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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.
Verboticisms
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Bugghoured
Created by: bigveg
Pronunciation: bug-ou-rd
Sentence: boss: why do you have little square imprints all over your face? have you been sleeping on your keyboard again? employee: sorry boss, but a tree fell through my roof at 6am and i'm bugghoured!
Etymology: buggered: exhausted; worn out - hour
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COMMENTS:
Witty! Funny! Clever! - silveryaspen, 2008-03-12: 12:03:00
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Sixtyminutony
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
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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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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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:
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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Remerie
Created by: Jamagra
Pronunciation: rem'/e/ree
Sentence: Quentin emerged from his REMerie with a crick in his neck and keyboard indentations on his forehead. He hoped these would both disappear before his 1:00 meeting with Les, otherwise he would have to bear another round of "QWERTY Quentin" jokes.
Etymology: REM - (rapid eye movement during sleep) + reverie (a state of abstracted musing)
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COMMENTS:
Unique etymology and word! - silveryaspen, 2008-03-12: 09:55:00
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Unsatisleeption
Created by: maloycsp
Pronunciation: un-sa-tis-leep-tion
Sentence: Janie was woken an hour too early by dogs barking next door. As a result of this, throughout the day she experienced unsatisleeption at being woken too early.
Etymology: Unsatisfaction + sleep
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COMMENTS:
nice - Jabberwocky, 2008-03-12: 15:58:00
Unique! - silveryaspen, 2008-03-13: 00:05:00
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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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Narcambulism
Created by: IrishAmerican
Pronunciation: nar-KAM-bu-lisum
Sentence: The survivors of the all night party stumbled into the streets, walking shades of narcambulism, off to spill coffee, drop files, and blink slowly.
Etymology: The shamble of the living undead.
Circatastrophe
Created by: FreakyDeak
Pronunciation: Sir-Ca-tass-troe-fee
Sentence:
Etymology: Circadian Rhythm + Catastrophe
Clockstraphobia
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: clok - struh - fo - bee - ya
Sentence: Arlene both feared and hated the twice yearly time changes and suffered severe clockstraphobia resulting in crabbiness and irritability.
Etymology: Clock plus phobia
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COMMENTS:
Good one, Mustang, even a broken clock is right twice a day! - Nosila, 2008-03-12: 02:01:00
Terrific! - silveryaspen, 2008-03-12: 10:09:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram. ~ James
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.
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.
Thanks for the wonderful words! ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram. ~ James