Verboticism: Ergotoxication
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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Gluttering
Created by: Anctus
Pronunciation: Glu/te/ring
Sentence: And once he was asked to clean the toilet he fell gluttering to the floor.
Etymology: Gluttony+loitering
Selfishia
Created by: Pyrophyle
Pronunciation: Sell-Fish-IA
Sentence: You won't believe what happened to me last week. I came down with selfishia when my roomates wanted me to help them clean the house.
Etymology:
Narcavoidolepsy
Created by: robynlicious
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Sorry I couldn't set the table for dinner, but I had a wave of Narcavoidolepsy hit me so hard that I didn't think I'd even wake up to eat.
Etymology:
Hypacleaniac
Created by: kimbo123
Pronunciation:
Sentence: He's always sick when there is work to be done. He's a hypacleaniac.
Etymology:
Falstubbornazy
Created by: paperpieces
Pronunciation: Fal-stuh-born-nay-zee
Sentence: I don't know if I can go out tonight, I have a lot of work to do, I could falstubbornaze and sneak out?
Etymology: Fal- meaning false, stubborn meaning selfish, -azy from lazy.
Idlitisis
Created by: ladyjd
Pronunciation: Eye/del/eye/tis/sis
Sentence: Suffering from idlitisis can be severly draining, especially for the rest of the family and work colleagues.
Etymology: idle:habitually doing nothing or avoiding work; -itis: Inflammation or disease of
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.
