Verboticism: Ahandypox
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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Comapose
Created by: jrogan
Pronunciation: koh-ma-poz
Sentence: Mitchell would go completely comapose whenever his wife asked him to do any chores around the house. This was relatively benign, until one day when they were driving home from cottage, and his wife thoughtlessly asked him if he could cut the grass when they got back to the city. He had just pulled into the passing lane, when he lost consciousness...
Etymology: comatose + pose (i.e. fake posture, stand still and do nothing)
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COMMENTS:
A Coma-ly word indeed! - Nosila, 2009-08-03: 22:58:00
great work, jrogan....you get my vote. - mweinmann, 2009-08-04: 07:34:00
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Chorevasia
Created by: attis
Pronunciation:
Sentence: The sound of vacuuming and a serious case of chorevasia put him out of action for hours.
Etymology:
Responsivulsion
Created by: magic
Pronunciation: [ri spons i vul shun]
Sentence:
Etymology: respnsibulity, convulsion
Chorecoma
Created by: misterdoug
Pronunciation: 'chor kO-m&
Sentence: ...
Etymology: ...
Workondriac
Created by: Flixst
Pronunciation: wer-kon-dree-ak
Sentence: "He can't work because he's a workondriac
Etymology: work + hypochondriac
Dishporia
Created by: lordelph
Pronunciation: dish-*pore*-ree-ah
Sentence: I'm afraid your husband has uncurable dishporia
Etymology: In the middle ages, the dish-poor were peasants flogged for failing to complete chores assigned by the lord of the manor. The Victorians contracted this to dishpor, with Charles Dickens popularising the use of "dishporia" in The Pickwick Papers.
Fludiddle
Created by: wordmeister
Pronunciation: flew-diddle
Sentence: I get the fluddidle every weekend when my wife asks me to clean up the yard.
Etymology: flu-do-diddle
Possumate
Created by: tripandahalf
Pronunciation:
Sentence:
Etymology:
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COMMENTS:
I possumated when I saw I had to add a comment. - tripandahalf, 2006-12-13: 22:33:00
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