Verboticism: Slumberumples
DEFINITION: n., The deep red lines and/or furrows, which appear on a person's face after they have slept on wrinkled or creased bed sheets. v., To wake up and discover that your face matches your wrinkled bed sheets.
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Sheethickey
Created by: remistram
Pronunciation: sheet-hik-ee
Sentence: The sheethickeys on her face and the hickeys on her neck left from her boyfriend were reminders of a great time but prevented her from facing her co-workers the next day.
Etymology: sheet + hickey (red mark left on the skin)
Slumburrows
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: slum-ber-rohs
Sentence: Wendy tried to make it look like she'd been up-and-at-'em for hours, but the bedvidence of her recently sleeping was clearly written in the slumburrows of her face.
Etymology: slumber, burrows
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COMMENTS:
Excellent verboticism!! - Mustang, 2007-11-26: 07:02:00
Nice word! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-11-26: 20:50:00
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Proofonodz
Created by: metrohumanx
Pronunciation: PROO-fuh-nodz
Sentence: "You can't sleep at the circulation desk !" screamed EvilPat at the bored, bleary-eyed library assistant. " I WASN"T sleeping !" he replied with the standard look of indignation. "But there are PROOFONODZ all over your face !" replied EvilPat, in her best administrative patois. Faced with such irrefutable evidence, the chastised library assistant crafted an appropriate sign for the desk: "PLEASE WAKE ATTENDANT FOR SERVICE".....and drifted off to sleep with a clear conscience.
Etymology: PROOF+(of)+NOD+(catch some) Zs= PROOFONODZ.....Proof: the cogency of evidence that compels acceptance by the mind of a truth or a fact,something that induces certainty or establishes validity;Middle English prof, prove, alteration of preve, from Anglo-French preove, from Late Latin proba, from Latin probare to prove....."O": tastless substitute for the word "OF", usually seen in pretentious advertising:(cup o soup,bac o bits,etc)....NOD:To fall asleep,to make a quick downward motion of the head (as from drowsiness);Middle English nodden; perhaps akin to Old High German hnotōn to shake.....Z: suffix brashly used to imply pluralization (in a tacky way)derived from the slang expression "catch some Zs"-meaning to sleep. Pretty farfetched combination, eh?
Pritters
Created by: glamgal23
Pronunciation: pritt-ers
Sentence: I woke up with pritters on my face from the pillow.
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Fortywrinks
Created by: hendrixius
Pronunciation: /for-tee-rinks/
Sentence: While catching a nap during her lunch break, Sarah awoke to find carpet related fortywrinks all about her face.
Etymology: "forty-winks" and "wrinkles"
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COMMENTS:
Good word! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-11-26: 20:36:00
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Wakeover
Created by: yellowbird
Pronunciation: wake-oh-ver
Sentence: Marge got the worst wakeover of her life while sleeping in a guest bed with an embroidered Tigger on the pillowcase.
Etymology: makeover + awaken
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COMMENTS:
And what's so awful about walking around with a 'Tigger' impression on her face, Hmm? - Tigger, 2007-11-26: 11:20:00
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Slumberumples
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: slum ber rum pulls
Sentence: On the morning after their honeymoon started, Wilma awoke with a bad case of the slumberumples...big red lines all over her face. Her groom, Will, thought it cute and endearing. Wilma ran to the bathroom and spent over an hour doing her ablutions. When she emerged, her smooth, creamy complexion had returned. She turned off the lights before she joined him in bed each evening. It took Will many years to realize that Wilma's skin had slumberumples 24/7 and during her morning routine, she was actually applying enough war paint and concealer to hide the awful truth. Yes, she had been born with what looked like a road map imbedded on the largest organ in her body...
Etymology: Slumber (be asleep)& Rumples (become wrinkled or crumpled or creased;to gather something into small wrinkles or folds)
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Sleepdeepleation
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: deep/pleet/shun
Sentence: Sally suffered from such severe sleepdeepleation that she had to go to a sleep disorder clinic where the patients were suspended like bats to prevent any nasty folds.
Etymology: sleep + deep + pleat + sleep depletion
Ripvanwrinkle
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: rip-van-WRING-kuhl
Sentence: After having forty winks which seemed like forty years to her, Roxie was horrified on waking to find her face ripvanwrinkled in a deep red phizgrid.
Etymology: Ripvanwrinkle: blend of wrinkle & Rip Van Winkle, an Irving Washington character who slept for 20 years. Phizgrid: Conflation of phiz: slang for face from physiognomy & grid: a network of crossing horizontal and vertical lines.
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COMMENTS:
great minds and all that - that was the first word that sprang to my mind - so many good words today - Jabberwocky, 2007-11-26: 13:18:00
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Rumpledsheetskin
Created by: porsche
Pronunciation: rumpled/sheet/skin
Sentence: Rumpledsheetskin is a malady that affects nearly everyone I know.
Etymology: rumpled + sheet + skin + Rumplestiltskin
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COMMENTS:
Great word porsche! Perfectly describes it. - purpleartichokes, 2007-11-26: 18:23:00
Does indeed. Great word! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-11-26: 20:43:00
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