{"id":1699,"date":"2013-04-29T12:01:57","date_gmt":"2013-04-29T16:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1699"},"modified":"2013-04-29T12:01:57","modified_gmt":"2013-04-29T16:01:57","slug":"knockturnals-whats-that-dripping-sound","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1699","title":{"rendered":"Knockturnals: What&#8217;s that dripping sound?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DEFINITION:<\/strong> <em>n.<\/em> Strange sounds that keep you awake in the middle of the night. <em>v.<\/em> To lie in bed unable to sleep because you keep hearing weird sounds. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/jimage400\/sounds.gif\" alt=\"What's that dripping sound?\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>VERBOTICISMS:<\/strong> <em>(Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Knockturnals<\/strong>:  \/<em>nok turn als<\/em>\/ When Velma went to bed that night, she awoke later to strange noises. At about three a.m. she could hear the knockturnals very clearly. Although scared, she finally got up and crept towards the sound. That&#8217;s when she discovered that her cat, Tomahawk, had learned how to rap on the back door to get back in, rather than trying to squeeze his massive body through the cat flap. Oh well, she thought it was better than him learning how to use the doorbell&#8230; <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Knock (make light, repeated taps on a surface) &amp; Nocturnal (at night) <em>Created by:<\/em> Nosila.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nocturnemanations<\/strong>:  \/<em>nok-tern-em-eh-NAY-shuns<\/em>\/ 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 <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Blend of nocturnal (during the night) and emanations (. Something that issues from a source; an emission) <em>Created by:<\/em> Mustang.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Insomniyack<\/strong>:  \/<em>in-som-nee-yak<\/em>\/ 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. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  insomniac (a person with an inability to sleep soundly) + yack (to talk, to chatter) <em>Created by:<\/em> artr.<\/p>\n<p>To see more verboticisms for this definition go to:<br \/> <br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=sounds\">https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=sounds<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Be Creative, <\/p>\n<p>James<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\">www.verbotomy.com<\/a><br \/>\nthe create-a-word game<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers) Knockturnals: \/nok turn als\/ When Velma went to bed that night, she awoke later to strange noises. At about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1699\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Knockturnals: What&#8217;s that dripping sound?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[90,83,82,93,84,89,27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}