Verboticisms

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: 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: 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: 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: 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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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: 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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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: 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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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: 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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