Verboticism: Possumize
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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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.
Chorepox
Created by: lela2210
Pronunciation: chorh-poks
Sentence: He would have helped with the ironing, but he was struck by a crippling yet strangely short lived case of chorepox.
Etymology: chore: A small or odd job pox: A disease characterised by multiple skin pustules
Dutophasia
Created by: doogman
Pronunciation: doo-toe-fay-shah
Sentence: When asked to clean up the cat's vomit, George suddenly collapsed from dutophasia.
Etymology: From that Latin 'Duto' (work) and Phasia (illness)
Ergotoxication
Created by: mugwai
Pronunciation:
Sentence:
Etymology: latin work(ergo)poison(toxica)
Disemptrant
Created by: Divakar
Pronunciation: diss-EMP-trint
Sentence: John the slacker quickly became disemptrant when his girlfriend Jill asked him to clean the apartment.
Etymology: dis (not) + employer (french for "employ")
Couchhusband
Created by: memexikon
Pronunciation: cowch huz bund
Sentence: The couchhusband felt no guilt as the years passed & the dishes were washed without him.
Etymology: couch + husband
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COMMENTS:
http://neologisms.us - memexikon, 2006-12-13: 23:52:00
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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.
