Verboticism: Oytonitis
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.
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Slackmaster
Created by: moltentim
Pronunciation: slak/mas/ter
Sentence: Mary's husband avoids work like a slackmaster.
Etymology: Of relation to a couch potato
Slobajob
Created by: scrabbelicious
Pronunciation: slob-a-job
Sentence: Uri was such a slobajob, well able to make a mess but incapable of cleaning one up.
Etymology: Messy recycling of 1) Slob, somebody who would live in the own excrement and 2) Bob-a-job, to do a small task in return for a reward, especially by boy scouts.
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COMMENTS:
I know a few slobajobs... But I refuse to clean up after them. (Actually I just pretend to refuse, because I can't stand the mess.) - jrogan, 2009-08-04: 07:21:00
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Rigormorvenience
Created by: sargent1
Pronunciation:
Sentence:
Etymology: Very convenient Rigor Mortis
Oporeraphobia
Created by: Empyreal
Pronunciation: oh-pore-er-a-fo-bee-a
Sentence: Oporereaphobia is the fear of work.
Etymology:
Laborophobia
Created by: johnnyrockett
Pronunciation: Lay-boar-o-fo-bee-a
Sentence: The moment he heard the vacuum cleaner, he felt laborophobic.
Etymology: Combination of Labor (work) and phobia (an unrealistic fear.)
Fludiddle
Created by: wordmeister
Pronunciation: flew-diddle
Sentence: I get the fluddidle every weekend when my wife asks me to clean up the yard.
Etymology: flu-do-diddle
Workumvent
Created by: Shlub
Pronunciation: Were - come - vent
Sentence: "I think I'll workumvent this week's shipping reports," thought John as he positioned the saw above his hand.
Etymology:
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COMMENTS:
Good sentence Shlub -- Funny! And frightenly true... - wordmeister, 2006-12-13: 13:46:00
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Menagitis
Created by: sweetclarity
Pronunciation: m-eh-n-ah-j-eye-t-ih-s.
Sentence: "I have some bad news: it's menagitis."
Etymology: from the French "menage", meaning "household chores" & the dead language "itis", meaning "sickness". The resemblance to "meningitis" is completely uncoincidental.
Spurimalaiseria
Created by: erwalter
Pronunciation: spu·ri·ma·laise·ria
Sentence: Bobby's spurimalaiseria prevented him from taking his final exam and resulted in his falining out of college
Etymology: spurious + malaise + ria