Verboticism: Sixtyminutony
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.
Sixtyminutony
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: sixty-min-you-tinny
Sentence: When the ticking clock at the end of the program started up, Glenda realised that her sixtyminutony had saved her from listening to Steve Kroft (Richard Carlton for Australian players) droning on. She wiped the drool from her chin and counted her blessings for missing an hour's sleep the night before. No offense to Steve Kroft, never even heard of him before, but thought I'd better find a 60 Minutes reporter that most verbotomists would be familiar with.
Etymology: sixty minutes + catatonia
Points: 872
Comments: Sixtyminutony
silveryaspen - 2008-03-12: 10:00:00
Your etymology fooled me! Thought the second word was going to be mutiny ... a rebellion against DST. Great idea and etymology!
OZZIEBOB - 2008-03-12: 16:38:00
Richard's zeditorials were often legendary.
petaj - 2008-03-13: 03:37:00
Mutiny would have been great - but I'm a DST supporter - wish we had it in Queensland. I should have got monotony in there too.