Verboticisms

Created by: MrDave2176

Pronunciation: in-FAKE-shun

Sentence: Judy's infakesion was contageous. She had invited Mark, Harriet, and Gary to go to the game that afternoon since she had won four tickets to the game. "It is a bug that's been going around," they all said.

Etymology: Who hasn't had a fake infection from time to time?

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COMMENTS:

funny - Jabberwocky, 2007-11-02: 15:20:00

Reminds me of the good one Oz expression, "to chuck a sickie." - OZZIEBOB, 2007-11-04: 16:24:00

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Created by: bzav1

Pronunciation: mawk - in - gi - tis

Sentence: A severe case of mockingitis could keep Steve away for days

Etymology: blend of mocking and meningitis

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Created by: Kyoti

Pronunciation: Fohh-morr-TIE-tuhss

Sentence: Stanley smiled as his employee benefits rep tried to read his doctor's chicken scratch medical assessment, which was once again nothing more than a serious bout of Fauxmortitis that was easily taken care of with a prescribed round of golf in a neighboring county.

Etymology: Faux: fancy French word for "fake" + Mortis: fancy medical word for death + Itis: not-so-fancy suffix to imply a rampant breakout of whatever comes before it.

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Created by: astorey

Pronunciation: call-ing-in-sh-tik

Sentence: Avery was a diligent worker with a good sense of responsibility, but when her college roommates showed up on Thursday for a weekend of fun, she couldn't resist pulling the old callinginshtick. After trolling through plausible sudden and severe illnesses in her head, Avery settled on a urinary tract infection, figuring the gross-out factor would preclude her boss from exposing her callinginshtick. She was right.

Etymology: Calling in sick, changed to incorporate shtick, a Yiddish word that means a comic theme or gimmick.

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Excellent! That AVERY was a genius. You , too. :) - metrohumanx, 2008-10-01: 13:42:00

Good one...or mention any kind of female problems and they back away like you've got Bubomic Plague... - Nosila, 2008-10-01: 22:01:00

Meant Bubonic...though you could feel very explosive! - Nosila, 2008-10-01: 22:01:00

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: sky po kon dree ah

Sentence: Judy just could not face another Friday or Monday at her boring job, so she called her boss to beg off work. Judy suffers from skypeochondria and whether it is kneemonia, toelio, affluenza or another organ recital, she videos her dog's yucky mouth to show off her illness of the day. If her boss had a brain, he'd wonder at the sounds of seagulls and crashing waves in the background...

Etymology: Skype (video phone service) & Hypochondria (chronic and abnormal anxiety about imaginary symptoms and ailments)

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Created by: wordslikevenom

Pronunciation: B'you-fon-ik

Sentence: Phoebe's "sickies" had her down for just about every known, not so well known and outright fictitious illness and disease known to mankind. Playing the buphonic patient had become second nature to her at the start of the working week where she'd always manage to find a "cure" by the weekend. As Monday rolled around too soon, she was about to let her boss know that after calling out the doctor this morning she had been diagnosed with a rather nasty case of toe-stub and needed to rest until Friday evening.

Etymology: Bubonic plague: A rather nasty outbreak of spots. Actually, they seem to look more like boils that cover the whole body and eventually turn you to mush. Phony: not sincere or not real.

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Created by: Tigger

Pronunciation: il'-ə-bi

Sentence: Since the fishing season opened on Wednesday, and Joe couldn't resist the 'lure' of it, he needed an ailibi to get a few days off from work.

Etymology: ail - to be unwell + alibi - an excuse; claiming to be elsewhere at a certain time in question.

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COMMENTS:

Didn't see this one earlier: Nice word! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-11-06: 19:34:00

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Created by: karenanne

Pronunciation: sel yu LIE tis

Sentence: When Larry called into work and said he couldn't get out of bed because he had cellulietis, that was technically accurate, since he WAS using his CELL phone to LIE about not coming in. The "couldn't get out of bed" part was because his long-distance girlfriend was visiting!

Etymology: cellulitis + lie

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Created by: idavecook

Pronunciation: Hep-a-LIE-tis

Sentence: JIm's not here yet, I wonder if he's got hepalietis?

Etymology: Hepatitis + LIE

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Created by: niko23

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