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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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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.

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Procrasticonstipation

Created by: loofarama

Pronunciation: pro-crasti-constipation

Sentence: As soon as i asked him to do the laundry he ran to the bathroom, maybe he's just procrasticonstipated

Etymology: procrastination + constipation

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COMMENTS:

Love the sing-song sound of this one. - purpleartichokes, 2007-07-12: 10:47:00

Sounds like a good title for a Styx album. - Kyoti, 2007-07-12: 13:23:00

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Pseudomortisize

Created by: Dboozer

Pronunciation: soo-dough-more-tih-size

Sentence: Vinny pseudomortized so well that his wife regularly tried to have him embalmed, usually on Sundays when the grass needed mowed.

Etymology: pseudo (false, fake) + mortis (death) + ize (verb)

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COMMENTS:

the lazy sod !! but I hear her neighbour is a rake - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-12: 12:45:00

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Chorematose

Created by: Osomatic

Pronunciation: chore + ma + tose

Sentence: My, will you look at all that laundry, and there's my girlfriend, lying chorematose on the couch.

Etymology: chore + comatose

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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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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

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Jobbled

Created by: purpleartichokes

Pronunciation: job-bulled

Sentence: Her husband would have loved to help, but the mere thought of grasping the toilet brush made him jobbled.

Etymology: job, hobbled

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COMMENTS:

funny - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-12: 12:20:00

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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.

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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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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?