Verboticisms

Created by: looseball

Pronunciation:

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

Etymology:

| Comments and Points

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

----------------------------
COMMENTS:

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

----------------------------

| Comments and Points

Created by: icefoxgothic

Pronunciation: bra(long a)-da

Sentence: I never get vacations so I had to breda to my boss.

Etymology: Break-To pause or stop and day-like monday

| Comments and Points

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.

----------------------------
COMMENTS:

That's what I"M talking about. More! More! - metrohumanx, 2008-10-01: 13:40:00

----------------------------

| Comments and Points

Created by: LisaBorden

Pronunciation:

Sentence: Healthwashing is a term used to describe the activities of companies and groups that position themselves as leaders in the crusade forward to good health while engaging in practices that may be contributing to our poor health, collectively and as a society.

Etymology:

| Comments and Points

Created by: cmseth

Pronunciation: Pretend-in-itis

Sentence: Larry was relieved to hear that his new clerk Todd had not caught a life-threatening parasite while staying an extra week at the beach, and happily checked the box labeled "Pretendinitis" on his pink slip.

Etymology: Pretend: to appear falsely -itus: an abnormal condition or tendency

----------------------------
COMMENTS:

Warning: Pretendinitis, if allowed to continue, could result in an office-wide "fabridemic". - cmseth, 2007-11-02: 07:59:00

Great word -- 'fabridemic' too! - Tigger, 2007-11-06: 13:38:00

----------------------------

| Comments and Points

Created by: QuantumMechanic

Pronunciation: home uh raj uh size

Sentence: We had home plate seats for the World Series, so I had to homerrhagicize or my boss would come checking up on me.

Etymology: Home + [hemo]rrhagic (bleeding)

| Comments and Points

Created by: sugarinthegourd

Pronunciation: fō-tā'-jən

Sentence: Bob was supposed to work the Thursday after Thanksgiving, but he was struck down by a post-holiday fauxtagion.

Etymology: Faux, contagion

| Comments and Points

Created by: idavecook

Pronunciation: Hep-a-LIE-tis

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

Etymology: Hepatitis + LIE

| Comments and Points

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: fy do kon dree a

Sentence: When Germaine Shepherd wants to have a mental health day at the beach from work, she comes down with a case of fidochondria. It scares her boss so bad, he gives her the rest of the week off. With her pug nose, poodle skirt, poochini bag,Afghan throw, pointy canine teeth, houndstooth coat and mutticulous timing, you'd think he'd have caught on by now when she plans to be sick as a dog...

Etymology: Fido (Latin for "I am faithful"...pet name for a dog) & Hypochondria (a patient with imaginary symptoms and ailments)

----------------------------
COMMENTS:

Very good! - artr, 2012-11-09: 08:34:00

----------------------------

| Comments and Points