Verboticism: Menagitis
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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Tempacitated
Created by: breaddough
Pronunciation: tem-pass-ih-tayted
Sentence: When the time came to take out the garbage, he always managed to become tempacitated for just enough time for someone else to do it.
Etymology: just look at the word
Lackowannadothatitis
Created by: HackMaster
Pronunciation: lack-O-wanna-do-that-itis
Sentence: When asked to wash the car, I suddenly experienced an onset of lackowannadothatitis.
Etymology:
Helpergenic
Created by: moggy
Pronunciation: Hell.Per.Jen.Ick.
Sentence: "I'm sorry I can't help you with the dishes - allergies you see?" "Oh, that's ok, these dishes are hypo-helpergenic!"
Etymology: From Help. Allergic. See? See?
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:
Choreaphobia
Created by: dahlea
Pronunciation: chore-a-phobia
Sentence: Dave's choreaphobia flared up when his wife asked for help with the dishes.
Etymology:
Hypershundriation
Created by: Rustkill
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Whenever he saw dirty dishes he began to experience hypershundriation.
Etymology: From hypochondria and shun.
Dismotionable
Created by: missparaguay1991
Pronunciation: /dismotionable/ like in english
Sentence: I yesterday asked my husband to built the furniture we bought, and he became absolutely dismotionable! -Is your new boyfriend dismotionable? -Not dismotionable at all!
Etymology: dismotionable (adj.) dis- from English 'disable' + motion- from O.French 'motion, from Latin 'motionem' + -able- siffix expressing fitness from Latin 'ibilis'
Absintose
Created by: theantiipod
Pronunciation: Ab-sin-tose
Sentence: Oh don't get all absintose on me just because I asked you to vacuum the stairs.
Etymology: Absent + sin (without) + comotose
