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DEFINITION: n. Strange sounds that keep you awake in the middle of the night. v. To lie in bed unable to sleep because you keep hearing weird sounds.
Verboticisms
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Nocturnemanations
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: nok-tern-em-eh-NAY-shuns
Sentence: The nocturnemanations that continuously emitted from the walls, the outdoors, the attic and unseen places kept Gladys on edge thru the night and made sleep impossible
Etymology: Blend of nocturnal (during the night) and emanations (. Something that issues from a source; an emission)
Insominous
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: in-som-i-nus
Sentence: Mary became insominous after she moved into her new apartment and heard the creepy noises. It was especially alarming when the Paranormal Society asked to film an episode of "Ghost Hunters" in her bedroom.
Etymology: insomnia: an inability to fall asleep or remain asleep + ominous: a frightening awareness of danger, an evil portent
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COMMENTS:
good word! - splendiction, 2009-06-24: 19:23:00
Very good! - Mustang, 2009-06-25: 01:18:00
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Insomniyack
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: in-som-nee-yak
Sentence: Tonight Joyce is an insomniac. Her boyfriend is having his weekly poker game with his buds. While they insomniyack in the other room she lays in bed, staring at the ceiling trying to not listen.
Etymology: insomniac (a person with an inability to sleep soundly) + yack (to talk, to chatter)
Insomniaudio
Created by: stache
Pronunciation: ĭn-sŏm'nē-ô'dē-ō'
Sentence: The irregular tapping of the branch of the old oak on the bedroom window became the insomniaudio, the percussion soundtrack of Beth's sleepless, windy Wednesday night.
Etymology: ins, var. of innies, type of belly button (see 'outies'); Omni, 1. science and space periodical, 2. former compact hatchback manufactured by the Dodge division of the pre-Benz Chrysler Corp, also released as the Plymouth Horizon; Audi, German manufacturer of, among other models, the A8 and TT; o, nil or zero.
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COMMENTS:
I like the sound of your word - Jabberwocky, 2008-05-12: 13:52:00
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Durping
Created by: illwordthat
Pronunciation: durp-ing
Sentence: "Honey I was durping last night...are you sure you wore your nose patch?"
Etymology: Slurping-sleeping-drippin-surfing
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COMMENTS:
Nice!!! - illwordthat, 2008-05-12: 00:54:00
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Nightbumps
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /ˈnaɪtˌbʌmps/
Sentence: We decided that the poltergeist haunting our house must be either blind or clumsy when the nightbumps started sounding more like night-bump-ow-crash-$#!+s.
Etymology: from "things that go bump in the night"
Dinsomnia
Created by: Tigger
Pronunciation: /din-SOM-nee-uh/
Sentence: Lying in bed and staring toward the ceiling, Michelle sighed again, kept awake by the dinsomnia that had plagued her every night this week. There were the 'creekity-creeks' that Jack had explained were just the roof beams contracting in the cooler evenings, the 'tick, tick, tick, hiss' of the hot water pipes, the faint 'thump, thump, thump' of the refrigerator in the kitchen, and the 'drip, drip' of the leaky bathroom faucet. But what on earth was that 'clankety, clank' noise that sounded like it was coming from the attic? It didn't fit in with the familiar nighttime rhythm, and Michelle winced every time she heard it.
Etymology: Din - sound with clamor or persistent repetition (from Old English, dyne "loud noise") + Insomnia - an inability to sleep; chronic sleeplessness (Latin, insomnia "want of sleep" from in- "not" + somnus "sleep")
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COMMENTS:
Great minds think alike...? Or is it fools seldom differ???? - Nosila, 2008-05-12: 02:13:00
So the saying goes, but to our mutual credit, I'd like to think that I'm a unique sort of fool. You decide. - Tigger, 2008-05-12: 02:37:00
had to give you a vote each in the interests of fairness. - galwaywegian, 2008-05-12: 12:00:00
Too kind, galwaywegian, thanks! - Nosila, 2008-05-12: 19:26:00
Clever blend! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-05-13: 07:26:00
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Cacoffiny
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: ka kofff in eeeeee
Sentence: The cacoffiny continued with the creaking hinge noise followed by the floorboard creaking noise and the strangest musty smell........
Etymology: cacophony coffin
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COMMENTS:
ok...I'm now sppoked! - Nosila, 2010-07-14: 00:00:00
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Nocturnacoustics
Created by: splendiction
Pronunciation: knock turn a COOS tics
Sentence: “CREEEeee-k”. Bethany stirred, unable to sleep with the nocturnacoustics scattering in her small room of the rooming house. The house was over 100 years old! Of course it would generate it’s own nighttime clamour, what with it’s original plumbing, wood flooring and coal furnace. She’d have to get earplugs.
Etymology: From nocturnal and acoustics.
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COMMENTS:
great word!! - mweinmann, 2009-06-24: 22:48:00
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Bumpfright
Created by: abrakadeborah
Pronunciation: bump-frite
Sentence: Somania was frozen with fear and unable to sleep with the constant bumpfright all through the night.
Etymology: Bump- A knocking sound in the middle of the night. Fright- To be afraid...very afraid and can't move. ;)
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