Verboticism: Theartofbullshit
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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Workaphobia
Created by: kckflpsk8r91
Pronunciation:
Sentence: I have such a terrible case of workaphobia that I once told my boss my entire family died to miss work.
Etymology:
Slobajob
Created by: scrabbelicious
Pronunciation: slob-a-job
Sentence: Uri was such a slobajob, well able to make a mess but incapable of cleaning one up.
Etymology: Messy recycling of 1) Slob, somebody who would live in the own excrement and 2) Bob-a-job, to do a small task in return for a reward, especially by boy scouts.
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COMMENTS:
I know a few slobajobs... But I refuse to clean up after them. (Actually I just pretend to refuse, because I can't stand the mess.) - jrogan, 2009-08-04: 07:21:00
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Lacksidasichondria
Created by: jeremiahbritt
Pronunciation: lahk-sih-daiz-ih-kon-dree-ah
Sentence: As I lay pinned under the armoire, I wished Jane's lacksidasichondria hadn't convinced her she had spontaneously generated lupus.
Etymology: lacksidasical + hyperchondria
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.
Labourpained
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: lay bor paynd
Sentence: Tony had always become labourpained when it was time to do the dishes or help with chores. Amazing how many of his afflictions were cured by a nap on the couch. His wife Nicole got the last laugh. After her surgery, she had the doctor send her home with a note declaring she could not do heavy housework like vacuuming or snow shovelling for the next five years...her spouse would need to take over those duties.
Etymology: Labour (work) & Pained (hurt or upset)
Exercispire
Created by: johnsto
Pronunciation: Exersi-spired
Sentence: Alice can't do it; she's exercispired.
Etymology: Exert (to do work) + expire (to die/end)
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COMMENTS:
im rubbish - johnsto, 2006-12-13: 07:29:00
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Idlitisis
Created by: ladyjd
Pronunciation: Eye/del/eye/tis/sis
Sentence: Suffering from idlitisis can be severly draining, especially for the rest of the family and work colleagues.
Etymology: idle:habitually doing nothing or avoiding work; -itis: Inflammation or disease of
Choreitus
Created by: GreatRandew
Pronunciation: Chore-Ite-us
Sentence: When Dad had was asked to do the dishes he had a sudden fit of choreitus
Etymology: From the English Word Chore and the English -itus a common extension for illnesses
