Verboticism: Slackout
DEFINITION: v. To be physically overcome by a sudden illness, disability, or even death when asked to participate in unrewarding activities -- like work, or household chores. n. A person who gets sick when asked to work.
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Workulosis
Created by: valhallan
Pronunciation:
Sentence: i can't, i think i have workulosis
Etymology:
Effortaphobia
Created by: babel
Pronunciation: ef-fort-a-pho-bee-a
Sentence: Billy always felt a sudden rush of effortaphobia whenever the ironing board was near.
Etymology: effort + phobia
Flegate
Created by: currentlyinsolitude
Pronunciation: fli-gate
Sentence: When asked to sweep the floor, Jon flegated, and had to be rushed to the hospital.
Etymology: German
Rigormorvenience
Created by: sargent1
Pronunciation:
Sentence:
Etymology: Very convenient Rigor Mortis
Avoiditis
Created by: McWhoopass
Pronunciation:
Sentence:
Etymology:
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COMMENTS:
This inflammation of the avoidance gland causes several overt symptoms that can be mistaken for illness, disablility, and in some extreme cases death. Caution should be used in treating victims of avoiditis as any percieved work on the part of the suffere - McWhoopass, 2006-12-13: 14:58:00
...sufferer could result in heightened symptoms - McWhoopass, 2006-12-13: 14:58:00
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Responsivulsion
Created by: magic
Pronunciation: [ri spons i vul shun]
Sentence:
Etymology: respnsibulity, convulsion
Impossumate
Created by: coinstar
Pronunciation: im-pau-sum-ate (v); see also impossumator, impossumation
Sentence: "Forged over decades of daily performances -- whenever anything needed to get done -- Larry's impossumation skills were legendary throughout the entended family."
Etymology: Active rather than passive verb (defintion should be clarified), from the Latin noun "possuma", an intentional role or affectation based on the unique fight-or-flight behavior of the North American marsupial, the opossum.
