Verboticism: Sheetpleated
DEFINITION: n., The deep red lines and/or furrows, which appear on a person's face after they have slept on wrinkled or creased bed sheets. v., To wake up and discover that your face matches your wrinkled bed sheets.
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Rinkbaef
Created by: coolkids58
Pronunciation:
Sentence: you have big rinkbaefs
Etymology:
Lininjury
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: lin-IN-jery
Sentence: In spite of her concerted efforts to avoid the condition, Sheila continued to wake up every morning with a moderately severe lininjury from having slept with her face buried in the wrinkled sheets.
Etymology: Blend of 'linen' and 'injury'.
Sheetfaced
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: sheet-fayst
Sentence: after a heavy night of celebrating it was no surprise when i woke up sheetfaced
Etymology: sheet, face, shitfaced
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COMMENTS:
HA! Love it! - purpleartichokes, 2007-11-26: 04:43:00
But of course!! Good word. - Mustang, 2007-11-26: 06:34:00
excellent word - Jabberwocky, 2007-11-26: 13:19:00
Bring to mind an old expression - to go to bed, " To go down sheet alley into Bedfordshire." Fine word! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-11-26: 20:47:00
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Laintracks
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: lay nnn traks
Sentence: His lain tracks were what you'd expect from 60 year old sleepers.
Etymology: lain, traintracks
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COMMENTS:
like it - Jabberwocky, 2008-10-22: 11:50:00
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Pillowglyph
Created by: Buzzardbilly
Pronunciation: pillowglyph (pil-ou-glif)
Sentence: When he awakened one side of his face was covered in a pillowglyph that resembled Nazca lines. -OR- She had obviously been sleeping quite heavy as her arms, face, and what part I could see of her legs quite a pillowglyphic display.
Etymology: pillow (a cushion generally used for sleeping) + glyph (shortened from dermatoglyph because "glyph" itself is easily understood as "a symbolic figure carved or incised in relief"; whereas, "dermatoglyph" refers to lines forming on the skin)
Visaginen
Created by: LotusB
Pronunciation: Vis-AHGE-in-en
Sentence: When he awakened, Carl noticed his face and neck were hurting. Thinking he had been bitten by a bug, he ran to the bathroom mirror only to find he wasn't attacked by bed bugs, but rather visaginen! His sheets attacked him in the night!
Etymology: Visage (Face) + Linen (Sheets, Linens, etc) = Visaginen
Rumpledsheetskin
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: rum peld sheet skin
Sentence: If Betty did not iron Barney's bedsheets each night and slip him a sleeping potion to allow him a calm night's sleep, he's wake up looking like a rumpledsheetskin.
Etymology: Rumplestiltskin (Grimm Bros fairy tale character, an imp who makes a deal to have a young girl spin straw into gold...he did not live happily ever after) & Rumpled (wrinkled) Sheet (bedsheet) & Skin Wordplay.
Linenitis
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: lin-uhn-EYE-tis
Sentence: In spite of her concerted efforts to avoid the condition, Sheena continued to wake up every morning with a severe case of linenitis from having slept with her face buried in the wrinkled sheets.
Etymology: Linen with the suffix '-itis' (a suffix used in pathological terms)
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COMMENTS:
Good one. - Mustang, 2008-10-23: 01:18:00
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Wrinkidermis
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: ring/ki/dur/mis
Sentence: It takes at least four, or five hours after I wake up to overcome wrinkidermis suffered on creased pillow.
Etymology: wrinkle + epidermis
