Verboticism: Chorlapse
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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Husbandishry
Created by: AcidPhysx
Pronunciation: hus-ban-dish-ree
Sentence: Where did that lazy bastard go? I asked him to take out the garbage! It's just his husbandishry acting up again
Etymology: From husband
Lazypossumazidis
Created by: ltapilot
Pronunciation: lazy possum a** idis
Sentence: Andy Capps has a bad case of lazypossumidis.
Etymology:
Shmurg
Created by: tpm01
Pronunciation:
Sentence: The son didn't want to mow the grass for his father so he decided to shmurg and have to stay on the couch all day.
Etymology:
Mortivoid
Created by: grant0
Pronunciation: Mort-i-void
Sentence: "Oh not again! Joe's mortivoiding taking out the trash."
Etymology: From "morti-" meaning dead (as in mortician) and void from "avoid".
Responsibitis
Created by: hugecranium
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Carl came down with a severe case of responsibitis when asked to take out the trash.
Etymology: My cat said it the other day.
Impossumate
Created by: coinstar
Pronunciation: im-pau-sum-ate (v); see also impossumator, impossumation
Sentence: "Forged over decades of daily performances -- whenever anything needed to get done -- Larry's impossumation skills were legendary throughout the entended family."
Etymology: Active rather than passive verb (defintion should be clarified), from the Latin noun "possuma", an intentional role or affectation based on the unique fight-or-flight behavior of the North American marsupial, the opossum.
Hypershundriation
Created by: Rustkill
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Whenever he saw dirty dishes he began to experience hypershundriation.
Etymology: From hypochondria and shun.