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'Mommy, is Daddy playing dead again?'

DEFINITION: To be physically overcome by a sudden illness, disability, or even death when asked to participate in unrewarding activities -- like work, or household chores.

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Lusioscanamy

Created by: Eeliza

Pronunciation: Lucy-Oh-Si-Can-A-Me

Sentence: "My mother yelled at me yesterday to Lusioscanamy...she was so angry!"

Etymology: Definition- Meaning to exit ones living quarters or face viloent consequences.

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Dedra

Created by: rahullotli

Pronunciation: dad-ra

Sentence: stop being dedra

Etymology:

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COMMENTS:

good word - rahullotli, 2007-07-14: 13:58:00

cool - rahullotli, 2007-07-14: 13:58:00

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Jobbled

Created by: purpleartichokes

Pronunciation: job-bulled

Sentence: Her husband would have loved to help, but the mere thought of grasping the toilet brush made him jobbled.

Etymology: job, hobbled

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COMMENTS:

funny - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-12: 12:20:00

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Pseudomortisize

Created by: Dboozer

Pronunciation: soo-dough-more-tih-size

Sentence: Vinny pseudomortized so well that his wife regularly tried to have him embalmed, usually on Sundays when the grass needed mowed.

Etymology: pseudo (false, fake) + mortis (death) + ize (verb)

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COMMENTS:

the lazy sod !! but I hear her neighbour is a rake - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-12: 12:45:00

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Skillduggery

Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: skill/dug/ury

Sentence: Whenever a chore required his attention Bob took advantage of the masterful art of skillduggery.

Etymology: skullduggery (Crafty deception or trickery) + skill (as in pretending he doesn't have any)

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COMMENTS:

Huggery, duggery, dock... the lout went off the clock. ;)) - Kyoti, 2007-07-12: 13:21:00

the clock struck "done" and off he'd run - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-12: 13:41:00

to the bar at the end of the block. - purpleartichokes, 2007-07-12: 14:29:00

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Chorematose

Created by: Osomatic

Pronunciation: chore + ma + tose

Sentence: My, will you look at all that laundry, and there's my girlfriend, lying chorematose on the couch.

Etymology: chore + comatose

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Retard

Created by: cinta1

Pronunciation:

Sentence:

Etymology:

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Slothia

Created by: KristinA

Pronunciation: sloth-E-uh

Sentence: She named her family's slothia as her reason for hiring a maid service.

Etymology: "sloth" for 1) the slow, if not motionless, characteristics of the animal and 2) the adjective meaning messy + "ia" for the condition thereof

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Necrochore

Created by: hairydoginparis

Pronunciation: Neigh-crow-chore

Sentence: The man collapsed of necrochore when asked to do the laundry and the dishes.

Etymology: necro(the dead)+chore(household work)

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Malaisy

Created by: jadenguy

Pronunciation: ma lay zee

Sentence: Dad always said he had a bad case of the malaisy. His tincture was 1182 ccs of Olde English, coupled with an extra large bag of Funyuns and four hours of game shows. It wasn’t often that he’d make his stalignant restitis the focus of his day, though. He run to the restroom quite often.

Etymology: malignant + malaise + lazy

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COMMENTS:

great combo - Jabberwocky, 2007-07-12: 12:16:00

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Comments:

HALibut - 2007-07-12: 00:47:00
Dethrilliwaition

HALibut - 2007-07-12: 00:51:00
oop

rikboyee - 2007-07-12: 01:45:00
as verbotomists...surely we need to think up a word for 'accidently entering your word in the comment box'

petaj petaj - 2007-07-12: 03:09:00
How about verbotogaffe?

rikboyee - 2007-07-12: 04:52:00
or wrongspotomy

petaj petaj - 2007-07-12: 05:57:00
Good one! Maybe dysboxia describes it, or commentouch.

purpleartichokes - 2007-07-12: 07:07:00
boxnix

purpleartichokes - 2007-07-12: 07:53:00
commentose?

galwaywegian - 2007-07-12: 07:58:00
verblitch?

purpleartichokes - 2007-07-12: 08:56:00
boxlexic?

jadenguy - 2007-07-12: 10:38:00
boxnative dissonance?

purpleartichokes - 2007-07-12: 10:46:00
enturd?

Kyoti - 2007-07-12: 10:57:00
Quadrilateraccidental? ;))

Jabberwocky - 2007-07-12: 11:46:00
how about commenterry?

purpleartichokes - 2007-07-12: 12:45:00
verratumy?

HALibut - 2007-07-12: 12:53:00
lmbo

Jabberwocky - 2007-07-12: 14:24:00
sorry - it must seem as if we're making you the HALibut of our jokes. We're only having pun

HALibut - 2007-07-12: 21:15:00
np, I had it coming, commentose gmv, always bugs me there's no way to delete accidental comments :-( lol

Rossco - 2007-08-10: 15:05:00
Blurbgate?