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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Pullasickia
Created by: deviant
Pronunciation: Pull-Ay-Sicky-aaah
Sentence: Internal inspection should be announced on the day of the inspection to invoid cronic bouts of pullasickia.
Etymology: From the pronunciation, to pull a sickie, taking time off work while faking illness usually to avoid an unpleasant activity or allow attendance of something more entertaining, like a few extra days on holiday or to cover for needing to do the dishes.
Illazyrated
Created by: allwise
Pronunciation: Ill-lazy-rated
Sentence: As long as Jill makes dinner, Jack is illazyrated in fromt of the TV.
Etymology: Incapacitated + lazy = Illazyrated
Flamboozled
Created by: Edburns
Pronunciation:
Sentence: The young toddler was flamboozled after his mother asked him to take out the trash.
Etymology:
Fatalysis
Created by: Adamm
Pronunciation: Fay-tal-iss-iss
Sentence: "My brother comes over with a bout of Fatalysis at the mere sight of a dishcloth."
Etymology: A fusion of the words Fatal and Paralysis, as the "victim" becomes paralysed to such an extreme that a fatality is sometimes believed to have occoured.
Exercispire
Created by: johnsto
Pronunciation: Exersi-spired
Sentence: Alice can't do it; she's exercispired.
Etymology: Exert (to do work) + expire (to die/end)
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COMMENTS:
im rubbish - johnsto, 2006-12-13: 07:29:00
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Choronary
Created by: gorillo
Pronunciation: Chore-o-nary
Sentence: Bob had a choronary when I asked him to take out the trash.
Etymology: chore+coronary
Lazividy
Created by: ubgrud
Pronunciation: lay-ziff-ity
Sentence: We were supposed to do some springcleaning on the weekend, but were overcome by lazividy.
Etymology: lazy levidity
Chronicworkapation
Created by: ChrisCarrk
Pronunciation: kronik-work-ah-pay-shun
Sentence: Suddenly, Bob had an attack of chronicworkapation and fell down to the floor!
Etymology: chronic + work
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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