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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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Flunched
Created by: frobro808
Pronunciation:
Sentence: i'm flunched! i don't think i can make it to work today.
Etymology:
Labore
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: lay bor
Sentence: After just a few months, Hilary discovered that her hubby, Bill, was a labore. When asked to do something minute, like vacuum or empty the dishwasher, he became ill, even in trying to summon the courage to follow his wife's instructions. The excuses were always alike..."My head hurts...I have a fever, Oh. my back...". but she felt the same as most women in her situation..."Wait till you go through childbirth before you tell me how much your body hurts..."
Etymology: Labor ( worker) & Bore (cause to be bored; tedious, so lacking in interest as to become bored)
Futral
Created by: vladtheimpala
Pronunciation:
Sentence: As the argument between his wife and mother degenerated to new lows, Barry remained futral.
Etymology: Futile and Neutral
Olazitic
Created by: rikkyboy
Pronunciation: O-la-zi-tic
Sentence: If it wasn't for Fred being olazitic, he would've help around the house more often.
Etymology:
Hypochondrasicalia
Created by: ArsMajika
Pronunciation: HIGH-po-KOHN-dra-SIK-ah-lia
Sentence: "Unfortunately, Albert could not mow the lawn when asked, as he contracted a sudden case of Hypochondrasicalia"
Etymology: Derived from Hypochondriac and Lackadaisical.
Flabenzachen
Created by: TheCapn
Pronunciation: Flab-en-za-tch-en
Sentence: He was flabenzachen when it was time for work.
Etymology:
Workaphobia
Created by: humbug
Pronunciation:
Sentence: I have such a terrible case of workaphobia that I once told my boss my entire family died to miss work.
Etymology:
Disinterestation
Created by: Puptentacle
Pronunciation:
Sentence: Obviously he is suffering from advanced disinterestation.
Etymology:
Shmurg
Created by: tpm01
Pronunciation:
Sentence: The son didn't want to mow the grass for his father so he decided to shmurg and have to stay on the couch all 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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