Verboticism: Ahandypox
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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Menagitis
Created by: sweetclarity
Pronunciation: m-eh-n-ah-j-eye-t-ih-s.
Sentence: "I have some bad news: it's menagitis."
Etymology: from the French "menage", meaning "household chores" & the dead language "itis", meaning "sickness". The resemblance to "meningitis" is completely uncoincidental.
Tempacitated
Created by: breaddough
Pronunciation: tem-pass-ih-tayted
Sentence: When the time came to take out the garbage, he always managed to become tempacitated for just enough time for someone else to do it.
Etymology: just look at the word
Choreitosis
Created by: ipmcleod
Pronunciation: CHORR-i-toe-sis
Sentence: A sudden strain of choreitosis afflicted my friends that weekend, so I moved myself
Etymology: Choreit, from the Ruritanian cho-rit, meaning nothing, and osis, from the Ruritanian ohcys, meaning good for.
Shirkaholic
Created by: haroldbarold
Pronunciation: shurk-uh-hall-ick (rhymes with workaholic)
Sentence: Daddy was too drunk to make the weekly Shirkaholics Anonymous meeting yet again.
Etymology: shirk + aholic from "workaholic"
Hypershundriation
Created by: Rustkill
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Whenever he saw dirty dishes he began to experience hypershundriation.
Etymology: From hypochondria and shun.
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
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
Aworkvoid
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: ah-werk-voyd
Sentence: Whenever big projects were on deck and his boss began to assign work, he began to plan his aworkvoid strategy. The next day he would announce to the team that he had strep throat, H1N1, and pneumonia all at once. Thus the 5 week absence began. Obviously when he came back to work all the projects were complete.
Etymology: avoid + work
