Verboticism: Rigormorvenience
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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Workermortis
Created by: Morganio
Pronunciation: worker-mort-iss
Sentence:
Etymology: From worker: a person who works and Mortis: Death, dying
Dishporia
Created by: lordelph
Pronunciation: dish-*pore*-ree-ah
Sentence: I'm afraid your husband has uncurable dishporia
Etymology: In the middle ages, the dish-poor were peasants flogged for failing to complete chores assigned by the lord of the manor. The Victorians contracted this to dishpor, with Charles Dickens popularising the use of "dishporia" in The Pickwick Papers.
Shirkolepsy
Created by: Sissyphus
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Meg had a shirkoleptic fit after the beer was gone and it was time to carry the boxes downstairs.
Etymology: shirk(avoid duty) + lepsy(seizure)
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COMMENTS:
Good Word Siss! - wordmeister, 2006-12-13: 13:39:00
First time user here. I have to say, after seeing this word, I can tell I'm in the big leagues. It's a beautiful funny word. - oxhead, 2006-12-13: 17:22:00
top word. Hits the nail on the head. - erasmus, 2006-12-18: 07:07:00
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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
Fakescape
Created by: ratibala
Pronunciation:
Sentence: My husband was fakescape at the site of me paying the bills.
Etymology:
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.
Laborcondria
Created by: gabngar
Pronunciation: Lay-bore-con-dree-uh
Sentence: Charley's laborcondria kicked in whenever he had to do his chores.
Etymology: Labor (work) + -condria (hypocondria)
