Verboticism: Lazerism
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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Gluttering
Created by: Anctus
Pronunciation: Glu/te/ring
Sentence: And once he was asked to clean the toilet he fell gluttering to the floor.
Etymology: Gluttony+loitering
Labore
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: lay bor
Sentence: After just a few months, Hilary discovered that her hubby, Bill, was a labore. When asked to do something minute, like vacuum or empty the dishwasher, he became ill, even in trying to summon the courage to follow his wife's instructions. The excuses were always alike..."My head hurts...I have a fever, Oh. my back...". but she felt the same as most women in her situation..."Wait till you go through childbirth before you tell me how much your body hurts..."
Etymology: Labor ( worker) & Bore (cause to be bored; tedious, so lacking in interest as to become bored)
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
Choreitis
Created by: Hilary
Pronunciation: "chore" + "itis". easy.
Sentence: Daddy will be fine, Emily. He's just caught another bout of choreitis.
Etymology:
Spurimalaiseria
Created by: erwalter
Pronunciation: spu·ri·ma·laise·ria
Sentence: Bobby's spurimalaiseria prevented him from taking his final exam and resulted in his falining out of college
Etymology: spurious + malaise + ria
Undignidied
Created by: crazytown
Pronunciation:
Sentence: After the cops found Joe's body, they concluded he had somehow undignidied sometime between cleaning his ears and clearing the table, or possibly doing both at the same time.
Etymology: