Verboticisms

Created by: idavecook

Pronunciation: Hep-a-LIE-tis

Sentence: JIm's not here yet, I wonder if he's got hepalietis?

Etymology: Hepatitis + LIE

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Created by: looseball

Pronunciation:

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

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: mall ayze

Sentence: The malaze she felt was at it's worst after her periodic binges on Gang's Beer and purple artichokes.

Etymology: malaise, laze

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Thank goodness I have today off, or I'd have to call in with malaze. That party last night was WILD! Ow. That typing hurt. Better head back to bed. - purpleartichokes, 2007-11-02: 07:42:00

Sounds like she's as "full as the carpet snake that swallowed the wallaby!" Wouldn't ave been the beer that made her crook; it ave been the purple artichokes,! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-11-04: 16:58:00

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Created by: Justpeachyy

Pronunciation: Anal glau coma iss

Sentence: Yeah.. that's what I said, my boss bought my analglaucomais so let's ride!

Etymology: I dont SEE my ASS coming into work today

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COMMENTS:

Great etymology - petaj, 2007-11-03: 07:18:00

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Created by: aiiden

Pronunciation: work-uh-lite-is

Sentence: I've got workalitis today Jimbo, I'm not going into the office, I'm drinkin at the beach.

Etymology: workalate =(to go to work) itis=(some form of sickness)

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Created by: Lyokia

Pronunciation:

Sentence: When Mattie wanted to skip the major presentation at work she came down with a fluiaral.

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Created by: karenanne

Pronunciation: sel yu LIE tis

Sentence: When Larry called into work and said he couldn't get out of bed because he had cellulietis, that was technically accurate, since he WAS using his CELL phone to LIE about not coming in. The "couldn't get out of bed" part was because his long-distance girlfriend was visiting!

Etymology: cellulitis + lie

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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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Created by: OZZIEBOB

Pronunciation: GRIM-week-uhr

Sentence: When telephonicly Bob's eerie ebolalia mournfully eked out his own impending self-doom; his boss, Mr Hart, always immediately granted to him, a moaning, groaning grimweeker, the next five working days off on full pay.

Etymology: GRIM: having a harsh, surly, forbidding, or morbid air; melancholy; despondent: & WEEK:the working days or working portion of the seven-day period; workweek; _ER: (suffix): forming nouns, denoting doer. GRIM REAPER: the ghastly, savage, fierce, harsh, stalking, foreboding and repulsive aspect of immanent death. EBOLALIA (ebola & lalia)

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COMMENTS:

a whole week? lucky guy - Jabberwocky, 2008-10-01: 11:00:00

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Created by: Eyeshah

Pronunciation: /scam-uh-LAW-toe-sis/

Sentence: It became apparent to Lieza's boss that she was suffering from a case of scamalotosis after Lieza called in sick for the eighth day that week.

Etymology: scam + alot + osis (affected with, condition, abnormal process)

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