Verboticism: Chorabilism
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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Disarbeitation
Created by: chofu67
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Etymology: From the German - "Arbeit", meaning work.
Laziitis
Created by: lucyof2009
Pronunciation: lazy-itis
Sentence: Sorry boss, I can't come to work today; I have laziitis.
Etymology: Combination of the word lazy and the suffix "itis" which usually describes a disease.
Lazividy
Created by: ubgrud
Pronunciation: lay-ziff-ity
Sentence: We were supposed to do some springcleaning on the weekend, but were overcome by lazividy.
Etymology: lazy levidity
Vigormortis
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: vig-er-mawr-tis
Sentence: Tony is an active, if slightly paunchy, dad. He plays with the kids. He even rides his bike a couple days a week. A strange affliction hits him when household chores are mentioned. He immediately comes down with acute vigormortis, a condition where all energy drains from his body to the point that he can barely lift a finger. The cure comes as quickly as it manifests as soon as the chore is complete or even assigned to someone else.
Etymology: vigor (healthy physical or mental energy or power; vitality) + rigor mortis (the stiffening of the body after death)
Possumate
Created by: tripandahalf
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COMMENTS:
I possumated when I saw I had to add a comment. - tripandahalf, 2006-12-13: 22:33:00
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Chorilipsy
Created by: carlcollins
Pronunciation: chore-i-lip-sy
Sentence: Everytime its time to clean the bathroom she goes into a choriliptic fit.
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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.
Fatalysis
Created by: Adamm
Pronunciation: Fay-tal-iss-iss
Sentence: "My brother comes over with a bout of Fatalysis at the mere sight of a dishcloth."
Etymology: A fusion of the words Fatal and Paralysis, as the "victim" becomes paralysed to such an extreme that a fatality is sometimes believed to have occoured.
