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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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Psychosicko
Created by: abrakadeborah
Pronunciation: Sy-koe-sick-koe
Sentence: Shane had a problem with always being a psychosicko and going overboard to his boss in order to get more time off.
Etymology: Psycho-Slang for a person that's crazy. Sicko-Slang for a person that is constantly sick.
Contrafalsphlegma
Created by: NeuroGlyph
Pronunciation: Con-trah-falz-fleg-muh
Sentence: Contrafalsphlegma cannot be created nor destroyed...so...if a patient who insists they have it, they should ought to have a brain scan.
Etymology: CONTRA ~ against/opposite FALS ~ deceive PHLEGMA ~ inflammation
Homerrhagicize
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)
Sikasadog
Created by: afehnel2
Pronunciation: Sick-as-a-dog
Sentence: "I would come into work today but I can't because my doctor says I have Sickasadog. It's contagious."
Etymology: Sick- not feeling well As a dog- Dogs get real sick
Scamalotosis
Created by: Eyeshah
Pronunciation: /scam-uh-LAW-toe-sis/
Sentence: It became apparent to Lieza's boss that she was suffering from a case of scamalotosis after Lieza called in sick for the eighth day that week.
Etymology: scam + alot + osis (affected with, condition, abnormal process)
Chacachacbambam
Created by: bobbythebuilder
Pronunciation: chaca-chac-bam-bam
Sentence: chacachacbambam is the best band ever.
Etymology:
Medifabulate
Created by: jdurham777
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Since I had used up all my vacation, I had to resort to my 'trick knee,' call my boss and medifabulate to get the week off.
Etymology: Medi - (n) relating to the management of physical disorder fabulate (v) to lie. 3rd century Rome, when the senatorial archives record a spike in the number of soldiers claiming illness to avoid duty.
Virallusion
Created by: rexcausey
Pronunciation: vi-rawl-loo-zhuh-n
Sentence: Robbie cleverly came up with a virallusion when he found out his favorite pro baseball team made it to the World Series.
Etymology: Virallusion is noun derived from the words 1.) virus(Any of various extremely small, often disease-causing agents) and 2.) illusion(something that deceives by producing a false or misleading impression of reality)
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COMMENTS:
good word - Nosila, 2008-10-01: 22:02:00
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Anthraxafaking
Created by: thebaron
Pronunciation: an-thrax-a-fak-ing
Sentence: Bob put on a good show, but all his co-workers knew he was just anthraxafaking.
Etymology: anthrax (deadly infection) fake (pretend)
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by remistram and svnfsvn. Thank you remistram and svnfsvn! ~ James'
Thanks to everyone for joining me at our Blog Party yesterday to celebrate Verbotomy's first birthday. It was a lot of fun. Thanks! ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by remistram svnfsvn. Thank you remistram svnfsvn. ~ James