Verboticism: Zzzszure

'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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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!