Verboticism: Hypershundriation
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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Chorecoma
Created by: misterdoug
Pronunciation: 'chor kO-m&
Sentence: ...
Etymology: ...
Impossumate
Created by: coinstar
Pronunciation: im-pau-sum-ate (v); see also impossumator, impossumation
Sentence: "Forged over decades of daily performances -- whenever anything needed to get done -- Larry's impossumation skills were legendary throughout the entended family."
Etymology: Active rather than passive verb (defintion should be clarified), from the Latin noun "possuma", an intentional role or affectation based on the unique fight-or-flight behavior of the North American marsupial, the opossum.
Slumpitis
Created by: munky
Pronunciation:
Sentence: anthony was overcome with acute slumpitis at the sound of the finish of the dishwasher cycle.
Etymology:
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" ^^
Ahandypox
Created by: oohisay
Pronunciation: a-handy-pox
Sentence: When asked to lend a hand with the deck building, Roger was stricken with a bout of ahandypox.
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Lazipossumate
Created by: lennyjaxn
Pronunciation: Ley-zee-POS-uh-meyt
Sentence: The request of Mrs. Johnson for her husband to clean out the garage caused the unfortunate man to lazipossumate until she left.
Etymology: From the low German lasich - languid, and American Indian opposum - he who plays dead
Lazilepsy
Created by: walkingdistraction
Pronunciation: laze-i-leps-ie
Sentence: His bizarre condition, lazilepsy, has caused him to miss work for 3 days this week.
Etymology: lazy+epilepsy
Deastrical
Created by: Computergeek
Pronunciation: D-As-trickle
Sentence: The boy was deastrical when it came to doing his homework.
Etymology: