Verboticism: Pretendie
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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Hypacleaniac
Created by: kimbo123
Pronunciation:
Sentence: He's always sick when there is work to be done. He's a hypacleaniac.
Etymology:
Suddenslacker
Created by: exmugger
Pronunciation: sudden-slack-er
Sentence: When ask to clean the room, chole turned suddenslacker and dropped to the floor.
Etymology: sudden + slacker
Comapose
Created by: jrogan
Pronunciation: koh-ma-poz
Sentence: Mitchell would go completely comapose whenever his wife asked him to do any chores around the house. This was relatively benign, until one day when they were driving home from cottage, and his wife thoughtlessly asked him if he could cut the grass when they got back to the city. He had just pulled into the passing lane, when he lost consciousness...
Etymology: comatose + pose (i.e. fake posture, stand still and do nothing)
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COMMENTS:
A Coma-ly word indeed! - Nosila, 2009-08-03: 22:58:00
great work, jrogan....you get my vote. - mweinmann, 2009-08-04: 07:34:00
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Cantbearseditis
Created by: LordJono
Pronunciation: Can't-be-arsed-itis
Sentence: John had lots of work to do, but was struck down with a terminal case of cantbearseditis
Etymology: The feeling of 'can't be arsed' as a potentially contagious disease.
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
Ditchitis
Created by: quippingqueen
Pronunciation: dich/i/tis
Sentence: Thankfully, a severe attack of "Ditchitis" happened to prevent him from having to clean out the platypus pond bowl, mend his well-worn long-johns, and fix a broken teapot for his spouse.
Etymology: ditch: duck or avoid at all costs + itis: a disease of convenience
Ergasm
Created by: wattoo
Pronunciation:
Sentence: When his wife asked him to mow the lawn, he ergasmed all over the floor.
Etymology: A combination of ergo (meaning work) and asm mfron spasm.
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.
Etymology:
