Verboticism: Giroholic
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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Effortaphobia
Created by: babel
Pronunciation: ef-fort-a-pho-bee-a
Sentence: Billy always felt a sudden rush of effortaphobia whenever the ironing board was near.
Etymology: effort + phobia
Choreshirking
Created by: matkline
Pronunciation: Just as it is spelled.
Sentence: "I'm so sick of James' choreshirking - I think I want a divorce."
Etymology: Portmanteau of chore and shirk.
Taskoidance
Created by: Ahoytheship
Pronunciation: Task-oy-dance
Sentence: He was sure to fall victim to taskoidance when he had to take out the trash.
Etymology: Task+Avoidance
Lurgy
Created by: CrimsonAngel666
Pronunciation: lur-gee
Sentence: Suddenly, John lurgied all over the floor at the mention of laundry.
Etymology:
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
Temporamortis
Created by: Jewlicious
Pronunciation: TEM pruh mohr tis
Sentence: I had a bout of temporamortis earlier today, but I should be fine now.
Etymology: From the latin root temp- for time and mortis for death
Unreworcoleptic
Created by: Windyo
Pronunciation: Un/weur/ko/lep/tic
Sentence: This person in unreworkoleptic... He can't even hear of unrewarding activites without fainting.
Etymology: Base of "un", mixed with "work" arranged with a C rather than a K, and "leptic" comes from "narcoleptic" ^^
Possumnation
Created by: DIKIDI
Pronunciation: pah-sum-NA-shun
Sentence: possumnation always strikes my children right at room cleaning time.
Etymology:
Incapoopitated
Created by: DaddyNewt
Pronunciation:
Sentence: I was unable to carry the groceries because I was incapoopitated.
Etymology: incapacited + pooped
