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DEFINITION: n. Strange sounds that keep you awake in the middle of the night. v. To lie in bed unable to sleep because you keep hearing weird sounds.
Verboticisms
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Cacoffiny
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: ka kofff in eeeeee
Sentence: The cacoffiny continued with the creaking hinge noise followed by the floorboard creaking noise and the strangest musty smell........
Etymology: cacophony coffin
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COMMENTS:
ok...I'm now sppoked! - Nosila, 2010-07-14: 00:00:00
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Heffabump
Created by: youmustvotenato
Pronunciation: heff-a-bump
Sentence: I could hear the heffabumps made by the heffalumps, shuffling in my closet.
Etymology: heffalump, a mystical creature. Bump, a sound usually made in the night.
Audionocturn
Created by: pieceof314
Pronunciation: aw-dee-oh-nok-tern
Sentence: Jen stared at the spot on the wall directly above her head where the spider was half an hour ago. She became rigid each time she heard the creaking of the house as it contracted in the cool night air. The shades gently moved back and forth in the draft of the window sills. She was paralized by the audionocturnic noise that the old house emitted as the night wore on.
Etymology: audio, sound + nocturnal, of the night
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COMMENTS:
Have had nights like those... - Nosila, 2008-05-12: 19:24:00
Interesting! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-05-13: 07:23:00
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Nocturnemissions
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: nok-term-eh-NAY-shuns
Sentence: A worry wart and easily frightened, Wanda often lost lots of sleep due to the seemingly neverending unidentifiable nocturnemissions that resounded from the walls and from unknown sources from outside her bedroom window.
Etymology: Blend of nocturnal and emissions
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COMMENTS:
Great word! - splendiction, 2009-06-24: 19:19:00
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Nocturnemanations
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: nok-tern-em-eh-NAY-shuns
Sentence: The nocturnemanations that continuously emitted from the walls, the outdoors, the attic and unseen places kept Gladys on edge thru the night and made sleep impossible
Etymology: Blend of nocturnal (during the night) and emanations (. Something that issues from a source; an emission)
Creakese
Created by: arrrteest
Pronunciation: creek - eez
Sentence: The house was speaking its creepy creakease with all its settling and contracting in the night. Wide-eyed and drowsily alert maggie lie in bed imagining ghosts and gobblins milling about.
Etymology: creak, sound of a rusty gate or noisy floorboards + ese, of a language
Imagounds
Created by: Moonstar
Pronunciation: Image-ounds
Sentence: Vicky lie awake, staring up[ at the ceiling, eyes wide. Her breathing quickend as even more imagounds entered the room. There was a small thump, a squeak, a creak, a skitter. What was that!? Could it be....Yes, yes it was! The sound of a heartbeat, a HUMAN heartbeat! She sat up straight in bed, her hand on the knife she had kept stored beneath her pillow, ready to strike-but there was no one there.
Etymology: Imagined, as in the act of imagining, + Sounds, as in noises.
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COMMENTS:
Poe-etic tense to it! - Nosila, 2010-07-13: 23:59:00
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Cacoffiny
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: kak off inn eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
Sentence: That creaking cacoffiny coming from the attic, allied to the movement of the curtains on the hermetically sealed window led the countess to feel the need to account for the death of her husband. Unaccountably her countenance grew troubled.
Etymology: cacophony, coffin.
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COMMENTS:
Eerily good! - Tigger, 2008-05-13: 01:24:00
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Durping
Created by: illwordthat
Pronunciation: durp-ing
Sentence: "Honey I was durping last night...are you sure you wore your nose patch?"
Etymology: Slurping-sleeping-drippin-surfing
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COMMENTS:
Nice!!! - illwordthat, 2008-05-12: 00:54:00
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