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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.

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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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Balaless

Created by: onetwothree

Pronunciation: bay-lawl-is

Sentence:

Etymology:

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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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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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Posstititis

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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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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Malaisy

Created by: jadenguy

Pronunciation: ma lay zee

Sentence: Dad always said he had a bad case of the malaisy. His tincture was 1182 ccs of Olde English, coupled with an extra large bag of Funyuns and four hours of game shows. It wasn’t often that he’d make his stalignant restitis the focus of his day, though. He run to the restroom quite often.

Etymology: malignant + malaise + lazy

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COMMENTS:

great combo - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-12: 12:16:00

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Workalysis

Created by: r0b0tj0n3z

Pronunciation: whurr-cali-sis

Sentence: Scott was overcome with workalysis when his mom asked him to take out the trash.

Etymology: work, paralysis

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Grimereaped

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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