Reply #24: Here are some fun ones [View All]

[Rob H.]

From a radio station in Canada's Most Wanted Words contest.
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The lines you get on your face from your sheets and pillows when you're sleeping. You know the ones, they're similar to the lines you get from wearing socks that are too tight, but these ones are on your face and if you still have them by the time you get to the office, everyone knows you slept in.

• Cotslots
• Dream seams
• Slimples
• Crevidents
• Sheetfaced
• Rip van wrinkles
• Rumplesheetskin
• Pillowpinches
• Percalations
• Drool gutters
• Scrunchligs
• Shrinkles

A person who has trouble keeping plants alive. "Trouble" is putting it mildly. What they actually do is kill houseplants, flowers, vegetables, even shrubbery with ease and efficiency.

• Herbicidal maniac
• hortikillturist
• botchanist
• plantagonizer
• necrofloriac
• horticidal maniac
• vegicidal maniac
• grass-assin
• botanicidal
• roto-killer
• vegecutioner
• veggiscarian
• fleurfatale
• fleurderer
• floraputz
• morticulturist
• flortician
• hortician
• planters thwart
• earth-smother