Verboticism: Dahgerminator
DEFINITION: v. To be so hardworking and dedicated to your job that you come to work even when you're sick and dangerously infectious. n. A person who comes to work sneezing, coughing, contagious, and sick as a dog.
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Jobsicksess
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: job/sick/sess
Sentence: John comes to work no matter his illness. To his co-workers, John's jobsicksess means they'll probably catch some contagious cold, or disease from him.
Etymology: job + sick + obsess; j + obsess = jobsess + sick = jobsicksess
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COMMENTS:
not to mention job success - petaj, 2008-05-08: 05:33:00
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Typephoidmary
Created by: bookowl
Pronunciation: tipe/foyd/mary
Sentence: Typephoidmary is the office manager and spreads her germs to every corner of the office.
Etymology: Typhoid Mary + type
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COMMENTS:
Very clever. - Tigger, 2008-05-07: 22:15:00
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Sneezebucket
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: sneez-BUHK-it
Sentence: SNEEZEBUCKET n A disgusting, self-centred co-worker who, when suffering from a contagious illness, refuses to leave the office and stay at home until better. Coughing, spluttering and sneezing, he suffers from the delusion that his work-ethic is much stronger than that of his colleagues, and that his importance to the organization is far greater than that of theirs also.
Etymology: Sneeze & bucket. If he's a sleazebucket to boot - look out!
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COMMENTS:
I'm sitting close to one right now - Jabberwocky, 2008-05-07: 11:49:00
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Staphstaff
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: stafstaf
Sentence: Betty works in an office where they are very careful to categorize workers into specific workgroups. Nobody is supposed to or allowed do work that isn't in their job description. Betty has her own categories for people who insist on coming to work despite being ill. The biggest group is the flucrew. The bunch she works hardest to avoid is the staphstaff.
Etymology: staph (a bacterium of a genus that includes many pathogenic kinds that cause pus formation, esp. in the skin and mucous membranes) + staff (all the people employed by a particular organization)
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COMMENTS:
very creative - Jabberwocky, 2009-06-19: 13:41:00
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Colleaugie
Created by: stache
Pronunciation: kŏl'ŏŏg'ē
Sentence: Barton was nothing but a colleaugie; he sneezed as he entered Martina's cubicle, and his hand was too late to block the greenish projectile that splattered onto the far partition.
Etymology: Colleague who produces (or "horks") loogies.
Deadicated
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: ded ick ay ted
Sentence: He was so deadicated he to emptying ths in-tray, that he managed to clear out the entire department as well
Etymology: dedicated, dead
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COMMENTS:
With enough deadication you can continue to work after you die. Sort of a coasting effect. - artr, 2010-07-08: 11:57:00
Deadicated...that's why they call computers "terminals"! - Nosila, 2010-07-09: 00:35:00
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Germployee
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: jurm ploy ee
Sentence: Peter was well on his way to becoming Germployee of the Month. He regularly came in to work, when he should have stayed in his sick bed. The more contagious he was, the more hours he would expose his co-workers to his nasty virulent bacterium. If he just once stayed home when he felt this way, office absenteeism would plummet. His new nickname was Peter Pandemic.
Etymology: Germ (a minute life form (especially a disease-causing bacterium) & Employee (a worker who is hired to perform a job)
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COMMENTS:
funny - love Peter Pandemic - Jabberwocky, 2009-06-19: 13:40:00
Clever - Mustang, 2009-06-20: 05:58:00
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Infedicated
Created by: DankJemo
Pronunciation:
Sentence:
Etymology:
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COMMENTS:
like where this is going - Jabberwocky, 2008-05-07: 11:45:00
I'm guessing the etymology is something like: infected + dedicated. DankJemo, did you know you get more points for including the pronunciation, sentence and etymology? Plus, you may get more votes too. - Tigger, 2008-05-07: 22:10:00
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Illdustrious
Created by: arrrteest
Pronunciation: ill-dus-tree-us
Sentence: Phil was a snotbucket that overfloweth. Still, he came to work and was an illdustrious little bee that paid no attention to whom he sneezed on or on what he wiped his moist and slimy hands.
Etymology: ill, sick + industrious, hard-working
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Dedillcation
Created by: Rutilus
Pronunciation: ded-ill-cay-shun
Sentence: Clark considered himself to be the office superman, always dragging himself to work no matter how lousy he felt. However, whilst noble by itself, his overwheming dedillcation to the company was causing the rest of the staff to drop like flies.
Etymology: Dedication - commitment to another; ill - sick, poorly
