Vote for the best verboticism.
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.
Verboticisms
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Psychocondria
Created by: mytimeonearth
Pronunciation:
Sentence: When asked to clean the bathroom she frequently had an attack of psychocondria.
Etymology:
Aworkvoid
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: ah-werk-voyd
Sentence: Whenever big projects were on deck and his boss began to assign work, he began to plan his aworkvoid strategy. The next day he would announce to the team that he had strep throat, H1N1, and pneumonia all at once. Thus the 5 week absence began. Obviously when he came back to work all the projects were complete.
Etymology: avoid + work
Laziphasia
Created by: TheGentleSherpa
Pronunciation: Lay-Zee-Fay-Shi-Ah
Sentence: When asked to get off the couch so the crumbs could be collected for recycling, Stan was struck immobile by his overwhelming sense of Laziphasia.
Etymology:
Workulosis
Created by: valhallan
Pronunciation:
Sentence: i can't, i think i have workulosis
Etymology:
Unreworcoleptic
Created by: Windyo
Pronunciation: Un/weur/ko/lep/tic
Sentence: This person in unreworkoleptic... He can't even hear of unrewarding activites without fainting.
Etymology: Base of "un", mixed with "work" arranged with a C rather than a K, and "leptic" comes from "narcoleptic" ^^
Workdead
Created by: LostAccount
Pronunciation:
Sentence:
Etymology:
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COMMENTS:
W - LostAccount, 2006-12-14: 00:35:00
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Narcoslacky
Created by: Verbepete
Pronunciation: nar-co-ss-lac-e
Sentence: Jim was overcome with a bout of narcoslacky right after his wife asked him to help with the dishes.
Etymology: Narcolepsy + Slacker
Helpingitis
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: hellp - in - ji - tiss
Sentence: Lawrence was suddenly struck with a severe case of helpingitis when Marjorie asked him to help wit the dishes. He became unable to get off the couch or stand up for about 45 minutes.
Etymology: help, meningitis (an infection of the membranes that surround the brain and spinal cord)
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COMMENTS:
They should call that dish detergent Palm-No-Live! - Nosila, 2009-08-03: 22:59:00
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Rigoravoidis
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: rigərəvoidəs
Sentence: The old gang liked to get together for a dinner out about once a month. Whenever it came time to pay the bill Wesley seems to come down with a case of rigoravoidis, unable to bend his elbow enough to reach either the tabletop or his wallet.
Etymology: rigor mortis (stiffening of the joints and muscles of a body a few hours after death) + avoid (keep away from or stop oneself from doing something)
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COMMENTS:
Sounds like he wass checkcident prone! - Nosila, 2009-08-03: 23:01:00
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Skiveitis
Created by: erasmus
Pronunciation: sky vie tis
Sentence: he suffered from excessive skiveitis, we couldnt get him to do any work.
Etymology: to skive is an english way to avoid work.
Comments:
Divakar - 2006-12-13: 02:03:00
Hey guys...I'm new and maybe I'm misunderstanding something. It's called "verbotomy" but do our words have to be verbs? Because to me, this seems to ask for an adjective. I mean, "To fake a sudden..." or "To react with sudden illness..." would sound more verbish.
wordmeister - 2006-12-13: 03:02:00
Hey Divakar, Any kind of word will do, as long as it is you can use it in a sentence. And the funnier that sentence that more votes you'll get...
verbatul - 2006-12-13: 07:54:00
Divakar has a point though. An attempt should be made to supply a verb when one is asked for (and still maintain wit).
BaruMonkey - 2006-12-13: 10:32:00
insofar as the name of the game is concerned... Verboseness, Verbosity (n) - An expressive style that uses excessive or empty words.
DarthWader - 2006-12-13: 11:53:00
I agree with Divakar... The definition begins with "To be..." not "The condition of..." Verb, verb, verb. Verb is the worb.
Hey Players,
As you may have noticed we have lot's of new Verbotomists. Welcome to everyone! We are working on setting up a grouping system, so that we can play in smaller groups... We will keep you posted, as we update the system! Cheers, James
warped - 2006-12-13: 13:40:00
Bah, I should read the list FIRST next time: I accidently ended up using someone else's word (shirkitis). Ah well. Also, grouping people into smaller groups would be great, it seems we got a flood of people from Jay Is Games...
wordmeister - 2006-12-13: 13:45:00
Hey read the sentence for Workumvent -- it's funny
TheCapn - 2006-12-13: 20:57:00
Im pretty sure there is a real word for this...
TheCapn - 2006-12-13: 21:16:00
There is, its "Malinger"
- 2006-12-13: 22:12:00
DarthWader, "verb" also refers to words and speech, as in the words "verbal" and "verbalize," or as BaruMonkey pointed out, "verbose." Thus this game is not about the part of speech called "verb," but rather about words in general.
oxhead - 2006-12-14: 00:09:00
Bifurcated Rivets posted a link to your site recently. That's how I got here.
missparaguay1991 - 2006-12-15: 10:34:00
James you are geniatic! how didn't I think of possibilizing such a fun game! At least we've you! Congreetings!
Hey missparaguay, Thanks for the compliment. What really amazes me, is the super-creativity of all our the players -- there are so many terrific words and sentences! ~ James
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