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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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Slunked
Created by: man835
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Man, Todd totally slunked on us.
Etymology:
Narcoslothy
Created by: crazycarl
Pronunciation:
Sentence: I tried to clean my room but was overcome by a case of narcoslothy.
Etymology:
Ortatize
Created by: Lyokia
Pronunciation: Ort-a-tyze
Sentence: He ortatized as soon as he heard the word "dishes".
Etymology:
Antiproactive
Created by: bothra
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Jim became antiproactive when Ben mentioned the lawn needed cutting.
Etymology:
Impossumate
Created by: coinstar
Pronunciation: im-pau-sum-ate (v); see also impossumator, impossumation
Sentence: "Forged over decades of daily performances -- whenever anything needed to get done -- Larry's impossumation skills were legendary throughout the entended family."
Etymology: Active rather than passive verb (defintion should be clarified), from the Latin noun "possuma", an intentional role or affectation based on the unique fight-or-flight behavior of the North American marsupial, the opossum.
Chorlapse
Created by: poptart9
Pronunciation:
Sentence: He had a case of chorlapse when she asked him to help.
Etymology:
Workphobia
Created by: xklamation
Pronunciation:
Sentence:
Etymology: (english)work+(greek)phobia
Decapacitated
Created by: knickers
Pronunciation: de-cap-ass-it-ate-ed
Sentence: When she asked me to lick her muff, I sniffed it and was instantly decapacitated.
Etymology: From incapacitated, decapitate
Workolepsy
Created by: Wriiight
Pronunciation: work/o/lep/sy (long o sound in second syllable)
Sentence: When things need to be done you can count on his workolepsy disorder to kick in.
Etymology: work + narcolepsy
Chorefever
Created by: ckknh
Pronunciation: Chore Fee' ver
Sentence: Every time I ask my daughter to clean her room, she is immobilized by chorefever and doesn't recover until the next day.
Etymology:
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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