Verboticisms

Created by: collinwashere2

Pronunciation: Starts off like Idea and then ends like insomnia.

Sentence: I have a bad case of Idomnia tonight.

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Created by: Mrgoodtimes

Pronunciation: uh tom nee uh dee uh

Sentence: Boom!! The explosion of a fledgling thought seed hitting her lobes could be heard on the other side of the king size bed. She knew this atomniadea would not let her sleep tonight.

Etymology: Atomic - Insomnia - Idea

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Created by: CanMon

Pronunciation:

Sentence: As I settled comfortably beneath my covers, snoozepiration hit and I found myself jumping out of bed to get back to work.

Etymology: Combination of Snooze and Inspiration.

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Created by: jedijawa

Pronunciation: thawt-mare

Sentence: Jill couldn't get to sleep because a thoughtmare was keeping her mind working too fast to get any rest.

Etymology: thought + nightmare

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COMMENTS:

Another great word! - Stevenson0, 2007-04-09: 20:48:00

I like the sound of this word, though I want to use it for the sorts of nonsensically horrifying idea-dreams that run through my head when I'm asleep enough to dream, but awake enough to know that the ideas don't make sense. - ErWenn, 2007-04-09: 22:47:00

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Created by: darkXshadow

Pronunciation: sub/kog/neet/ans

Sentence: one of my briliant subcognitans kept me up all night last night.

Etymology: sub coming from subito, meaning sudden. cogn coming from cognito, meaning knowledge. itans coming from suscitans, meaning awakening.

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Created by: OZZIEBOB

Pronunciation: ahy-dee-ap-NEE-uh

Sentence: Bob, a lateral-thinking, horror film addict, was woken a thousand times nightly by his ideapnea, including frightening bouts of zedlesspookia.

Etymology: IDEA: Thought, conception, notion & APNEA: a temporary suspension of breathing, occurring during sleep (sleep apnea)often waking the sufferer hundreds of times a night. With Bob it his crazy ideas that wake him up- ask Roxie.

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COMMENTS:

Wish I'd thought of it....great word! - Mustang, 2008-06-20: 06:10:00

great - Jabberwocky, 2008-06-20: 13:06:00

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Created by: toadstool57

Pronunciation: som-i-nix-on

Sentence: Nixion experienced many nights of soninixon as thoughts of Big scandels marched in his head.

Etymology: sominex, sleeping meds/ nix, as in Not/Nixion, the president that spent many sleepless nights.

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Created by: rikboyee

Pronunciation: you-ree-caff-een

Sentence: 3 nights in a row he suffered from such severe eurekaffeine that he felt like his brain may explode

Etymology: eureka! caffeine

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: in som nee a ha

Sentence: It's like Wayne's brain was frozen all day, but when he did get brilliant ideas, it was just before he was getting ready to sleep. Then he would get his insomniaha moment. He finally learned to write these brain revolutions down, as inevitably he would be so tired the next day that he would forget his inspirations. That's when he would get amnesiaohnooooo!

Etymology: Insomnia (an inability to sleep) & Aha (expression used to describe triumph, surprise or "I get it!")

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Created by: mscoxie

Pronunciation:

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Etymology: from ellen degeneres' stand up special...she realized when she got in bed that she might have left money in her pants and knew that if she didnt get it now, shed forget in the morning.

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