Verb: A state or feeling of great mental distress or disorientation when, after falling asleep on the couch, you move to bed and experience an inability to fall back asleep.
Origin:
Combination of the words couch to bed and misery. (Latin)
I lay awake in bed for hours with the worst case of cobisery after first falling asleep watching series on the couch.
Ahh, commisery. The misery you feel when you spent thousands on commission but got nothing more for your money.
Save yourself from commisery at PurpleBricks.com.au.
Deano thought that PurpleBricks was just online, but he felt commisery when he found out that they only charge a fixed fee.
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)