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'You had to get up an hour earlier?'

DEFINITION: n. The fatigue brought on by the loss of one hour of sleep, especially if caused by something beyond your control, like the conversion to daylight savings time, barking dogs, or an addiction to late night TV. v. tr. To lose one hour of sleep.

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Springforlorn

picabomama

Created by: picabomama

Pronunciation: spring/for/lorn

Sentence: For days, Kelly was unable to get herself out of bed. The laundry piled up and her toddler began bouncing off the walls at all hours. Even without an early morning destination, they had become springforlorn and struggled to adjust to daylight savings time.

Etymology: a play on "Spring Forward", + forlorn - meaning miserable

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COMMENTS:

Different angle! Unique word play! - silveryaspen, 2008-03-12: 12:01:00

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Sixtyminutony

petaj

Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: sixty-min-you-tinny

Sentence: When the ticking clock at the end of the program started up, Glenda realised that her sixtyminutony had saved her from listening to Steve Kroft (Richard Carlton for Australian players) droning on. She wiped the drool from her chin and counted her blessings for missing an hour's sleep the night before. No offense to Steve Kroft, never even heard of him before, but thought I'd better find a 60 Minutes reporter that most verbotomists would be familiar with.

Etymology: sixty minutes + catatonia

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COMMENTS:

Your etymology fooled me! Thought the second word was going to be mutiny ... a rebellion against DST. Great idea and etymology! - silveryaspen, 2008-03-12: 10:00:00

Richard's zeditorials were often legendary. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-03-12: 16:38:00

petaj Mutiny would have been great - but I'm a DST supporter - wish we had it in Queensland. I should have got monotony in there too. - petaj, 2008-03-13: 03:37:00

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Mishoury

Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: miz ow ryy

Sentence: Her mizhoury was compounded by the fact that the song the students living next door had eventually blown their speakers playing (at 4.15am) was bouncing around in her head like a hot steel ball. (any suggestions?)

Etymology: misery hour

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COMMENTS:

Rock Around the Clock? Time keeps on slippin, slippin, slippin, into the future? Wake Up, Little Snoozy? - purpleartichokes, 2008-03-12: 07:25:00

Great embedding! Good pun! Meaning full! Outstanding! - silveryaspen, 2008-03-12: 09:57:00

In-a-gadda-da-vida would do it for me - impossible to sleep through that! - Jabberwocky, 2008-03-12: 15:54:00

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Hourbuckle

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: owr buck el

Sentence: Ode to the Hourbuckle... The inventor should be rapped on the knuckle, If not so sad, it would make you chuckle, Every year at this time, life is in a muckle, Thanks to Daylight Savings we all get Hourbuckle! Alarms and computers and your clock radio phone, Time clocks, cuckoos and watches are changed with a moan, It even affects our sleep and the Dow Jones, But my car clock stays stuck in another time zone!

Etymology: hour (clock time equal to 1/24th of a day) & buckle (fold or collapse)

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COMMENTS:

Ha! We must drive the same model car. - purpleartichokes, 2008-03-12: 07:27:00

Perfect blend of nonsense and great sense in your fine rhyme! Meaning full word! Wonderful won! - silveryaspen, 2008-03-12: 10:08:00

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Clockadoodulled

Created by: silveryaspen

Pronunciation: clock - a - dew - dulled

Sentence: It takes a clocksucker to come up with the clockamamie idea of daylight savings time. Darn clock-a-doodlers! I drag through the day clockadoodulled

Etymology: COCK-A-DOODLE-DOO and CLOCK! COCK-A-DOODLE-DOO: rooster's call, usually emitted at the break of dawn, waking you up too early. CLOCK: device for measuring time, including daylight savings time - and both are rigged to emit noise to get you up too early.

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COMMENTS:

nice one! - bigveg, 2008-03-12: 13:13:00

My kid has had croup all week. "Clockadoodulled" is exactly how I'm feeling. Great word. - Jamagra, 2008-03-12: 14:12:00

eggsellent - Jabberwocky, 2008-03-12: 15:56:00

Im cock-a-hoop about this one! Very clever; nice word. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-03-12: 16:39:00

Perhaps, I meant clock-a-hoop! Also, do the somnolent need to be saved from, "the endless sheep?" - OZZIEBOB, 2008-03-12: 16:58:00

Oops.I think I meant insomnolent! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-03-12: 20:38:00

Brilliance....sheer brilliance... - Biscotti, 2008-03-12: 20:57:00

been watching Deadwood, you clocksucker? (great word) - stache, 2008-03-12: 21:26:00

Ka-ching! looks like we have a winner! - stache, 2008-03-12: 21:27:00

Appreciate and enjoyed all your comments about these clock-eyed creations! - silveryaspen, 2008-03-13: 01:12:00

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Drowzzzzzy

artr

Created by: artr

Pronunciation: drouzē

Sentence: Spring forward is certainly not how Cindy feels every year when daylight-saving time is implemented. One hour shouldn’t mean that much but don’t tell Cindy that. She isn’t listening. If she is awake at all the best response you can expect is a yawn.

