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'Yes Boss, I am sick as a dog'

DEFINITION: v., To create the impression that you are deathly ill and represent a potentially lethal bio-hazard risk, so that your boss will ask you to "take the next couple of days off". n., A faked illness.

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Feveruse

ahniwa

Created by: ahniwa

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Etymology: Fever + ruse.

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Fleasong

Created by: looseball

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Sentence: Be at the beach in ten minutes honey,my boss bought the old fleasong.

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Illemanate

Created by: clarion

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Sentence: Yeah, he totally illemanated the situation, and now he's taking an extra week's paid vacation while I'm stuck at the office doing all his work!

Etymology: ill- sickness and emanate- to send forth

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Fabrichondria

DrWebsterIII

Created by: DrWebsterIII

Pronunciation: fab ri ˈkändrēa

Sentence: Sue Ellen was quite the fabrichondriac, forever playing hooky and getting away with it, that her jealous co-workers begged her for one of her never failing, get out of work, contagious conditions.

Etymology: fabricate: to lie, + hypochondria: imaginary illness

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Dufforge

Created by: xirtam

Pronunciation: duf•fôrj

Sentence: It was going to be the first nice day in weeks; Dean decided to dufforge the day, by calling in sick, so he could play a round of golf.

Etymology: Duffer: Scots dial; Duffer, a person inept or inexperienced at a specific sport, as golf. + Forge: Latin; fabrica, To make a falsification.

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Pseudomedivacation

Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: Soo-doe-medda-vay-cay-shun

Sentence: Harvey felt smug after running a con job on his boss and winning a three day psuedomedivacation.

Etymology: Psuedo (false)- medical - vacation

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Mediscamvacation

Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: med-eh-scam-vuh-KAY-shun

Sentence: For the third year in a row Bernard managed to play on the sympathy of his boss Viola, and wrangled a weeks paid vacation of sick leave by pulling yet another mediscamvaction gambit.

Etymology: Blend of medical, scam, and vacation.

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Uhhuhwoof

Created by: pictionairhead

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Sentence: i got the - -

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Skypeochondria

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: sky po kon dree ah

Sentence: Judy just could not face another Friday or Monday at her boring job, so she called her boss to beg off work. Judy suffers from skypeochondria and whether it is kneemonia, toelio, affluenza or another organ recital, she videos her dog's yucky mouth to show off her illness of the day. If her boss had a brain, he'd wonder at the sounds of seagulls and crashing waves in the background...

Etymology: Skype (video phone service) & Hypochondria (chronic and abnormal anxiety about imaginary symptoms and ailments)

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Fakebuttsikinging

Created by: emilylind

Pronunciation: Say fake the butt and then the letters si and king and ing .

Sentence: she was fakebuttsikinging !

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Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2007-11-02: 01:55:00
Today's definition was suggested by remistram and svnfsvn. Thank you remistram and svnfsvn! ~ James'

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2007-11-02: 12:29:00
Thanks to everyone for joining me at our Blog Party yesterday to celebrate Verbotomy's first birthday. It was a lot of fun. Thanks! ~ James

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2010-03-01: 00:08:00
Today's definition was suggested by remistram svnfsvn. Thank you remistram svnfsvn. ~ James