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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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Knockturnalnozees
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: nok/tur/nal/no/zees
Sentence: Once again I stumbled out of bed, blurry eyed and sleepless after all the racket from the knockturnalnozees.
Etymology: nocturnal + noise + knock + no zzzs
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COMMENTS:
Clever blend. Great verboticism - Mustang, 2008-05-12: 23:08:00
Covers the whole gamut. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-05-13: 07:20:00
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Nighthowl
Created by: jrogan
Pronunciation: night-howl
Sentence: Jennifer couldn't sleep because of the nighthowls coming from her neighbour's bedroom window
Etymology: night+ howl
Dissomnance
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: diss-som-nance
Sentence: Valda thought her inability to sleep was just a temporary case of dissomnance during the windy weather, but in fact she had been turned into a vampire. She would never sleep at night ever again.
Etymology: dis- (against/opposite) + somn- (sleep) + sonance (sound) + dissonance (unpleasant sound)
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COMMENTS:
perfect for the cartoon - Jabberwocky, 2008-05-12: 13:54:00
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Insomniyaketyyak
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: in/som/ni/yaketee/yak
Sentence: Sally couldn't get any sleep because her partner talked constantly. She was a victim of insomniyaketyyak
Etymology: insomniac + yakety yak
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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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)
Insomniyack
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: in-som-nee-yak
Sentence: Tonight Joyce is an insomniac. Her boyfriend is having his weekly poker game with his buds. While they insomniyack in the other room she lays in bed, staring at the ceiling trying to not listen.
Etymology: insomniac (a person with an inability to sleep soundly) + yack (to talk, to chatter)
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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Nocturnemanations
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: nock - tern - em - uh - 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 and emanations.
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COMMENTS:
a bit of a tongue twister but nice blend - Jabberwocky, 2008-05-12: 13:55:00
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Nightbumps
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /ˈnaɪtˌbʌmps/
Sentence: We decided that the poltergeist haunting our house must be either blind or clumsy when the nightbumps started sounding more like night-bump-ow-crash-$#!+s.
Etymology: from "things that go bump in the night"
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