Verboticism: Spurimalaiseria
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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Workermortis
Created by: Morganio
Pronunciation: worker-mort-iss
Sentence:
Etymology: From worker: a person who works and Mortis: Death, dying
Malaze
Created by: neruka
Pronunciation: Muh-laze
Sentence: The quick, brown fox jumped over the malazin' dog
Etymology: Malaise + Laze
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
Slackochondria
Created by: thewbert
Pronunciation:
Sentence: After our driveway was buried in 6 feet of snow, I was suddenly overcome with a bad case of slackochondria.
Etymology:
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.
Chronicworkapation
Created by: ChrisCarrk
Pronunciation: kronik-work-ah-pay-shun
Sentence: Suddenly, Bob had an attack of chronicworkapation and fell down to the floor!
Etymology: chronic + work
Procrastindie
Created by: bortman
Pronunciation: pro-CRAS-tin-die
Sentence: Daddy procrastindied when mommy asked him to do the dishes.
Etymology:
Ahandypox
Created by: oohisay
Pronunciation: a-handy-pox
Sentence: When asked to lend a hand with the deck building, Roger was stricken with a bout of ahandypox.
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