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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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Pretendinitis
Created by: cmseth
Pronunciation: Pretend-in-itis
Sentence: Larry was relieved to hear that his new clerk Todd had not caught a life-threatening parasite while staying an extra week at the beach, and happily checked the box labeled "Pretendinitis" on his pink slip.
Etymology: Pretend: to appear falsely -itus: an abnormal condition or tendency
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COMMENTS:
Warning: Pretendinitis, if allowed to continue, could result in an office-wide "fabridemic". - cmseth, 2007-11-02: 07:59:00
Great word -- 'fabridemic' too! - Tigger, 2007-11-06: 13:38:00
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Contagialize
Created by: taggreen
Pronunciation:
Sentence: No, we're cool, I contagialized my boss and she made me take the day off.
Etymology:
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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COMMENTS:
Very good! - artr, 2012-11-09: 08:34:00
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Fluiaral
Created by: Lyokia
Pronunciation:
Sentence: When Mattie wanted to skip the major presentation at work she came down with a fluiaral.
Etymology:
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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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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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
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