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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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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.
Moutharougitist
Created by: mistressofwords
Pronunciation: mouth-a-roo-ji-tist
Sentence: The doctor said I have a bad case of Moutharougitist.
Etymology:
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COMMENTS:
having a red (rouge french for red) mouth that is swollen. yuk - mistressofwords, 2008-10-01: 15:58:00
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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)
Chacachacbambam
Created by: bobbythebuilder
Pronunciation: chaca-chac-bam-bam
Sentence: chacachacbambam is the best band ever.
Etymology:
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.
Mockingitis
Created by: bzav1
Pronunciation: mawk - in - gi - tis
Sentence: A severe case of mockingitis could keep Steve away for days
Etymology: blend of mocking and meningitis
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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Fleasong
Created by: looseball
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Be at the beach in ten minutes honey,my boss bought the old fleasong.
Etymology:
Fabrichondria
Created by: DrWebsterIII
Pronunciation: fab ri ˈkändrēa
Sentence: Sue Ellen was quite the fabrichondriac, forever playing hooky and getting away with it, that her jealous co-workers begged her for one of her never failing, get out of work, contagious conditions.
Etymology: fabricate: to lie, + hypochondria: imaginary illness
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Today's definition was suggested by remistram svnfsvn. Thank you remistram svnfsvn. ~ James