Etymology: drowsy (sleepy and lethargic; half asleep) + zzzzz (sleeping)

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Hindersomnia

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: hin der som nee yah

Sentence: Tyred Banks was someone who needed her full 8 hours per night of sleep. When deprived her personality changed. Many things gave her hindersomnia: stress;DST;Nick at Nite;cute dates;what happens to bugs in winter;economic worries. She was a Worrier Woman. But Tyred would probably have been the same early morning grouch no matter what until she got her first caffeine blitz, then life would be sweet...for everyone.

Etymology: Hinder (hinder or prevent the progress or accomplishment of) & (IN)somnia (an inability to sleep; chronic sleeplessness;assuming somnia means ability to sleep)

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Hiberhythm

Created by: OZZIEBOB

Pronunciation: hi-b'-RITH-uh m

Sentence: I can’t help it - it must be imprinted in my DNA- for at the end of winter each year my hiberhythms swing hourly. My dossitude, my workmates say, is tiresome and my wife tells me that, because of my zedginess, she will no longer sleep with me. I've tried to put the matter "to bed", but my shrink tells me that I'm only getting 37.5 winks.

Etymology: HIBERHYTHM: blend of HIBERnation:sleep, slumber, drowse esp in winter& RHYTHM, as in bio-rhythm - cycle, flow, movement, both negatively& postively. DOSSITUDE: doss, lassitude & attitude.ZEDGINESS: Zeds as sleep & edginess; nervous & irritability.

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COMMENTS:

Great last line in your sentence! Excellent triplets again! - silveryaspen, 2008-03-12: 09:47:00

very nice - Jabberwocky, 2008-03-12: 15:56:00

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Zzzszure

Created by: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: zees/zher

Sentence: Every March when daylight savings time takes away an hour of sleep, Colleen's body goes into a zzzszure for about a week until she adjusts to the new time zone.

Etymology: zzzs - sleep; seizure - breakdown, deprivation

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COMMENTS:

petaj very clever - petaj, 2008-03-12: 04:40:00

Great Pun! Great Word! - silveryaspen, 2008-03-12: 10:10:00

Zizzonked! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-03-12: 16:41:00

I snorted at this word! - arrrteest, 2008-03-12: 20:43:00

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Nappendectomy

Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: nap/end/ek/tomy

Sentence: To have one hour of sleep ripped heartlessly out of your schedule is to have a nappendectomy.

Etymology: nap + appendectomy

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COMMENTS:

Love it! - purpleartichokes, 2008-03-12: 08:28:00

Such a wide spread condition! I feel the same as you do in your sentence! Great create! - silveryaspen, 2008-03-12: 10:13:00

Stop cutting into my sleep. Nice wor...zzzz. ! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-03-12: 16:43:00

ouch. - stache, 2008-03-12: 21:20:00

so funny! - diyan627, 2008-03-15: 11:21:00

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Comments:

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2008-03-13: 00:01:00
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram. ~ James

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2008-03-12: 00:36:00
By the way we would have got this done earlier in the week, (i.e. Monday) but I was bit short on sleep. And remistram didn't think of the idea until Monday morning when her Boss yelled at her for coming to work in her pajamas. ~ James

remistram - 2008-03-12: 09:24:00
not true! the pajama part anyway....

purpleartichokes - 2008-03-12: 11:17:00
DLS didn't bother me a bit this year... I reset all the clocks in the house, except for the single one I forgot - the alarm clock. Oops.

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2008-03-12: 12:01:00
Remistram, I am glad to hear you didn't actually wear your pajamas to work. I guess, I must have just "made that up". I assume that it's part of the hazards of being a sleep-deprived creative writer. Thanks for all the funny ideas! And the wake-up call! ~ James

silveryaspen - 2008-03-12: 12:09:00
Not liking DST, I guess today I'll finally change the clocks! My computer and tv clocks have been at me to do it, too. I think remistram and James came up with today's apt definition and cartoon, just to remind me!!!

Jamagra - 2008-03-12: 14:09:00
Once my colleague got a speeding ticket in her jammies and bathrobe. She was driving to school for our "Right to Read Week" pajama party. Heh. Took her a while to live that one down. ~PS~ Loving the site, James. Thanks for all your work.

remistram - 2008-03-12: 15:26:00
Thanks James, I thought this def was timely...hehe...

stache - 2008-03-12: 22:59:00
EXcellent cartoon, James.

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2008-03-12: 23:42:00
Thanks for the wonderful words! ~ James

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2011-10-05: 00:06:00
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram. ~ James