Verboticism: Liephoyd
DEFINITION: v., To create the impression that you are deathly ill and represent a potentially lethal bio-hazard risk, so that your boss will ask you to "take the next couple of days off". n., A faked illness.
Liephoyd
Created by: libertybelle
Pronunciation: lie - foyd
Sentence: The boss suspected that Barry's third tonsillectomy of the year was in reality a case of liephoid fever.
Etymology: lie + typhoid (a disease more prevalent around the turn of the 20th century)
Points: 449
Comments: Liephoyd
Jabberwocky - 2007-11-02: 12:29:00
funny - I guess he would be Liephoyd Barry - Typhoid Mary's brother
OZZIEBOB - 2007-11-04: 16:40:00
If Barry keeps carrying on in this way up, his boss will "have him up to his back teeth." Nice word:imaginative!
milorush - 2007-11-06: 13:00:00
I had a wicked case of liephoyd last Friday!