Verboticism: Mishoury

'You had to get up an hour earlier?'

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.

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Mishoury

Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: miz ow ryy

Sentence: Her mizhoury was compounded by the fact that the song the students living next door had eventually blown their speakers playing (at 4.15am) was bouncing around in her head like a hot steel ball. (any suggestions?)

Etymology: misery hour

Points: 902

Comments: Mishoury

purpleartichokes - 2008-03-12: 07:25:00
Rock Around the Clock? Time keeps on slippin, slippin, slippin, into the future? Wake Up, Little Snoozy?

silveryaspen - 2008-03-12: 09:57:00
Great embedding! Good pun! Meaning full! Outstanding!

Jabberwocky - 2008-03-12: 15:54:00
In-a-gadda-da-vida would do it for me - impossible to sleep through that!