Verboticisms

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: hook kee kon dree ah

Sentence: Mala Dee had called her boss describing her dreadful symptoms and the fact that her doctor had told her to take 2 weeks off to avoid spreading infection to her co-workers. Her boss was sympathetic, but any doubts he had about her lengthy illness were brought home as he watched the closing ceremonies of the Olympics from Vancouver and saw a shot of Mala dancing around with the Team Canada athletes. It was then he realized that she had only been suffering from the hookychondria, Gold Fever, like the rest of the country. GO, CANADA, GO!

Etymology: Hooky (truancy; failure to attend) & Hypochondria (chronic and abnormal anxiety about imaginary symptoms and ailments)

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COMMENTS:

"Mala Dee" Good one! - karenanne, 2010-03-02: 10:46:00

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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)

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Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: f/lose

Sentence: Sandra often calls in with the fluse when she needs a mental health day at the beach.

Etymology: flu + false + ruse

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COMMENTS:

Sandra's such a flusey! - Jabberwocky, 2007-11-02: 13:34:00

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Created by: MrDave2176

Pronunciation: in-FAKE-shun

Sentence: Judy's infakesion was contageous. She had invited Mark, Harriet, and Gary to go to the game that afternoon since she had won four tickets to the game. "It is a bug that's been going around," they all said.

Etymology: Who hasn't had a fake infection from time to time?

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COMMENTS:

funny - Jabberwocky, 2007-11-02: 15:20:00

Reminds me of the good one Oz expression, "to chuck a sickie." - OZZIEBOB, 2007-11-04: 16:24:00

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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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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

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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'

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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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Created by: Sam123

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Created by: TJayzz

Pronunciation: Con-d-tay-jus

Sentence: When Neil heard the weather forecast for the next few days he hatched a plan that couldn't possibly fail. He used his kid's white face paints to make hiim look deathly pale and went into work moaning that he felt terrible, his boss took one look at him and fearing that he was connedtagious,, immediately told him to take a week off. As soon as Neil got home he washed off the paint and replaced it with suntan oil then poured himself a large drink and went into the garden to sunbathe for the rest of the day.

Etymology: Conned(to have deceived (someone) by lying) + Contagious(of a disease) spread by direct or indirect contact between people or organisms) = Connedtagious

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COMMENTS:

clever - Jabberwocky, 2008-10-01: 10:58:00

That Neil is MY kind of slacker. Buy him one on me. - metrohumanx, 2008-10-01: 13:33:00

Very clever. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-10-01: 18:14:00

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