Vote for the best verboticism.
DEFINITION: v. To be physically overcome by a sudden illness, disability, or even death when asked to participate in unrewarding activities -- like work, or household chores. n. A person who gets sick when asked to work.
Verboticisms
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Slackpawed
Created by: chale
Pronunciation:
Sentence: My dad fell slackpawed to the floor when he saw the vacuum cleaner.
Etymology:
Possumuity
Created by: Alchemist
Pronunciation:
Sentence: As usual, George was stricken with acute possumity as soon as dinner was over, and collapsed on the couch.
Etymology: from the north american possum, known for its ability to play dead when threatened.
Flabenzachen
Created by: TheCapn
Pronunciation: Flab-en-za-tch-en
Sentence: He was flabenzachen when it was time for work.
Etymology:
Washeate
Created by: sodium
Pronunciation: wash-e-8
Sentence: Just the thought of having to do all that laundry washeated me, and I spent the next 2 hours worshipping the porcelain deity.
Etymology: from nauseate and wash
Dutiphobia
Created by: Verbotomnist
Pronunciation: Doo-tee-fo-bee-ah
Sentence: He suffers from dutiphobia, even the sight of a mop or broom may trigger an attack.
Etymology:
Vigormortis
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: vig-er-mawr-tis
Sentence: Tony is an active, if slightly paunchy, dad. He plays with the kids. He even rides his bike a couple days a week. A strange affliction hits him when household chores are mentioned. He immediately comes down with acute vigormortis, a condition where all energy drains from his body to the point that he can barely lift a finger. The cure comes as quickly as it manifests as soon as the chore is complete or even assigned to someone else.
Etymology: vigor (healthy physical or mental energy or power; vitality) + rigor mortis (the stiffening of the body after death)
Disemptrant
Created by: Divakar
Pronunciation: diss-EMP-trint
Sentence: John the slacker quickly became disemptrant when his girlfriend Jill asked him to clean the apartment.
Etymology: dis (not) + employer (french for "employ")
Takepartattack
Created by: wysware
Pronunciation: take-par-ta-tack
Sentence: When asked to contribute I had a sudden takepartattack
Etymology: take part (join in; contribute) attack (coronary)
Comments:
Divakar - 2006-12-13: 02:03:00
Hey guys...I'm new and maybe I'm misunderstanding something. It's called "verbotomy" but do our words have to be verbs? Because to me, this seems to ask for an adjective. I mean, "To fake a sudden..." or "To react with sudden illness..." would sound more verbish.
wordmeister - 2006-12-13: 03:02:00
Hey Divakar, Any kind of word will do, as long as it is you can use it in a sentence. And the funnier that sentence that more votes you'll get...
verbatul - 2006-12-13: 07:54:00
Divakar has a point though. An attempt should be made to supply a verb when one is asked for (and still maintain wit).
BaruMonkey - 2006-12-13: 10:32:00
insofar as the name of the game is concerned... Verboseness, Verbosity (n) - An expressive style that uses excessive or empty words.
DarthWader - 2006-12-13: 11:53:00
I agree with Divakar... The definition begins with "To be..." not "The condition of..." Verb, verb, verb. Verb is the worb.
Hey Players,
As you may have noticed we have lot's of new Verbotomists. Welcome to everyone! We are working on setting up a grouping system, so that we can play in smaller groups... We will keep you posted, as we update the system! Cheers, James
warped - 2006-12-13: 13:40:00
Bah, I should read the list FIRST next time: I accidently ended up using someone else's word (shirkitis). Ah well. Also, grouping people into smaller groups would be great, it seems we got a flood of people from Jay Is Games...
wordmeister - 2006-12-13: 13:45:00
Hey read the sentence for Workumvent -- it's funny
TheCapn - 2006-12-13: 20:57:00
Im pretty sure there is a real word for this...
TheCapn - 2006-12-13: 21:16:00
There is, its "Malinger"
- 2006-12-13: 22:12:00
DarthWader, "verb" also refers to words and speech, as in the words "verbal" and "verbalize," or as BaruMonkey pointed out, "verbose." Thus this game is not about the part of speech called "verb," but rather about words in general.
oxhead - 2006-12-14: 00:09:00
Bifurcated Rivets posted a link to your site recently. That's how I got here.
missparaguay1991 - 2006-12-15: 10:34:00
James you are geniatic! how didn't I think of possibilizing such a fun game! At least we've you! Congreetings!
Hey missparaguay, Thanks for the compliment. What really amazes me, is the super-creativity of all our the players -- there are so many terrific words and sentences! ~ James
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