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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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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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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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Balaless

Created by: onetwothree

Pronunciation: bay-lawl-is

Sentence:

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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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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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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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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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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Retard

Created by: cinta1

Pronunciation:

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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?