Verboticism: Shillness
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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Slothophrenia
Created by: IHeartKiwiTarts
Pronunciation: " Slaw-tho-frenia"
Sentence: A victim of slothophrenia, when introduced to any type of household chore, may exhibit signs of extreme anxiety, mental distress and or death.
Etymology: from the greek Slothocus dethacus
Emplochondriac
Created by: Guthlaf1
Pronunciation: EM-plo-CHON-dree-ak
Sentence: Robert had a recurring problem - his emplochondriac tendencies surfaced every summer.
Etymology: emplo - from Latin 'implicari', to be involved chondria - from ancient Sumerian, to be conning yourself
Feignt
Created by: dkrider
Pronunciation:
Sentence:
Etymology: Feign + Faint = Feignt
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COMMENTS:
- dkrider, 2006-12-13: 23:33:00
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Taskophobia
Created by: iceburgamy
Pronunciation: tas-co-FO-be-ah
Sentence: taskophobia struck as soon as dishes were mentioned.
Etymology: task, -phobia
Koshmar
Created by: Gurova
Pronunciation: kash/ma
Sentence: Daddy is koshmared
Etymology:
Lazypossumazidis
Created by: ltapilot
Pronunciation: lazy possum a** idis
Sentence: Andy Capps has a bad case of lazypossumidis.
Etymology:
Choreshirking
Created by: matkline
Pronunciation: Just as it is spelled.
Sentence: "I'm so sick of James' choreshirking - I think I want a divorce."
Etymology: Portmanteau of chore and shirk.
Chorlergy
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: chore-ler-gy
Sentence: Marvin had a terrible chorlergy. Paint made him break out in a rash, dust gave him hives, his toolbox gave him a collapsed spine and detergent was like kryptonite to his system.
Etymology: chore: tedious household task + allergy: a high sensitivity to certain substances that make the sufferer sneeze, break out in a rash or, in extreme cases, have to be rushed to the hospitalwith anaphalactic shock
