Verboticism: Infecticide
DEFINITION: v. To be so hardworking and dedicated to your job that you come to work even when you're sick and dangerously infectious. n. A person who comes to work sneezing, coughing, contagious, and sick as a dog.
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Ailsperson
Created by: kirill
Pronunciation:
Sentence: I'd like to help you, but all all of our representatives are busy, except that one, but he's more of an ailsperson than a salesperson today.
Etymology: Ailment, as in an illness or disorder, and salesperson.
Achoorneyman
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: a choor nee man
Sentence: Rex Hale was a skilled carpenter. When he was on a project, nothing kept him from working, not even illness. His co-workers hated the fact that he was more achoorneyman than journeyman on those occasions.
Etymology: Achoo (sneeze noise) & Journeyman (a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft)
Sickmission
Created by: diyan627
Pronunciation: sik-mish-in
Sentence: John is under complete sickmission... His rationalization is that he's working at the hospital, what does it matter anyway?
Etymology: sick (ill) + mission (ambition-an inner calling to pursue an activity or perform a service) + submission (surrendering to the power of wanting to be the top dog)
Dahgerminator
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: duh-JERM-in-ayt-ehr
Sentence: A determined and dedicated worker, Alfonse would show up at work even when sick as a dog with serious ailments and his coworkers had given him the title 'Dahgerminator' since he often put other workers out of work on many occasions by spreading his germs.
Etymology: Dopey inference to The Terminator.
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COMMENTS:
Hasta La Visectomy, Baby! - Nosila, 2009-06-20: 11:36:00
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Occutagious
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: äkyəpājəs
Sentence: His dedication to his job means Phil will show up for work even when he is occupagious.
Etymology: occupation (a job or profession) + contagious (likely to transmit a disease)
Cohorker
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: co/hork/ur
Sentence: Spu Tum was a stalwart cohorker who never missed a day and left his mark on any work or worker he touched.
Etymology: co-worker + hork (as in hork up phlegm)
Contaminhater
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: kon tam in hay ter
Sentence: When Typhoid Mary at work got sick (often) she loved to share her misery...believing if she gave away her germs, she would be rid of them. I thought of her as the contaminhater, because she always made me sick!
Etymology: Contaminater (infectious;transmissable of diseases;septic) & Hate her (don't like her)
Sycophanatic
Created by: TJayzz
Pronunciation: Sikko-fan-a-tik
Sentence: Even though Jack had the worst bout of flu he had ever had in his life, nothing was going to stand in his way when it came to going to work. His workmates were not impressed and told him he was being sycophanatic, spreading his germs around the office.
Etymology: Syc(sick, not well) Sychophant(creeping in a servile way) Phanatic(fanatic, to be obsessed with something,ie going to work)
Stafflococky
Created by: Tigger
Pronunciation: /staf-luh-KOK-ee/ (like 'staphylococci')
Sentence: George really believed that the office couldn't function without him, so he came into work every day, even with a raging respiratory infection. He was so stafflococky that he infected everyone else in the office, and then he had to try to manage when they all called in sick. After several days of that, he threatened to resign because, he claimed, his co-workers were just a bunch of wimps. Also, he suspected that they were conspiring against him by using their sick days all at the same time, because they were jealous of his superior work ethic.
Etymology: Blend of: Staff (as in 'office staff') & Staphylococci - plural of staphylococcus, a variety of infectious bacteria (from Greek, staphyle "bunch of grapes" & modified Latin, coccus "spherical bacterium") & Cocky - overly self-assertive or arrogant (from Old English, cocc; nickname for "one who strutted like a cock")
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COMMENTS:
Great one! - pieceof314, 2008-05-07: 08:44:00
excellent - Jabberwocky, 2008-05-07: 11:38:00
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Cohorker
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: co/hork/ur
Sentence: Spu Tum was a stalwart cohorker who never missed a day and left his mark on any work or worker he touched.
Etymology: co-worker + hork (as in hork up phlegm)
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COMMENTS:
I've worked with him...good word! - Nosila, 2009-06-19: 13:05:00
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