Verboticism: Shirkitis
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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Taskophobia
Created by: hvhtim
Pronunciation: tas-co-FO-be-ah
Sentence: taskophobia struck as soon as dishes were mentioned.
Etymology: task, -phobia
Laxanthropy
Created by: whimsy
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Marie was conveniently overwhelmed by a case of laxanthropy when it came time to clean up after the party.
Etymology:
Exerthaustion
Created by: golux13
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Bob took to his bed with a case of exerthaustion when Marge asked him to vacuum the upstairs hall.
Etymology:
Weetotaller
Created by: helanren
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Uncle Joe used to be a workaholic, but after thorough counselling he is now a healthy weetotaller
Etymology: obvious opposite of workaholic, mimicking the relation between t-totaller and alcoholic
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COMMENTS:
After some more thinking, I have decided weewowaller would be better. Totally incomprehensible I guess, but it sounds so much better! - helanren, 2006-12-14: 12:19:00
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Illazydaze
Created by: proArchy
Pronunciation: il-lay-zee-dayz
Sentence: Anytime I see the garbage overflowing i start to shiver and illazydaze, generally followed by blacking out
Etymology:
Lazypossumazidis
Created by: ltapilot
Pronunciation: lazy possum a** idis
Sentence: Andy Capps has a bad case of lazypossumidis.
Etymology:
Illude
Created by: vincent
Pronunciation: Ill-ood
Sentence: Unbeknownst to his mother, little Billy would illude his chores at every opportunity.
Etymology: Ill + Elude
