Verboticism: Possumnation
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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Possumnation
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Antichoreactinarianism
Created by: NIDWU
Pronunciation: Anti-Chore-Act-in-ar-ee-a-nism
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Dormantosis
Created by: watts76
Pronunciation: door-man-toe-sis
Sentence:
Etymology: dormant = inactive, resting, hidden
Mortmentally
Created by: plushev
Pronunciation: Mort/ment/olli
Sentence:
Etymology: from mort and mentally
Mortifugaciousness
Created by: oxhead
Pronunciation: I think the two words, mortify and fugacious, flow well into each other
Sentence: He's suffering a bout of mortifugaciousness.
Etymology: Latin...mors, mort: death fugax > fugacious: temporary
Fuster
Created by: Acostell
Pronunciation: fuhstir
Sentence: He fustered fain he were to injure his back sweeping the kitchen.
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Sissysicko
Created by: BTornado14
Pronunciation: sis-e-SIC-ko
Sentence: Most people would call into work sick for a day of fun, but would fear being accused of being a sissysicko.
Etymology: a compound of sissy, someone who is not brave and sicko, a slang word meaning someone who is sick.
Lazochondria
Created by: parabasis
Pronunciation: lay-zoh-KAHN-dree-ah
Sentence: When his mom asked him to mow the lawn, Harold had a lazochondriatic bout of carpal tunnel.
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Scrubfreeze
Created by: mdschermer
Pronunciation: SCRUB-freeze
Sentence: After dinner, everyone spontaneously developed scrubfreeze - until I told them I had a dishwashing machine.
Etymology: to scrub + to freeze
Disemptrant
Created by: Divakar
Pronunciation: diss-EMP-trint
Sentence: John the slacker quickly became disemptrant when his girlfriend Jill asked him to clean the apartment.
Etymology: dis (not) + employer (french for "employ")
