Verboticism: Zzzszure
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.
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
Points: 818
Comments: Zzzszure
petaj - 2008-03-12: 04:40:00
very clever
silveryaspen - 2008-03-12: 10:10:00
Great Pun! Great Word!
OZZIEBOB - 2008-03-12: 16:41:00
Zizzonked!
arrrteest - 2008-03-12: 20:43:00
I snorted at this word!