Verboticisms

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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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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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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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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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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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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Created by: Kyoti

Pronunciation: Poss-tuh-tie-tuhss

Sentence: Gary stuck his hand into the job jar and was instantly overcome with a bout of posstititis.

Etymology: Possum(playing dead)+PostIts(sticky notes found on desks and refrigerators)+itis(medical ailment suffix)

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COMMENTS:

It's a good thing Gary doesn't work in a Postit Office - or does he?? - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-12: 12:40:00

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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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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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Created by: Lapper

Pronunciation: SLAC-en-COPE

Sentence: James went slackyncope when Mary wanted him to help clean out the litter boxes; he's been this way for so long that he's never even laid eyes on them before.

Etymology: Slack and syncope (fainting)

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