Verboticism: Taskaphobiysim
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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Schlepoplexy
Created by: isopraxis
Pronunciation: schlep Oh plexee
Sentence: The task of filling a thousand sandbags is enough to give a guy a bad case of schlepoplexy.
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- isopraxis, 2006-12-14: 00:05:00
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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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Taskaphobiysim
Created by: stormee
Pronunciation: task-a-foebee-ism
Sentence: Her husband had a sudden attack of taskaphoiyism when it came time to mow the lawn.
Etymology: A sudden illness related to task related work.
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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
Disarbeitation
Created by: chofu67
Pronunciation:
Sentence:
Etymology: From the German - "Arbeit", meaning work.
Disactivia
Created by: danboaz
Pronunciation: dis-act-ivia
Sentence: Harold, afflicted with disactivia, was misunderstood even by his own family. He has been unemployed since '86 after his co-workers threated to walk-out if he was not going to be held accountable for not doing his share of taking the garbage out.
Etymology: dis: not + active
Impossum
Created by: Trystera
Pronunciation: im-PAHS-some
Sentence: Shortly after Sarah asked Bernard to mow the lawn, she found him bedridden, playing impossum.
Etymology: Possum: Latin verb meaning "to be able" Im-: prefix meaning "not" "playing possum" : a defensive tactic of pretending to be dead so that predators have no interest in attacking
Diedling
Created by: widget
Pronunciation: D'idling
Sentence: Whenever he was asked to help he would always found to be diedling
Etymology: From die and idling
Fludiddle
Created by: wordmeister
Pronunciation: flew-diddle
Sentence: I get the fluddidle every weekend when my wife asks me to clean up the yard.
Etymology: flu-do-diddle