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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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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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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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Drowzzzzzy
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)
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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Snoozicide
Created by: youmustvotenato
Pronunciation: snooze-i-side
Sentence: Daylight savings time--spent the day snoozicided.
Etymology: snooze; suicide
Springahaggard
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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Somnambitosis
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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Circatastrophe
Created by: FreakyDeak
Pronunciation: Sir-Ca-tass-troe-fee
Sentence:
Etymology: Circadian Rhythm + Catastrophe
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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Comments:
Verbotomy - 2008-03-13: 00:01:00
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram. ~ James
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 - 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 - 2008-03-12: 23:42:00
Thanks for the wonderful words! ~ James
Verbotomy - 2011-10-05: 00:06:00
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram. ~ James