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'Yes Boss, I am sick as a dog'

DEFINITION: v., To create the impression that you are deathly ill and represent a potentially lethal bio-hazard risk, so that your boss will ask you to "take the next couple of days off". n., A faked illness.

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Deathillie

Created by: rexturtle

Pronunciation: deathil-LIE, or Death-IL-lie, or DEATH- illie : Comments please

Sentence: I told a deathillie to get off work today

Etymology: Crushing together of "deathly", "ill", and "lie".

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Nukealitis

Created by: mmmagique

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Fauxtagion

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

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Maladayoff

petaj

Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: malla-day-off

Sentence: The boss was suspicious that Ken was only suffering from a maladayoff. In the background he could hear the strains of Greensleeves and the steady crash of waves on a beach. It must have been a case of fauxplague.

Etymology: malady + day off (faux + plague + plage fr. for Beach) A fauxplague is a specific type of maladayoff wherein the sufferer returns to work with a case of sunburn.

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COMMENTS:

libertybelle Hee hee so funny!! i like fauxplague too - kinda sexy! - libertybelle, 2007-11-02: 11:09:00

Clever blend. Hope Ken doesn't get sandy blight! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-11-04: 16:49:00

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Trake

Created by: FreakoSpeako

Pronunciation:

Sentence: I had to trake my boss today.

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Replillicate

Created by: tumblebehr

Pronunciation: Reh plah ih la cayt

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Fidochondria

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)

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

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Cellulietis

karenanne

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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Illibi

Created by: Tigger

Pronunciation: il'-ə-bi

Sentence: Since the fishing season opened on Wednesday, and Joe couldn't resist the 'lure' of it, he needed an ailibi to get a few days off from work.

Etymology: ail - to be unwell + alibi - an excuse; claiming to be elsewhere at a certain time in question.

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Didn't see this one earlier: Nice word! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-11-06: 19:34:00

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Grimweeker

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

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Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2007-11-02: 01:55:00
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Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2010-03-01: 00:08:00
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