Verboticism: Slackipseudoailment
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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Chorolepsy
Created by: Vermithrax
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. ;)
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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Flunched
Created by: frobro808
Pronunciation:
Sentence: i'm flunched! i don't think i can make it to work today.
Etymology:
Laziotic
Created by: AsianPCTTN09
Pronunciation: Lazy-otic.
Sentence: I asked him to help with cleaning the bathroom, but he became too damn laziotic.
Etymology:
Comapose
Created by: jrogan
Pronunciation: koh-ma-poz
Sentence: Mitchell would go completely comapose whenever his wife asked him to do any chores around the house. This was relatively benign, until one day when they were driving home from cottage, and his wife thoughtlessly asked him if he could cut the grass when they got back to the city. He had just pulled into the passing lane, when he lost consciousness...
Etymology: comatose + pose (i.e. fake posture, stand still and do nothing)
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COMMENTS:
A Coma-ly word indeed! - Nosila, 2009-08-03: 22:58:00
great work, jrogan....you get my vote. - mweinmann, 2009-08-04: 07:34:00
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Laborcondria
Created by: gabngar
Pronunciation: Lay-bore-con-dree-uh
Sentence: Charley's laborcondria kicked in whenever he had to do his chores.
Etymology: Labor (work) + -condria (hypocondria)
Muhrtish
Created by: msokoloffster
Pronunciation: Muhr - tish
Sentence: Mary couldn't breath when she was told her company was going on a group training day due to her muhrtish.
Etymology: Unknown...
Unreworcoleptic
Created by: Windyo
Pronunciation: Un/weur/ko/lep/tic
Sentence: This person in unreworkoleptic... He can't even hear of unrewarding activites without fainting.
Etymology: Base of "un", mixed with "work" arranged with a C rather than a K, and "leptic" comes from "narcoleptic" ^^
Choroke
Created by: Jessj
Pronunciation: Chore+oak
Sentence: As soon as Marge asked him to clean out the garage he began to choroke by coughing like he had something in his throat.
Etymology: Chore + choke
