Verboticism: Failment
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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Workolepsy
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: work/o/lep/sy (long o sound in second syllable)
Sentence: When things need to be done you can count on his workolepsy disorder to kick in.
Etymology: work + narcolepsy
Physick
Created by: k28en
Pronunciation: fee-sick
Sentence: As a noun: He is such a physick. His physick is acting up again.
Etymology: Physically Sick
Hypacleaniac
Created by: kimbo123
Pronunciation:
Sentence: He's always sick when there is work to be done. He's a hypacleaniac.
Etymology:
Potamobility
Created by: Bunny36
Pronunciation: Po-tah-moh-bill-i-tee
Sentence: Daddy seems to have come down with another case of potatamobility.
Etymology: Thought to have originated from the saying 'coach potato'.
Tempacitated
Created by: breaddough
Pronunciation: tem-pass-ih-tayted
Sentence: When the time came to take out the garbage, he always managed to become tempacitated for just enough time for someone else to do it.
Etymology: just look at the word
Mortachore
Created by: Lonflobber
Pronunciation: Mort-a-chore-ay
Sentence: Donald was suffering from an acute case of mortachore due to his wife's incessant nagging.
Etymology: "Morte"from the Italian for death, and "chore", a routine task
Avoiditis
Created by: McWhoopass
Pronunciation:
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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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Oporeraphobia
Created by: Empyreal
Pronunciation: oh-pore-er-a-fo-bee-a
Sentence: Oporereaphobia is the fear of work.
Etymology:
Futral
Created by: vladtheimpala
Pronunciation:
Sentence: As the argument between his wife and mother degenerated to new lows, Barry remained futral.
Etymology: Futile and Neutral