Verboticism: Ergasm
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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Slackpawed
Created by: chale
Pronunciation:
Sentence: My dad fell slackpawed to the floor when he saw the vacuum cleaner.
Etymology:
Workolepsy
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: work/o/lep/sy (long o sound in second syllable)
Sentence: When things need to be done you can count on his workolepsy disorder to kick in.
Etymology: work + narcolepsy
Flegate
Created by: currentlyinsolitude
Pronunciation: fli-gate
Sentence: When asked to sweep the floor, Jon flegated, and had to be rushed to the hospital.
Etymology: German
Vigormortis
Created by: zwillinger
Pronunciation: viggerMORtiss
Sentence: Tom was overcome with VIGORMORTIS whenever asked to do anything strenuous.
Etymology:
Exertiontosis
Created by: logan260
Pronunciation: ex-ur-shun-to-sis
Sentence: your dad is suffering from exertiontosis again but he should be feeling better after we clean the house.
Etymology: exertion: to expend energy performing a task. tosis: suffix for physical afflictions.
Slobajob
Created by: scrabbelicious
Pronunciation: slob-a-job
Sentence: Uri was such a slobajob, well able to make a mess but incapable of cleaning one up.
Etymology: Messy recycling of 1) Slob, somebody who would live in the own excrement and 2) Bob-a-job, to do a small task in return for a reward, especially by boy scouts.
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COMMENTS:
I know a few slobajobs... But I refuse to clean up after them. (Actually I just pretend to refuse, because I can't stand the mess.) - jrogan, 2009-08-04: 07:21:00
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Necrochoria
Created by: Stinah
Pronunciation: neck-crow-chore-ee-yah
Sentence: Dan suffered a severe case of necrochoria, and thus took preventive measures to ensure that he was always out of the room when dinner's done and dusted, and the dirty dishes sat there leeringly.
Etymology:
Laxanthropy
Created by: whimsy
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Marie was conveniently overwhelmed by a case of laxanthropy when it came time to clean up after the party.
Etymology:
Laborophobia
Created by: johnnyrockett
Pronunciation: Lay-boar-o-fo-bee-a
Sentence: The moment he heard the vacuum cleaner, he felt laborophobic.
Etymology: Combination of Labor (work) and phobia (an unrealistic fear.)
