Verboticism: Ditchitis
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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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
Slackochondria
Created by: thewbert
Pronunciation:
Sentence: After our driveway was buried in 6 feet of snow, I was suddenly overcome with a bad case of slackochondria.
Etymology:
Helpingitis
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: hellp - in - ji - tiss
Sentence: Lawrence was suddenly struck with a severe case of helpingitis when Marjorie asked him to help wit the dishes. He became unable to get off the couch or stand up for about 45 minutes.
Etymology: help, meningitis (an infection of the membranes that surround the brain and spinal cord)
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COMMENTS:
They should call that dish detergent Palm-No-Live! - Nosila, 2009-08-03: 22:59:00
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Helpochondriac
Created by: john621
Pronunciation: help-o-kon-dree-ak
Sentence: Everytime the lawn needs mowing you get a new disease, I think you're making it up you helpochondriac.
Etymology:
Celaboraeger
Created by: Geekazoid
Pronunciation: hard c pronounce ke lAbor Ager (capitals are long vowels)
Sentence: I'm such a celaboraeger that when my mom wants me to do chores i pretend i'm dead
Etymology: noun verb is celaboraeging comes from the latin words cela : to hide laborat: to work aeger: to be sick
Excusident
Created by: Peppie
Pronunciation: ik-'skyü-z&-dent
Sentence: Janet had an excusident when her mother asked her to vacuum the room.
Etymology: Having an accident to be excused from something. Excused, accident, excusident.
Spontyrigor
Created by: solsticesword
Pronunciation: sponte-rigor
Sentence: The man succumed to spontyrigor with a sudden fit of coughs.
Etymology: From spontanious meaning unexpected and rigor mortise, a phase of death.
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
Workumvent
Created by: Shlub
Pronunciation: Were - come - vent
Sentence: "I think I'll workumvent this week's shipping reports," thought John as he positioned the saw above his hand.
Etymology:
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COMMENTS:
Good sentence Shlub -- Funny! And frightenly true... - wordmeister, 2006-12-13: 13:46:00
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