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DEFINITION: n. A specialized inability, or area of "chosen incompetency", based on an individual's need to avoid certain unpleasant tasks. v. To avoid responsibility by claiming incompetence.
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Responsibilityphobia
Created by: HipHop247
Pronunciation: res-pon-si-bil-i-ty-foe-bee-a
Sentence: He has responsibilityphobia because he cannot (or so he says) clean the cat litter box or mow the lawn.
Etymology: Responsibility/Phobia
Shirkwaster
Created by: suzanne
Pronunciation: sh- irk - way -stir
Sentence: his shirkwaster was an allergy to water which meant that most of the lifeguarding duties fell to george.
Etymology: shirk - to avoid your responsibility. waster - someone who takes up air better used by cockroaches.
Chorallergic
Created by: ekath
Pronunciation: chore-allergic
Sentence: hes both chorallergic to weeding and allergic to the flowers. garden duty isn't a very good assignment for him.
Etymology: chore + allergic
Chorenography
Created by: porsche
Pronunciation: chor/ee/no/grafee
Sentence: With the proper chorenography he skirted every chore in the house
Etymology: choreography + chore + NO
Offaldodge
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: OF-UHL-doj
Sentence: At the first sign of any worthless rubbish, two-minute-old trash, household garbage or scraps of meat not worth getting upset about, offaldodging Bob would turn a whiter shade of pale. Ready to do all sorts of things and make numerous excuses to avoid any task he thought even a little unpleasant, this offaldodger thought that he fooled others. However, everyone quickly saw it as nothing more than an obvious offaldodge.
Etymology: OFFAL:waste parts,refuse,rubbish, garbage; inedible parts of a butchered animal DODGE: evade obligation by cunning, trickery.
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COMMENTS:
Well that's just awful. - Mustang, 2008-06-18: 08:10:00
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Abchoretion
Created by: azazn
Pronunciation: Ab-chore-shin
Sentence: Saturday is chore day? I think I'm going to need an 'abchoretion' that day.
Etymology: abortion: failure in or of a plan. chore: the everyday housework. chore is stuck in at the 'or' sound in abortion
Chorepunk
Created by: Koekbroer
Pronunciation: chor-punk
Sentence: "Doug claims that if he takes Fido out for a walk he might accidentally lose him. He is such a chorepunk."
Etymology: chore; punk
Protrashtination
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: pro/trash/tin/ay/shun
Sentence: Billy's protrashtination resulted in his room looking like a garbage dump.
Etymology: trash + procrastination
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COMMENTS:
Omg...love it! ha - lumina, 2008-06-18: 12:27:00
OMG it's TDF, if you are OACG! (It's to Die for if you are over a certain age! - Nosila, 2008-06-19: 00:43:00
Very good word - OZZIEBOB, 2008-06-19: 05:41:00
Good word. I guess it left Billy down in the dumps. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-06-19: 05:45:00
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Amnazya
Created by: lumina
Pronunciation: amm nay zee a
Sentence: No one really understood how Speed got his nickname. He was fun to party with and could dance all night long (maybe that's it) but when the sun came up and it was time to "assess the damage," he always came down with the worst case of Amnazya. Does he really expect us to believe he's never seen a vaccuum?
Etymology: AMNesia: Partial or total memory loss. lAZY: Disinclined to work or exertion
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COMMENTS:
good looking word. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-06-19: 05:46:00
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