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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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Creepsitation
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: creeps-i-ta-tion
Sentence: Sue endured several long nights of creepsitation until she discovered that the dog had found a bag of corn chips and was eating them under the bed.
Etymology: creeps: a sensation of fear or repugnance as if your skin was crawling + crepitation: snapping or crackling noises
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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Creepualize
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: creep/oo/uh/eyes
Sentence: Lying awake in the middle of the night, sometimes my mind wanders and I creepualize myself into hysterics with any unusual sounds.
Etymology: creep oneself out + visualize
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COMMENTS:
Good one. - Mustang, 2009-06-25: 01:19:00
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Oddiability
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: odd ee abil it ee
Sentence: Diurna woke up every morning absolutely drained. Just after she drifted off each evening, she experienced oddiability, that sense she heard weird noises that set her imagination into overdrive. The sensation also left her with the remnants of strange dreams. Casey at the bat, waiting for the vampire's ruling on a play, flying mice...
Etymology: Odd ( not easily explained;beyond or deviating from the usual or expected) & Ability ( possession of the qualities (especially mental qualities) required to do something or get something done) & Audible (heard or perceptible by the ear)
Insomnoises
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: in som noy zes
Sentence: Morphea Wakemore had moved into her first new house recently. She loved the location, the layout and features of the new place. It was an older home, with a colorful past, but it gave her the character she wanted. Everything was perfect except for the insomnoises. She might drop off at her regular bedtime, but every night at 2:45 am the sounds started. Creepy, strange and eerie noises that kept her awake for the rest of the night. When she checked with her realtor, she was assured this was a common complaint in her new home town of Amityville.
Etymology: Insomnia (an inability to sleep; chronic sleeplessness)& Noises (sound of any kind (especially unintelligible or dissonant sound)
Dissomnance
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: diss-som-nance
Sentence: Valda thought her inability to sleep was just a temporary case of dissomnance during the windy weather, but in fact she had been turned into a vampire. She would never sleep at night ever again.
Etymology: dis- (against/opposite) + somn- (sleep) + sonance (sound) + dissonance (unpleasant sound)
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COMMENTS:
perfect for the cartoon - Jabberwocky, 2008-05-12: 13:54:00
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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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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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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)
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)
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