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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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Fluse
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: f/lose
Sentence: Whenever Jenny has had enough of work, she'll call in with the fluse when she needs a mental health day at the beach.
Etymology: FLUSE noun - from FLU (highly contagious viral disease)+ FALSE (not genuine; counterfeit) + RUSE (a crafty trick, stratagem)
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COMMENTS:
Short and sweet. VERY economical word. - metrohumanx, 2008-10-01: 13:35:00
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Infakesion
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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Artificill
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: ar-tuh-fish-il
Sentence: She artificillated so many times that her co-workers sent her get well floral bouquets each week whether she made it in to work or not.
Etymology: artificial + ill
Pseudomedivacation
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: Soo-doe-medda-vay-cay-shun
Sentence: Harvey felt smug after running a con job on his boss and winning a three day psuedomedivacation.
Etymology: Psuedo (false)- medical - vacation
Muybuyuymuy
Created by: blackkittynili
Pronunciation: muey-buey-buey-muey
Sentence: i really am muybuybuying my boss
Etymology: i donow bhg guhf loujhf olujhf oulhf oluhf olujhf olujhf olujhf of oujhf ouhf ouhf ouhf ouf oufyuo uyfyuoyf uyf ouyf yu ofuyf uyo fuyof uoyf uyof yuo uyo fuyo fuyof yu fouyf yu fyu fuyf uoy fuy foufuyfuo uyf ouyf ouyf ouyf ouyf ouyf ouyf yuof yuov yu ofty
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COMMENTS:
muybuybuymuy - blackkittynili, 2007-11-04: 04:07:00
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Mafingering
Created by: Whittier
Pronunciation: muh-FING-grr-rihng
Sentence: I told my boss the trip to Aruba was for a medical procedure, but I was just mafingering.
Etymology: malingering + giving the finger to the boss
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.
Maladayoff
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: malla-day-off
Sentence: The boss was suspicious that Ken was only suffering from a maladayoff. In the background he could hear the strains of Greensleeves and the steady crash of waves on a beach. It must have been a case of fauxplague.
Etymology: malady + day off (faux + plague + plage fr. for Beach) A fauxplague is a specific type of maladayoff wherein the sufferer returns to work with a case of sunburn.
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COMMENTS:
Hee hee so funny!! i like fauxplague too - kinda sexy! - libertybelle, 2007-11-02: 11:09:00
Clever blend. Hope Ken doesn't get sandy blight! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-11-04: 16:49:00
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Replillicate
Created by: tumblebehr
Pronunciation: Reh plah ih la cayt
Sentence:
Etymology:
Grimweeker
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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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