Verboticisms

Created by: mana1066

Pronunciation: nokt-ank-er-ring

Sentence: The constant noctankerings and the free donuts at work were the two biggest factors in Humphrey's weight problem

Etymology: nocturnal + hankering

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Sounds like the noctankering turned Humphrey into a tank. - wordmeister, 2007-03-27: 00:53:00

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Created by: jedijawa

Pronunciation: bed-time-binge

Sentence: Joe often became peckish for a quick bite resulting in a bedtimebinge.

Etymology: bedtime + binge

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Created by: PythianHabenero

Pronunciation: cre-pizza-lation

Sentence: Crepizzulation led Bob to pick up some twilight pizza.

Etymology: "Crepuscular" + "pizza" + appropriate suffixes.

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Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: bowlt/dozer

Sentence: As soon as dusk fell he became a boltdozer, wolfing down any junk food in sight - he eventually married a short order chef

Etymology: bolt (to eat hurriedly) + dozer (sleeper)also refers to bulldozer

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COMMENTS:

I hope he keeps a dump truck beside the bed - porsche, 2007-03-26: 12:24:00

ha ha - as long as the manufacturer is caterpillar (stress on the cater) - Jabberwocky, 2007-03-26: 12:34:00

Isn't tht what you rest your head on while consuming the catering? - petaj, 2007-03-27: 04:44:00

pillar - very funny - you have a wicked sense of humour Petaj - Jabberwocky, 2007-03-27: 06:15:00

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Created by: mrskellyscl

Pronunciation: bed-dy-bite

Sentence: Little Joey was used to having a beddybite before he went beddybye. Unfortunately, little Joey wasn't so little anymore and his beddybite was going to give him such heartburn.

Etymology: beddybye+bite: beddybye -- a phrase used by mothers to their children at bed time + bite: a light snack or meal

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COMMENTS:

Good word! - splendiction, 2009-10-12: 22:27:00

clever word! - mweinmann, 2009-10-13: 23:34:00

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Created by: TJayzz

Pronunciation: Slum-bur-snak

Sentence: Colin woke up with a sudden urge for something to eat, in fact he was so hungry he jumped out of bed and headed straight for the fridge. After a few minutes he had got through half a cooked chicken, four sausage rolls and a large slice of leftover chocolate cake. It wasn't so much a slumbersnack as a full course meal.

Etymology: Slumber(Sleep) + Snack (quantity of food eaten between meals) ORIGIN Dutch from snacken 'to bite'. = Slumbersnack

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COMMENTS:

I'm a slumbersnack and I'm okay I eat all night and I work all day He's a slumbersnack and he's okay He eats all night and he works all day (couldn't resist the Monty Python reference) - Jabberwocky, 2008-07-11: 12:41:00

Was wondering if anyone out there would remember that Monty Python song. - TJayzz, 2008-07-11: 14:09:00

Great! Makes ME want a slumbersnack! - lumina, 2008-07-11: 20:39:00

I cut down trees,I wear high heels, suspenders and a bra; I wish I'd been a girlie, just like my old Papa! No, I don't remember it or the Mountie back-up singers at all... - Nosila, 2008-07-11: 22:55:00

Sorry- I'm deliberately wasting your time. - metrohumanx, 2008-07-13: 21:48:00

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Created by: galwaywegian

Pronunciation: orrrr eeeee emmmmmmm

Sentence: His bouts of remmmmmmmmmmm coincided with bouts of yummnambulation

Etymology: r.e.m MMMMMMMMMM!

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COMMENTS:

Remmmmmmmmerable word! - Nosila, 2009-10-12: 22:19:00

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Created by: suzanne

Pronunciation: bed-s-br-e-d

Sentence: after an attack of bedsbread i clept with jam on my lip.

Etymology:

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Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: dream-bun

Sentence: Guthrie always succumbed to dreambunning. It led to the collapse of his marriage due to crumbreconcilable differences in the bed room.

Etymology: cream bun (my favourite tuck shop treat when I was a kid) + dream (something one does at bedtime + something one yearns for)

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Created by: airlie

Pronunciation: snak-uh-MAY-nee-ah

Sentence: It wasn't that he dull. It wasn't that he was bald, yet hairy at the same time. It wasn't even that he snored and smacked his lips when he ate. It was that he ate impulsively and urgently, and so often in bed that drove the poor woman mad. Thomas's frequent pre-slumber snackomania irritated the living daylights out of Miriam, more than the crumbs that ended up in the bed. His nocturnal tachyphagus tendencies were really trying her patience... Rat poison featured too often in her dreames. Something had to give...

Etymology: SNACK: a small portion of food or drink or a light meal, esp. one eaten between regular meals, + MANIA: an exaggerated desire or enthusiasm for.

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COMMENTS:

You crack me up, airlie. - metrohumanx, 2008-07-13: 21:38:00

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