Verboticism: Laborophobia
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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Malachore
Created by: christoms
Pronunciation: Mal-ah-chore
Sentence: David was overcome with a sudden Malachore which caused him to feel faint when his mother told him to mow the lawn
Etymology: Mala as in Malady, for illness. chore, as in basic task
Aworkvoid
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: ah-werk-voyd
Sentence: Whenever big projects were on deck and his boss began to assign work, he began to plan his aworkvoid strategy. The next day he would announce to the team that he had strep throat, H1N1, and pneumonia all at once. Thus the 5 week absence began. Obviously when he came back to work all the projects were complete.
Etymology: avoid + work
Slackosis
Created by: sleep
Pronunciation: as it looks
Sentence: As Tom crawled into bed, he watched in horror as his wife had a slackotic siezure.
Etymology: slack + psychosis
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
Overgothigh
Created by: Yugoslav
Pronunciation: Pronounced in two ways: the first one is slow, soft: like somebody who say this has used some stuff, you know... Second way: fast, street-style, [Ovagothi'], Man!
Sentence: I was very overgothigh yesterday.
Etymology: Over Got High
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