Verboticism: Chorolepsy
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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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
Labourcede
Created by: Kevcom2007
Pronunciation: lay/bour/seed
Sentence: Daddy Joe had a severe case of labourcede when it came time to do simple household chores, like getting off the couch and doing the dishes.
Etymology: labour + cede (surrender)
Scrubfreeze
Created by: mdschermer
Pronunciation: SCRUB-freeze
Sentence: After dinner, everyone spontaneously developed scrubfreeze - until I told them I had a dishwashing machine.
Etymology: to scrub + to freeze
Vigormortis
Created by: boywondernyc
Pronunciation: viggerMORtiss
Sentence: Tom was overcome with VIGORMORTIS whenever asked to do anything strenuous.
Etymology:
Nowantism
Created by: MrOliver
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Tracy's acute nowantism prevented her from washing the dishes.
Etymology:
Shwirk
Created by: ipswich78
Pronunciation: As it sounds
Sentence: He's just shwirking again...
Etymology: Combination of Shirk and work.
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COMMENTS:
Hey Ipswich78: Good word! I'm voting for it! - wordmeister, 2006-12-13: 13:38:00
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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
Spontyrigor
Created by: solsticesword
Pronunciation: sponte-rigor
Sentence: The man succumed to spontyrigor with a sudden fit of coughs.
Etymology: From spontanious meaning unexpected and rigor mortise, a phase of death.
Fauxsthumous
Created by: talius
Pronunciation: Foe-stu-mus
Sentence:
Etymology: faux-fake posthumous-after death
