Verboticisms

Created by: wordslikevenom

Pronunciation: B'you-fon-ik

Sentence: Phoebe's "sickies" had her down for just about every known, not so well known and outright fictitious illness and disease known to mankind. Playing the buphonic patient had become second nature to her at the start of the working week where she'd always manage to find a "cure" by the weekend. As Monday rolled around too soon, she was about to let her boss know that after calling out the doctor this morning she had been diagnosed with a rather nasty case of toe-stub and needed to rest until Friday evening.

Etymology: Bubonic plague: A rather nasty outbreak of spots. Actually, they seem to look more like boils that cover the whole body and eventually turn you to mush. Phony: not sincere or not real.

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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.

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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: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: f/lose

Sentence: Whenever Jenny has had enough of work, she'll call in with the fluse when she needs a mental health day at the beach.

Etymology: FLUSE noun - from FLU (highly contagious viral disease)+ FALSE (not genuine; counterfeit) + RUSE (a crafty trick, stratagem)

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Short and sweet. VERY economical word. - metrohumanx, 2008-10-01: 13:35:00

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Created by: astorey

Pronunciation: call-ing-in-sh-tik

Sentence: Avery was a diligent worker with a good sense of responsibility, but when her college roommates showed up on Thursday for a weekend of fun, she couldn't resist pulling the old callinginshtick. After trolling through plausible sudden and severe illnesses in her head, Avery settled on a urinary tract infection, figuring the gross-out factor would preclude her boss from exposing her callinginshtick. She was right.

Etymology: Calling in sick, changed to incorporate shtick, a Yiddish word that means a comic theme or gimmick.

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Excellent! That AVERY was a genius. You , too. :) - metrohumanx, 2008-10-01: 13:42:00

Good one...or mention any kind of female problems and they back away like you've got Bubomic Plague... - Nosila, 2008-10-01: 22:01:00

Meant Bubonic...though you could feel very explosive! - Nosila, 2008-10-01: 22:01:00

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Created by: bobbythebuilder

Pronunciation: chaca-chac-bam-bam

Sentence: chacachacbambam is the best band ever.

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Created by: metrohumanx

Pronunciation: soo-doe-sim-PATH-oh-jen-IP-yule-ate

Sentence: Jeff really liked his job. However, when the first pale greens of springtime burst gloriously from the earth, he unfailingly became bedridden with a mysterious PSEUDOSYMPATHOGEN. Folk wisdom decreed that the only effective treatment for this stubbornly quixotic malady was to CALL IN SICK. One could predict with certainty that when the first forsythia of April reared it's yellow head, Jeff would call the boss and PSEUDOSYMPATHOGENIPULATE her into granting him a "sick" day. Sick of working, perhaps - but not too ill to crawl to the park and ogle the rollerbladers who were basking in the shower of benign photons that heralded the first warm weekday and incidentally contributed to the spread of that productivity-killing practice known as PSEUDOSYMPATHOGENIPULATION. (cough cough) ....I may need another day...I'm still a bit under the weather.

Etymology: PSEUDO+SYMPathy+pATHOGEN+manIPULATE= PSEUDOSYMPATHOGENIPULATE .....PSEUDO:false.....SYMPATHY:an affinity, association, or relationship between persons or things; from Greek sympatheia, from sympathēs having common feelings.....PATHOGEN:a specific causative agent (as a bacterium or virus) of disease.....MANIPULATE:to manage or utilize skillfully b: to control or play upon by artful, unfair, or insidious means especially to one's own advantage;from French, from manipuler to handle an apparatus in chemistry, ultimately from Latin manipulus.

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I love it when I come in on the 39th step, and then slowly rise in the rankings like a blob of rancid thirty weight.....only to bob just below the surface, colliding randomly with other verbotomists like viscous ectoplasm in an ancient lava lamp. - metrohumanx, 2008-10-01: 13:48:00

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Created by: lumina

Pronunciation: kol/i/to/sis

Sentence: The weekend was just too short and the beach too perfect. Though it was the middle of October, the sun was hot, and the surf was up. Bianca decided there was no way she was going to drive back into the city. Instead, she planned on coming down with a really good case of callitosis. Not only was she going to take Monday off, but she planned to let her boss know this bout was so bad, she would not only be out until Thursday, BUT would most probably show up with a bad case of skin discoloration from the antibiotics the doctor had prescribed.

Etymology: call: The dreaded "calling in sick" phone call. osis: suffix-affected with, condition, abnormal process.

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Hahahaha... Thanks Kiddo. - metrohumanx, 2008-10-01: 13:32:00

Terrific - OZZIEBOB, 2008-10-01: 18:14:00

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Created by: ahniwa

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Etymology: Fever + ruse.

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Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: f/lose

Sentence: Whenever Jenny has had enough of work, she'll call in with the fluse when she needs a mental health day at the beach.

Etymology: FLUSE noun - from FLU (highly contagious viral disease)+ FALSE (not genuine; counterfeit) + RUSE (a crafty trick, stratagem)

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