Verboticism: Workphobia
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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Skivitis
Created by: Bulletchewer
Pronunciation: sky-vy-tus
Sentence: Ironing is impossible for sufferers of skivitis.
Etymology: From "skive" which means to dodge work or skip school.
Mortachore
Created by: Lonflobber
Pronunciation: Mort-a-chore-ay
Sentence: Donald was suffering from an acute case of mortachore due to his wife's incessant nagging.
Etymology: "Morte"from the Italian for death, and "chore", a routine task
Koshmar
Created by: Gurova
Pronunciation: kash/ma
Sentence: Daddy is koshmared
Etymology:
Suilly
Created by: Fittefisk
Pronunciation:
Sentence: I'd rather be suilly!
Etymology:
Workaphobia
Created by: kckflpsk8r91
Pronunciation:
Sentence: I have such a terrible case of workaphobia that I once told my boss my entire family died to miss work.
Etymology:
Taskaphobiysim
Created by: stormee
Pronunciation: task-a-foebee-ism
Sentence: Her husband had a sudden attack of taskaphoiyism when it came time to mow the lawn.
Etymology: A sudden illness related to task related work.
Workolepsy
Created by: Wriiight
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
Andycapped
Created by: Thunderfoot
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Whenever Doris asks Jim to do anything during Monday Night Football, Jim suddenly becomes andycapped.
Etymology: From the cartoon character Andy Capp, who is a lazy, unmotivated drunkard.
