Verboticism: Napendicitis
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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Flunched
Created by: frobro808
Pronunciation:
Sentence: i'm flunched! i don't think i can make it to work today.
Etymology:
Nowantism
Created by: MrOliver
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Tracy's acute nowantism prevented her from washing the dishes.
Etymology:
Hypolethargiac
Created by: misnomer
Pronunciation: Hi/po/le/thar/gee/ak
Sentence: The man was a hypolethargiac; the thought of visiting his in-laws caused George to come down suddenly with a very serious case of some obscure affliction.
Etymology: Hypochondriac; lethargy.
Workolepsy
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: work/o/lep/sy (long o sound in second syllable)
Sentence: When things need to be done you can count on his workolepsy disorder to kick in.
Etymology: work + narcolepsy
Effortaphobia
Created by: babel
Pronunciation: ef-fort-a-pho-bee-a
Sentence: Billy always felt a sudden rush of effortaphobia whenever the ironing board was near.
Etymology: effort + phobia
Skiveitis
Created by: erasmus
Pronunciation: sky vie tis
Sentence: he suffered from excessive skiveitis, we couldnt get him to do any work.
Etymology: to skive is an english way to avoid work.
Chorolepsy
Created by: cataath
Pronunciation: Chore-o-lep-see
Sentence: Dad has chorolepsy, I can't wake him up!
Etymology: Chore - work around the house olepsy - last part of narcolepsy. ;)