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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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Sindrome
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: sinnn droh mmmm
Sentence: father murphy regretted his sindrome when he met the bishop in the bookmakers office
Etymology: syndrome, sin
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COMMENTS:
sinsational - Nosila, 2010-03-01: 21:36:00
He gets no sinpathy from me! - karenanne, 2010-03-02: 10:48:00
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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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COMMENTS:
Didn't see this one earlier: Nice word! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-11-06: 19:34:00
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Mortalitemporary
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: môrtalətempərerē
Sentence: Jim’s condition was classified as mortalitempory. As he described it to his boss, he was near death but miraculously recovered once the work day was done.
Etymology: mortality (the state of being subject to death) + temporary (lasting for only a limited period of time)
Psuedoviraltruancy
Created by: Koekbroer
Pronunciation: syoo-do-vi-ral-troo-en-see
Sentence: Once or twice a year Doug would call up his boss and scare the living daylights out of him with some story of a super infectious virus. This was in order to get a day off for hiking in the mountains when a good head-clearing was called for. On the whole, though, he was a very conscientious member of the workforce so the only thing one could really accuse him of was a little psuedoviraltruancy.
Etymology: psuedo + viral + truancy
Inventedluenza
Created by: thegoatisbad
Pronunciation: in-vent-ed-lou-enz-ah
Sentence: Kimberly suspected her co-worker had come down with a case of inventedluenza when she saw her coworker had updated her facebook status several times about shopping and going out on the town, which was strange since they lived in a village.
Etymology: invented (to make up or fabricate) + influenza (common disease)
Fakecation
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: fake-ca-shun
Sentence: Sara woke up feeling so good that she decided to take a couple fakecation days. Since she couldn't call in well, she faked being deathly ill. It was all working smoothly until she ran into her boss, who also felt too well to go to work, at the beach. "The doctor said I had to sit in the sun to cure my vitamin D deficiency," she lied. "Yeah, me too," said her boss. That was the end of the conversation and neither one of them ever mentioned it again.
Etymology: fake: false appearance; fraud + vacation: period of time devoted to pleasure, rest and relaxation
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COMMENTS:
:) - galwaywegian, 2010-03-01: 13:46:00
cute - Nosila, 2010-03-01: 21:33:00
I think I'm going to add this word to my everyday vocabulary! - karenanne, 2010-03-02: 10:52:00
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Pseudomonia
Created by: LoftyDreamer
Pronunciation: soodo-mone-yuh
Sentence: After two days of fake hacking and coughing at meetings, Congolia finally convinced her boss she was too ill to work, but Congolia smiled to herself as she left the office, knowing it was really a case of pseudomonia.
Etymology: pseudo (false) + pneumonia (respiratory illness)
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COMMENTS:
Love that Congolia! - Nosila, 2008-10-01: 21:58:00
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Skypeochondria
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: sky po kon dree ah
Sentence: Judy just could not face another Friday or Monday at her boring job, so she called her boss to beg off work. Judy suffers from skypeochondria and whether it is kneemonia, toelio, affluenza or another organ recital, she videos her dog's yucky mouth to show off her illness of the day. If her boss had a brain, he'd wonder at the sounds of seagulls and crashing waves in the background...
Etymology: Skype (video phone service) & Hypochondria (chronic and abnormal anxiety about imaginary symptoms and ailments)
Buphonic
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.
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by remistram and svnfsvn. Thank you remistram and svnfsvn! ~ James'
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Today's definition was suggested by remistram svnfsvn. Thank you remistram svnfsvn. ~ James