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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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Mallusion
Created by: Muzplaya
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Bob went to the casino on Monday, content his boss had bought his mallusion.
Etymology: Malady, Illusion
Malaze
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
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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
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Mediscam
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: MED-eh-skam
Sentence: In order to extend his vacation a couple extra days, Barrymore once again conned his boss with a mediscam, reporting phony symptoms accompanied by phony photos.
Etymology: Blend of 'medical' and 'scam'
Viruse
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: vy-roos
Sentence: It had been months since I had taken a day off so I spent the first three days of the week 'shivering' with chills and moaning to establish the presence of my viruse. It was nice to get a four day long weekend.
Etymology: virus + viable + ruse
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COMMENTS:
Thanks for your kind thoughts. Sounds like you've got a bait- hope your boss takes it! Your sentence is so true-no doubt a wordwide phenomena. Tomorrow (Tuesday)is Melbourne Cup day ,a public holiday, and it is estimated that more than 40% of the workforce are not at work this morning. Viruse is alive and well in Melbourne today! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-11-04: 17:13:00
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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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COMMENTS:
a whole week? lucky guy - Jabberwocky, 2008-10-01: 11:00:00
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Ergbola
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: urg-bowl-ah
Sentence: She woke up with a wicked case of ergbola, compounded by an overwhelming need to feel the sand between her toes and the sun on her face.
Etymology: erg, ebola
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
Illployment
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: il-PLOI-ment
Sentence: By telling his boss that he was suffering from the barcoo rot, Bob created such a perfect illusion that he was granted immediate illployment on full pay for a month.
Etymology: ill: unwell, unfavorable; ploy: 1. trick, manoeuvre, 2. piece of business, task & ment: act. ... Illusion: blend of ill & illusion.
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COMMENTS:
glad everything went well with the cardio - nice word - Jabberwocky, 2007-11-02: 12:34:00
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Cellulietis
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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