Verboticism: Napsnack
DEFINITION: n. A sudden, uncontrollable desire to eat something fast, usually occurs at bedtime. v. To eat food while lying in bed.
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Nightnibble
Created by: Osomatic
Pronunciation: night + nibble
Sentence: I nightnibble all the time, it's why I'm so fat.
Etymology: Um, night and nibble. Together. I know, it's not very good.
Snackattack
Created by: Javeson1
Pronunciation: snack attack
Sentence: If i go to bed after midnight, almost without fail i experience a snack attack right before i go to sleep. (that's where the weight gain comes in...)
Etymology: sneak/snack attack..... i think it's pretty self-explanatory.
Snackomania
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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Somnabulunching
Created by: metrohumanx
Pronunciation: SOMME-NAB-YOU-LUNCH-ING
Sentence: "Doc, you gotta help me!" Joe said to his psychiatrist. "I wake up and the bed is full of crumbs.I'm putting on weight and i don't remember emptying the refrigerator and cupboard." Doctor Moriarty pressed his fingertips together and, peering over the top of his glasses with a wizened gaze said: "Joe, i've seen this condition before. It's called SOMNABULUNCHING and it strikes far too many people...."
Etymology: SOMNABUlism-sleepwalking+LUNCHING-self explanatory
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COMMENTS:
I'm back,baby! - metrohumanx, 2008-07-13: 21:33:00
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Sleepapnibble
Created by: toadstool57
Pronunciation: slEEp-ap-nib-ble
Sentence: Jill suffers from sleepapnibble, a sleep eating disorder that has her feasting at all hours of the night.
Etymology: sleep apnea/nibble
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COMMENTS:
Like the connection, the idea that the hunger keeps the sufferer awake. Good stuff! - Bulletchewer, 2007-03-26: 08:01:00
If Jill stops breathing during a sleepapnibble episode it could lead to sleepapnibbledribble - Jabberwocky, 2007-03-26: 15:52:00
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Somnophagia
Created by: vetmommy2
Pronunciation: sohmm-noe-fay-gee-ah
Sentence: His somnophagia was so severe, he ate through all the cereal in the pantry right before bed each night.
Etymology: Somno- GK sleep (like somnambulism-sleepwalking) Phagia- GK- eat
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COMMENTS:
SOMNOPHAGIA is great! I didn't see your word on "today's words", but on the weekly. Great work again, vetmommy2 - metrohumanx, 2008-07-13: 21:46:00
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Snappetite
Created by: Discoveria
Pronunciation: Snapp-pee-tite
Sentence: John's snappetite used to keep him awake at night. Now he has a vending machine installed in his bedroom, to his wife's chagrin.
Etymology: Appetite, and make it snappy!
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COMMENTS:
because he's always hitting her up for change... - Alchemist, 2007-03-26: 12:45:00
clever, clever. - azazn, 2007-03-26: 17:08:00
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Nibblezz
Created by: splendiction
Pronunciation: nib L ZZ
Sentence: “Whaaat ‘re ya doinzzzzzzzz?” she quietly hissed into sleep. His thick hand slid out from under her pillow with the remnants of last night’s nibblezzes; he’d been looking forward to the prebed nosh all night. “Tmuck, tmack...”, he nibbledzz straight into zzzz.
Etymology: From: nibble and zz (sleep).
Hypnoshsis
Created by: mplsbohemian
Pronunciation: hihp-NOSH-sihs
Sentence: Alex kept a large bag of cashews on the bedstand to sate fits of hypnoshsis.
Etymology: hypno- ("sleep") + nosh ("quick snack") + hypnosis (sublimated state in which one can be persuaded to act uncontrollably)
Beddybite
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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