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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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Heffabump
Created by: youmustvotenato
Pronunciation: heff-a-bump
Sentence: I could hear the heffabumps made by the heffalumps, shuffling in my closet.
Etymology: heffalump, a mystical creature. Bump, a sound usually made in the night.
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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Insoundmia
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: in saond meea
Sentence: Bella was having trouble falling into the arms of Morpheus, because she could hear every little creak and groan in the old house. When this insoundmia finally abated, she fell into a fitful sleep and dreamt bizarre dreams of her being up at the bat at the Breaking Dawn.
Etymology: Insomnia (sleeplessness) & Sound (auditory noise)
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)
Audionocturn
Created by: pieceof314
Pronunciation: aw-dee-oh-nok-tern
Sentence: Jen stared at the spot on the wall directly above her head where the spider was half an hour ago. She became rigid each time she heard the creaking of the house as it contracted in the cool night air. The shades gently moved back and forth in the draft of the window sills. She was paralized by the audionocturnic noise that the old house emitted as the night wore on.
Etymology: audio, sound + nocturnal, of the night
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COMMENTS:
Have had nights like those... - Nosila, 2008-05-12: 19:24:00
Interesting! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-05-13: 07:23:00
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Apprehensound
Created by: rebelvin
Pronunciation: APPREHENsion+SOUND
Sentence: Just when you want to sleep, especially if you are alone, the apprehensounding begins, and you have to account for them all before you can relax.
Etymology: APPREHENsion+SOUND
Threeoclick
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: Thrēōklik
Sentence: When he inherited his uncle's house Tom didn't know he had also inherited a threeoclick. At precisely 3 o'clock every night, the house would emit a distinct clicking sound. It only lasts a few seconds but is quite enough to wake him. Despite his best his best efforts he cannot find its source. The next click you hear may be Tom's mind snapping.
Etymology: 3 o'clock (an un-goddly hour) + click (a short, sharp sound as of a switch being operated or of two hard objects coming quickly into contact)
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COMMENTS:
good one - Jabberwocky, 2009-06-24: 15:04:00
very clever - splendiction, 2009-06-24: 19:20:00
clever word....made me laugh...describes it exactly - mweinmann, 2009-06-24: 22:49:00
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Nighthowl
Created by: jrogan
Pronunciation: night-howl
Sentence: Jennifer couldn't sleep because of the nighthowls coming from her neighbour's bedroom window
Etymology: night+ howl
Creakese
Created by: arrrteest
Pronunciation: creek - eez
Sentence: The house was speaking its creepy creakease with all its settling and contracting in the night. Wide-eyed and drowsily alert maggie lie in bed imagining ghosts and gobblins milling about.
Etymology: creak, sound of a rusty gate or noisy floorboards + ese, of a language
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