-12: 13:34:00
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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'
How about verbotogaffe?
rikboyee - 2007-07-12: 04:52:00
or wrongspotomy
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?