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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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Expediadotcon
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: ex speedy yah dot kon
Sentence: Mary had a knack for getting additional vacation time every year. By faking dreadful symptoms and acting better than most Oscar winners, she was able to fool her boss into believing she was at death's doorstep and highly infectious. She definitely put the "con" in contagious. After she had set the stage, she flu off to exotic locales and enjoyed an expediadotcon vacation. One of these days, her boss would wise up and figure out that when Typhoid Mary came back from these illnesses, she had a tan. When that happened, she'd lose her job and she would only be able to afford to vacation in Puerto Backyardo!
Etymology: expedia.com(popular website for last minute cheaper vacations) & con (to deprive by deceit;hustle)
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COMMENTS:
love Peurto Backyardo - Jabberwocky, 2008-10-01: 10:59:00
:) ! - metrohumanx, 2008-10-01: 13:29:00
Good word - OZZIEBOB, 2008-10-01: 18:13:00
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Fleasong
Created by: looseball
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Be at the beach in ten minutes honey,my boss bought the old fleasong.
Etymology:
Mockingitis
Created by: bzav1
Pronunciation: mawk - in - gi - tis
Sentence: A severe case of mockingitis could keep Steve away for days
Etymology: blend of mocking and meningitis
Fakecation
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: fake-ca-shun
Sentence: Sara woke up feeling so good that she decided to take a couple fakecation days. Since she couldn't call in well, she faked being deathly ill. It was all working smoothly until she ran into her boss, who also felt too well to go to work, at the beach. "The doctor said I had to sit in the sun to cure my vitamin D deficiency," she lied. "Yeah, me too," said her boss. That was the end of the conversation and neither one of them ever mentioned it again.
Etymology: fake: false appearance; fraud + vacation: period of time devoted to pleasure, rest and relaxation
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COMMENTS:
:) - galwaywegian, 2010-03-01: 13:46:00
cute - Nosila, 2010-03-01: 21:33:00
I think I'm going to add this word to my everyday vocabulary! - karenanne, 2010-03-02: 10:52:00
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Plaguegiarize
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: playg/jeea/rise
Sentence: Whenever Dan felt the urge to spend a lazy day relaxing on the beach he would plaguegiarize the current circulating virus and call in sick.
Etymology: plague + plagiarize
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)
Sindrome
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: sinnn droh mmmm
Sentence: father murphy regretted his sindrome when he met the bishop in the bookmakers office
Etymology: syndrome, sin
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COMMENTS:
sinsational - Nosila, 2010-03-01: 21:36:00
He gets no sinpathy from me! - karenanne, 2010-03-02: 10:48:00
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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.
Fakesicknessism
Created by: ethancarlyon
Pronunciation: fake sick niss is um
Sentence: I used my fakesicknessism to get out of school early yesterday.
Etymology: fake- not real sick- not healthy ism- syndrome
Comments:
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Today's definition was suggested by remistram svnfsvn. Thank you remistram svnfsvn. ~ James