Verboticism: Airboreditis
DEFINITION: The slow but steady rise of murmurs, coughs or harrumphs in audience. May indicate audience dissatisfaction, or the presence of a lethally infectious virus.
Airboreditis
Created by: KristinA
Pronunciation: air-bored-eye-tis
Sentence: After the critic reported how airboreditis ran rampant during opening night, calls for ticket sales were replaced by those from the media and the Center for Disease Control.
Etymology: airborne (in the air) + bored + itis (swelling of)
Points: 887