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DEFINITION: n. A specialized inability, or area of "chosen incompetency", based on an individual's need to avoid certain unpleasant tasks. v. To avoid responsibility by claiming incompetence.
Verboticisms
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Workastallic
Created by: bookowl
Pronunciation: work/a/stall/ik
Sentence: A workastallic never runs out of excuses for putting off chores.
Etymology: workaholic + stall
Disatrashity
Created by: andywells
Pronunciation: Dis-ah-trash-ity
Sentence: My husband has been diagnosed with disatrashity, so it looks like i'll be the one taking the bins out each week.
Etymology:
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COMMENTS:
I quite like it! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-06-19: 05:47:00
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Eschorew
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: es/chohr/oo
Sentence: Joe had to have an inventive and creative mind to come up with daily excuses to eschorew that which his mother had lined up throughout his summer vacation.
Etymology: ESCHOREW - verb - from ESCHEW (to shun; to avoid) + CHORE (a hard, or unpleasant task)
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COMMENTS:
Scooby Dooby Do eschorew? - Jabberwocky, 2008-06-18: 10:08:00
I consider "eschore" but "eschorew" is much better. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-06-19: 05:40:00
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Vexpertise
Created by: Alchemist
Pronunciation: vecks-per-TEES
Sentence: Although Josh was horrible at all the household chores, Ellen soon learned that his area of vexpertise was doing the dishes. Once he "did" them, they never needed to be done again.
Etymology: vex + expertise
Antiskill
Created by: jonobo
Pronunciation: antiskill
Sentence: I have the antiskill to work.
Etymology: anti + skill = antiskill. ........ ............... .............. the ant is killed.
Litterllergic
Created by: Rutilus
Pronunciation: lit-er-lerj-ik
Sentence: Greg was the atypical litterllregic teen. Able to live in his own s**t bur clean it up??? C'mon get real!
Etymology: litter - rubbish, refuse, garbage; allergic - averse to
Offaldodge
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: OF-UHL-doj
Sentence: At the first sign of any worthless rubbish, two-minute-old trash, household garbage or scraps of meat not worth getting upset about, offaldodging Bob would turn a whiter shade of pale. Ready to do all sorts of things and make numerous excuses to avoid any task he thought even a little unpleasant, this offaldodger thought that he fooled others. However, everyone quickly saw it as nothing more than an obvious offaldodge.
Etymology: OFFAL:waste parts,refuse,rubbish, garbage; inedible parts of a butchered animal DODGE: evade obligation by cunning, trickery.
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COMMENTS:
Well that's just awful. - Mustang, 2008-06-18: 08:10:00
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Selectskills
Created by: paintergrl1313
Pronunciation: select-skill
Sentence: Nnot being able to take out the garbage do to lack of knowledge is a selct skill
Etymology: Like selective hearing.
Mykid
Created by: josje
Pronunciation: my kid
Sentence: this is not a moron, it is my kid.
Etymology: my kid.
