Verboticisms

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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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: gizərd əv näd

Sentence: Dorothy has a strange affliction. Her system confuses sleepiness for hunger. As soon as she starts to feel drowsy her stomach starts the **feed me** signal. More often than not she gives into the GizzardofNod. Dorothy*s puppy Toto is all too happy join in with the munchings.

Etymology: gizzard (a person\'s stomach) + of (indicating an association between two entities)+ nod (have one\'s head fall forward when drowsy or asleep) Play off of the Wizard of Oz

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COMMENTS:

We're off to see the Gizzard...you're not in KansGas anymore...good word! - Nosila, 2009-10-12: 22:18:00

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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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Created by: riflesandkids74

Pronunciation: nahk-yurn

Sentence: Julia's frustration with Geoff were most apparent in the mornings, when she would brush the crumbs out of her hair from his nocyearn of the previous night.

Etymology: nocturnal and yearn

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Created by: chaok

Pronunciation: Vee-taw-tihk

Sentence: Resisting my vitotic sensations was one of the key ways I lost a lot of my weight.

Etymology: This comes from an episode of "Viva la bam", where Vito lays on a bed and eats several chicken wings as a prank on Johnny Knoxville. Thus, when you are eating in bed you are being like vito.

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Created by: josje

Pronunciation: compie food

Sentence: if there is no sex i will take compiefood

Etymology: compensation food

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Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: dream-bun

Sentence: Guthrie always succumbed to dreambunning. It led to the collapse of his marriage due to crumbreconcilable differences in the bed room.

Etymology: cream bun (my favourite tuck shop treat when I was a kid) + dream (something one does at bedtime + something one yearns for)

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: bedkrəmz

Sentence: Mary couldn’t understand why Ralph seemed fixated on eating crackers in bed. She finally figured out that he was leaving a trail of bedcrumbs when he got up during the night. She hadn’t realized how advanced his Alzheimer’s had become.

Etymology: bed (a piece of furniture for sleep or rest) + bread crumbs (a storybook technique for retracing your steps)

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Created by: Bulletchewer

Pronunciation: slunn-grr

Sentence: He satisfied his slunger with cookies, the crumbs of which made the bed bugs bite.

Etymology: From "sleep/slumber" and "hunger".

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COMMENTS:

I like that! - jedijawa, 2007-03-26: 07:19:00

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Created by: Berlioze

Pronunciation: Ch lug

Sentence: Bob suddenly began chlugging all the food in our fridge last night!

Etymology: I thought of this as a combination of "late" and "chug", which became "chlug"

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