Verboticism: Workumvent
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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Laboralyze
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: ley-BOR-uh-Lahyz \lA-"bOr-&-'lIz\
Sentence: The company decided to replace "sick days" with "incidental time-off days" to reduce employee laboralizing.
Etymology: labor from English "labor" + alyze from English "paralyze"
Disarbeitation
Created by: chofu67
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Etymology: From the German - "Arbeit", meaning work.
Grandmalaise
Created by: xcruser88x
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Sentence: Struck suddenly by grandmalaise, Mike dropped to his knees in front of the dirty laundry.
Etymology: Grand Mal + Malaise
Workphobia
Created by: xklamation
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Etymology: (english)work+(greek)phobia
Dodgeapossum
Created by: BrakX
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Etymology: Dodge (or skip outta) + possum (like playin possum)
Chorepox
Created by: lela2210
Pronunciation: chorh-poks
Sentence: He would have helped with the ironing, but he was struck by a crippling yet strangely short lived case of chorepox.
Etymology: chore: A small or odd job pox: A disease characterised by multiple skin pustules
Procrastiphilia
Created by: Drock
Pronunciation: pro-cras-ta-FIL-ee-uh
Sentence: When Bobby heard his mother ask him to clean his room, he felt another wave of procrastiphilia come on.
Etymology: Procrastination - to put something off. -philia - a positive feeling of liking
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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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
