Verboticism: Effortaphobia
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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Possumize
Created by: red11385
Pronunciation: poss-uhm-ize
Sentence: Dad possimized when asked to mow the lawn, but miraculously recovered when his buddy asked him to the football game.
Etymology:
Fatalysis
Created by: Adamm
Pronunciation: Fay-tal-iss-iss
Sentence: "My brother comes over with a bout of Fatalysis at the mere sight of a dishcloth."
Etymology: A fusion of the words Fatal and Paralysis, as the "victim" becomes paralysed to such an extreme that a fatality is sometimes believed to have occoured.
Laziitis
Created by: lucyof2009
Pronunciation: lazy-itis
Sentence: Sorry boss, I can't come to work today; I have laziitis.
Etymology: Combination of the word lazy and the suffix "itis" which usually describes a disease.
Vigormortis
Created by: zwillinger
Pronunciation: viggerMORtiss
Sentence: Tom was overcome with VIGORMORTIS whenever asked to do anything strenuous.
Etymology:
Overgothigh
Created by: Yugoslav
Pronunciation: Pronounced in two ways: the first one is slow, soft: like somebody who say this has used some stuff, you know... Second way: fast, street-style, [Ovagothi'], Man!
Sentence: I was very overgothigh yesterday.
Etymology: Over Got High
Choroke
Created by: Jessj
Pronunciation: Chore+oak
Sentence: As soon as Marge asked him to clean out the garage he began to choroke by coughing like he had something in his throat.
Etymology: Chore + choke
Laboracide
Created by: janham
Pronunciation: lay-bore-a-syd
Sentence: John went into laboracide after he was told to do the dishes.
Etymology: labor-as in work a-just there to make it cooler cide-as in suicide
Narcolazy
Created by: tenunda
Pronunciation: GNAR koh lay zee
Sentence: Why is Phil asleep? Oh, He's not, it's just and episode of narcolazy.
Etymology: "Narco", from the Ancient Greek "nark," which means numbness. "lazy" etymology is here: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=lazy. The combination is an original construction.
Choreitus
Created by: GreatRandew
Pronunciation: Chore-Ite-us
Sentence: When Dad had was asked to do the dishes he had a sudden fit of choreitus
Etymology: From the English Word Chore and the English -itus a common extension for illnesses
Disactivia
Created by: danboaz
Pronunciation: dis-act-ivia
Sentence: Harold, afflicted with disactivia, was misunderstood even by his own family. He has been unemployed since '86 after his co-workers threated to walk-out if he was not going to be held accountable for not doing his share of taking the garbage out.
Etymology: dis: not + active
