Verboticism: Plamting
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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Disemptrant
Created by: Divakar
Pronunciation: diss-EMP-trint
Sentence: John the slacker quickly became disemptrant when his girlfriend Jill asked him to clean the apartment.
Etymology: dis (not) + employer (french for "employ")
Maturaphobia
Created by: jonique
Pronunciation: maturaphobia (ma*chur*a*fob*ee*a)
Sentence: Daddy forgot to pick me up from school due to his maturaphobia.
Etymology: maturaphobia stems from the word "mature", which is to grow and learn over a certain time period, and the word "phobia", which is to fear something. These two words together create "a fear of maturity or maturing"
Lazydeath
Created by: chrisk2k7
Pronunciation: lay - zee - deh - th
Sentence: her husband was severly suffering from lazydeath
Etymology: lazy + death
Impossum
Created by: Trystera
Pronunciation: im-PAHS-some
Sentence: Shortly after Sarah asked Bernard to mow the lawn, she found him bedridden, playing impossum.
Etymology: Possum: Latin verb meaning "to be able" Im-: prefix meaning "not" "playing possum" : a defensive tactic of pretending to be dead so that predators have no interest in attacking
Lazypossumazidis
Created by: ltapilot
Pronunciation: lazy possum a** idis
Sentence: Andy Capps has a bad case of lazypossumidis.
Etymology:
Mortifugaciousness
Created by: oxhead
Pronunciation: I think the two words, mortify and fugacious, flow well into each other
Sentence: He's suffering a bout of mortifugaciousness.
Etymology: Latin...mors, mort: death fugax > fugacious: temporary
Idlitisis
Created by: ladyjd
Pronunciation: Eye/del/eye/tis/sis
Sentence: Suffering from idlitisis can be severly draining, especially for the rest of the family and work colleagues.
Etymology: idle:habitually doing nothing or avoiding work; -itis: Inflammation or disease of
