Verboticisms

Created by: libertybelle

Pronunciation: ow-err-zaw-st-shun

Sentence: It was clear to everyone in Sunday mass that Gina not only slept in to make up daylight saving time, but her ensemble of last nights curlers and her church dress were telling signs of her hourxaustion.

Etymology: hour + exhaustion

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COMMENTS:

Good one! - silveryaspen, 2008-03-12: 10:15:00

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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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Created by: stache

Pronunciation: när'kə-lāp'sē

Sentence: Gertrude blearily stumbled toward the coffee bar. She needed a "Big-Gulp-"sized shot of expresso to assuage her narcolapsy.

Etymology: narcolepsy + lapse

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COMMENTS:

great word Stache - Jabberwocky, 2008-03-12: 15:58:00

Thanks! We yanks have to really strain; the Europeans get to cherry-pick while we slumber. - stache, 2008-03-12: 21:14:00

Great choice of words ... Witty ... Wonderful verboticism! - silveryaspen, 2008-03-13: 00:09:00

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Created by: Tigger

Pronunciation: /NAP-ee-ou-er/

Sentence: Every year, after the Daylight Savings Time shift, Barbara would experience a bout of nappyhour, the lethargy brought on by missing an hour of 'sleepy time.' It was more of a psychological factor, and combined with the longer hours of sunlight, she never felt fully rested until she got that hour back once Daylight Savings Time ended, several months later.

Etymology: Play on the term 'Happy hour': Nappy - baby speak for 'nap' (from Middle High German, napfen "to sleep") + hour - sixty minutes (from Greek, hōrā "time")

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COMMENTS:

Great word Tigger! Sincerely, "Barbara" - purpleartichokes, 2008-03-12: 08:37:00

So appealing to the child in our hearts! Darling creation! - silveryaspen, 2008-03-12: 10:02:00

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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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Created by: purpleartichokes

Pronunciation: spring-ah-hag-gurd

Sentence: Daylight Savings Time always left Alice springahaggard. This year, she poured her coffee directly into the sugar bowl, washed her hair with shaving cream, and ate a tasty bowl of Kibbles 'N' Bits for breakfast.

Etymology: spring ahead, haggard

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COMMENTS:

Poor Alice! You sure took her out of Wonderland into Springahaggard Land! Kudos to your mind for dreaming up that sentence! Great Word! - silveryaspen, 2008-03-12: 09:53:00

funny - Jabberwocky, 2008-03-12: 15:55:00

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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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Created by: arrrteest

Pronunciation: sohm-nam-bih-toess-iss

Sentence: Edward was blind and deaf to the snickers as he walked past the bevy of cubicles on the way to the coffee machine. "Watch out, don't get in his way," a co-worker warned a newbie who was about to fix Ed's collar. "He's suffering from somnambitosis." It was then everyone looked up at the office clock that had not yet been set one hour ahead.

Etymology: somnamb, sleepwalk + it +osis, state of a medical condition

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COMMENTS:

Great Originality! - silveryaspen, 2008-03-12: 10:04:00

I wondered what the collective term for "cubicle" was. Thanks! - stache, 2008-03-12: 21:22:00

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Created by: youmustvotenato

Pronunciation: snooze-i-side

Sentence: Daylight savings time--spent the day snoozicided.

Etymology: snooze; suicide

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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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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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Created by: FreakyDeak

Pronunciation: Sir-Ca-tass-troe-fee

Sentence:

Etymology: Circadian Rhythm + Catastrophe

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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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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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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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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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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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Created by: Biscotti

Pronunciation: ow-er-glas-sin-drome

Sentence: Vicki had horrible hourglassyndrome after using that extra hour to party instead of sleep. Too bad it was spring and she actually lost an hour; needless to say she was several hours late to work the next day.

Etymology: hourglass + syndrome (illness)

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COMMENTS:

Great Etymology! Nice figuring! - silveryaspen, 2008-03-13: 00:07:00

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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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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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nice - Jabberwocky, 2008-03-12: 15:58:00

Unique! - silveryaspen, 2008-03-13: 00:05:00

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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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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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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.

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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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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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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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