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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Exerthaustion
Created by: golux13
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Bob took to his bed with a case of exerthaustion when Marge asked him to vacuum the upstairs hall.
Etymology:
Ahandypox
Created by: oohisay
Pronunciation: a-handy-pox
Sentence: When asked to lend a hand with the deck building, Roger was stricken with a bout of ahandypox.
Etymology:
Helpergenic
Created by: moggy
Pronunciation: Hell.Per.Jen.Ick.
Sentence: "I'm sorry I can't help you with the dishes - allergies you see?" "Oh, that's ok, these dishes are hypo-helpergenic!"
Etymology: From Help. Allergic. See? See?
Lazipossumate
Created by: lennyjaxn
Pronunciation: Ley-zee-POS-uh-meyt
Sentence: The request of Mrs. Johnson for her husband to clean out the garage caused the unfortunate man to lazipossumate until she left.
Etymology: From the low German lasich - languid, and American Indian opposum - he who plays dead
Chorolepsy
Created by: cataath
Pronunciation: Chore-o-lep-see
Sentence: Dad has chorolepsy, I can't wake him up!
Etymology: Chore - work around the house olepsy - last part of narcolepsy. ;)
Decapacitated
Created by: knickers
Pronunciation: de-cap-ass-it-ate-ed
Sentence: When she asked me to lick her muff, I sniffed it and was instantly decapacitated.
Etymology: From incapacitated, decapitate
Psychostallmatic
Created by: aly22
Pronunciation: sī'kō-stall-măt'ĭk
Sentence: Psychostallmatic disorders have definite - but temporary - physical symptoms but are thought to be caused by emotional or psychological factors.
Etymology: psychosomatic and stall
Psychosomavoidance
Created by: lauramy
Pronunciation: sahy-koh-suh-muh-void-ns
Sentence: Every time he has to clean his room he gets a case of phychosomavoidance.
Etymology: psycho -- of the mind soma -- of the body avoidance -- the act of delaying
Nocandoitis
Created by: widjet22
Pronunciation: Just read it.
Sentence: She is often plagued by "nocandoitis," and misses a lot of work.
Etymology: From the phrase "No can do." And from "itis," meaning to inflame.
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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