Verboticism: Taskphyxiate
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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Lacksidasichondria
Created by: jeremiahbritt
Pronunciation: lahk-sih-daiz-ih-kon-dree-ah
Sentence: As I lay pinned under the armoire, I wished Jane's lacksidasichondria hadn't convinced her she had spontaneously generated lupus.
Etymology: lacksidasical + hyperchondria
Choriosis
Created by: wniffene
Pronunciation: Chore-eo-sis
Sentence: When mom asked Billy to mow the lawn he developed a clear choriosis limp.
Etymology: Chore+Any disease that ends in osis.
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.
Overchored
Created by: loosepiece
Pronunciation:
Sentence: dave was 'overchored' when it came to doing the washing up.
Etymology:
Federlinely
Created by: Chistinalove
Pronunciation: Federline (like in Kevin Federline) with a "lee" at the end. Federlinely.
Sentence: I felt Federlinely at the thought of rearranging my house by myself.
Etymology: Britney Spears husband is Keven Federline ... he acts Federlinely whenever he doesn't want to do something. Therefore Federlinely's definition is what it is.
Temporaryunsanitary
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: tehm/por/ary/un/san/ti/ari
Sentence: Whenever there were chores to be done, he was overcome by temporaryunsanitary.
Etymology: temporary + insanity + sanitary
Shirkitis
Created by: warped
Pronunciation: sherk-EYE-tiss
Sentence: Bob came down with a sudden case of shirkitis when he heard the sound of the vacuum cleaner.
Etymology: "shirk" (to evade work) + "-itis" (suffix used in pathological terms that denotes an inflamation of organs
Schlepoplexy
Created by: isopraxis
Pronunciation: schlep Oh plexee
Sentence: The task of filling a thousand sandbags is enough to give a guy a bad case of schlepoplexy.
Etymology:
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COMMENTS:
- isopraxis, 2006-12-14: 00:05:00
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