Verboticism: Psychosomavoidance
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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Possumize
Created by: red11385
Pronunciation: poss-uhm-ize
Sentence: Dad possimized when asked to mow the lawn, but miraculously recovered when his buddy asked him to the football game.
Etymology:
Skivitis
Created by: Bulletchewer
Pronunciation: sky-vy-tus
Sentence: Ironing is impossible for sufferers of skivitis.
Etymology: From "skive" which means to dodge work or skip school.
Workolepsy
Created by: taburasa
Pronunciation: work/o/lep/sy (long o sound in second syllable)
Sentence: When things need to be done you can count on his workolepsy disorder to kick in.
Etymology: work + narcolepsy
Narcotasky
Created by: librarian
Pronunciation: nar'co-tasky
Sentence:
Etymology: narcolepsy + tasks
Aworkvoid
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: ah-werk-voyd
Sentence: Whenever big projects were on deck and his boss began to assign work, he began to plan his aworkvoid strategy. The next day he would announce to the team that he had strep throat, H1N1, and pneumonia all at once. Thus the 5 week absence began. Obviously when he came back to work all the projects were complete.
Etymology: avoid + work
Hypacleaniac
Created by: kimbo123
Pronunciation:
Sentence: He's always sick when there is work to be done. He's a hypacleaniac.
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Slackmaster
Created by: moltentim
Pronunciation: slak/mas/ter
Sentence: Mary's husband avoids work like a slackmaster.
Etymology: Of relation to a couch potato
Absintose
Created by: theantiipod
Pronunciation: Ab-sin-tose
Sentence: Oh don't get all absintose on me just because I asked you to vacuum the stairs.
Etymology: Absent + sin (without) + comotose
Illazydaze
Created by: proArchy
Pronunciation: il-lay-zee-dayz
Sentence: Anytime I see the garbage overflowing i start to shiver and illazydaze, generally followed by blacking out
Etymology:
Napendicitis
Created by: sfts2
Pronunciation: na-pen-di-ci-tus
Sentence: I have a chronic case of napendicitis
Etymology: