Verboticism: Bedgehog
DEFINITION: v. To allow your pet to sleep in your bed even though it may squirrel into your pillows, hog all the sheets, and bulldoze you on to the floor. n. A pet which sleeps in its owner's bed.
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Menagerieatrois
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: men aj aree a twa
Sentence: Have you herd? When Oxsana and Bronco had adopted Elsie, the little cow had curled up on their bed. But now as a full-grown cow, she was udderly too big. Oxsana found that her sheets rustled, she got a cramp in her calf and she was never in the mooed. Her main beef was that Bronco would never become a fodder and they could never live happily heifer after.
Etymology: Menagerie (collection of animals) & Wordplay on Ménage à trois (French for sex between 3 people or three people sharing a household)
Snugglemugger
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: snəgəlməgər
Sentence: Rudy limped into work suffering muscle aches and sore joints having been animauled by his not-so-tiny mastiff the night before. It seemed very cute when his little puppy wanted to sleep in the bed. Now he is a snugglemugger.
Etymology: snuggle (settle or move into a warm, comfortable position) + mugger (a person who attacks and robs another in a public place)
Menagerieatrois
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: men aj er ee a twa
Sentence: When Angus moved in with Cattelena, he herd that her bovine was to menagerieatrois with them. Sometimes he wondered about the hayrrangement. Suddenly, phrases like "Hit the Hay", "BedSpread","Rustling the sheets", "Udder ecstasy","Ride a Limousin" and "DetOX" took on a whole new meaning for him. And many's a night he awoke Friesian because someone had steered the covers off him or he had a very sharp pain in his calf! Every morning, there was a stampede for the bathroom. At this rate,he would never be a fodder. Cud this couple live happily heifer after?
Etymology: Menagerie (zoo) & Menage a Trois (threesome)
Smushjunkie
Created by: IrishAmerican
Pronunciation: SMUSH'-jun'-key
Sentence: "Good grief! there are so many animals and stuffed dolls on the bed there's no room for me! You're a total Smushjunkie! You know that, don't you?! I'm sleeping on the couch ..."
Etymology: a person who has a pathological need for reassurance of their value by insisting on having multiple cuddles affixed to them as they sleep; a junkie for being smushed.
Anthropetdormphic
Created by: Jamagra
Pronunciation: an/throw/pet/dorm/fic
Sentence: The anthropetdormphic couple feared schnuffocating their schnauzers while schnuggling.
Etymology: anthropomorphic + pet + dormire (L "to sleep"); anthropetdormphize(v); anthropetdormpher(n) - the animal sleeping quite comfortably in the bed; anthropetdormphee (n., var.) - the person wide awake and uncomfortable
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COMMENTS:
SchNIFTY creations! - silveryaspen, 2008-03-13: 10:46:00
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Capetulate
Created by: stache
Pronunciation: kə-pěch'ə-lāt'
Sentence: Cindy's cat Nigel was so used to sleeping with her that she and Tim were forced to capetulate when he started sleeping over.
Etymology: capitulate, to surrender unconditionally + (to one's) pet
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COMMENTS:
The one letter changes embedding one word in another are ever so clerver. Excellent! - silveryaspen, 2008-03-13: 21:55:00
It's the year of the cat; sorry the rat. Perhaps there hope yet! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-03-13: 22:09:00
excellent - bookowl, 2008-03-14: 14:29:00
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Insowmnia
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: In - sow - mmm - nee - ah
Sentence: Clarise the pig owned the bed. Ever since she was a piglet, she had been allowed to sleep in between Joyce and Phil and as she became larger, it became more and more difficult to sleep. Clarise constantly rolled over during the night, made loud hog snores, hogged the sheets, and squished them; leaving both of them with a horrible case of insowmnia.
Etymology: Insomnia (an inability to sleep, chronic sleeplessness) + Sow (An adult female hog)
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COMMENTS:
Still chuckling over the way you hammed it up. Hog snores! I can hear the noisy swhine over here. Cheers ... here's a glass of s-wine! - silveryaspen, 2009-01-06: 11:13:00
How now brown sow....cheers!! - mweinmann, 2009-01-06: 14:41:00
It's not a boaring story...it's a wiener! - Nosila, 2009-01-06: 23:27:00
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Spoilcat
Created by: Biscotti
Pronunciation: spoy-el-kat
Sentence: Phoenix was a bad spoilcat. She got to sleep in the bed with Andy and Mary every night no matter what; which made certain things a little harder to do.
Etymology: spoil (to treat well beyond what is deserved) + cat (a specific pet)
Somnanimalism
Created by: Prostheta
Pronunciation: Som-nan-nee-mal-ism
Sentence: Astrid's somnanimalist tendencies precluded her ability to function as a normal human being.
Etymology: Somna - to fall asleep. Animal - mobile multicellular organism.
