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DEFINITION: n. The stars, lights and birds that circle your head when you hit it REALLY hard. v. To watch the stars that circle your head after impact.
Verboticisms
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Starhead
Created by: Gadgetmo
Pronunciation:
Sentence: He's hit his head so hard that he sees stars.
Etymology:
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COMMENTS:
Welcome. You get points for filling in all three. See scoring under News/Help. - silveryaspen, 2009-02-19: 12:34:00
That's EXACTLY what happened to me. Good word, G-mo! I hope to see more. - metrohumanx, 2009-02-23: 00:48:00
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Starryfright
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: star/ry/fright
Sentence: When he fell and banged his head he had a starryfright, seeing blips of light in front of his eyes and a swirling dizzying sensation in his brain.
Etymology: STARRYFRIGHT - from 'Starry Night'
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COMMENTS:
Starry, starry night. Paint your black eye blue and grey, Look out on a winter's day, And watch out for the tree trunk in the snow Shadows on the hills, Sketch the trees and the daffodils, Catch the breeze and the winter chills, In colors on the snowy linen land. - Jabberwocky, 2009-02-19: 10:37:00
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Dizzualize
Created by: hainous
Pronunciation:
Sentence: As blows rained down upon him, he began to dizzualize stars, planets, and finally a whole galaxy.
Etymology: noun form: dissualization
Howstongami
Created by: scrabbelicious
Pronunciation: haʊ:strɒŋ:am:eeee
Sentence: After 10 years in grad school and countless blows to the head, Gerard finally got his degree in HowstrongamI from the Dept of "High to Middling Energy Howstro-Physics". Now all he needed was a bang on the ear and some beans to count.
Etymology: Pun on Astronomy : The "science" of how the sky was cooked up - a highly technical form of bean counting and stamp collecting.
Starspangledbanger
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: star-spangld-BANG-ehr
Sentence: When the stars were whirling around his head and he heard the 'music' playing after rapping his head very hard on a low overhang Arnold said aloud to no one in particular, "Whoa...that was really a starspangledbanger."
Etymology: Substituted 'banger' for 'banner' of Star Spangled Banner.
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COMMENTS:
love it - Jabberwocky, 2009-02-19: 10:53:00
outstanding! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-19: 12:36:00
Bang On! - Nosila, 2009-02-19: 20:57:00
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Hallucigyrate
Created by: kateinkorea
Pronunciation: ha LOO si GIE rate
Sentence: After getting hit on the head several times by the burglar, I had halucigyrates going around and around and around me circling. There is a little bird hallucigyrate, a bell hallucigyrate, and something that looks like the burglar standing in front of me again.
Etymology: HALUCINATE: see things that aren't there GYRATE: circle around
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COMMENTS:
senternce so good I cringed. admire the originality of your verbotomy. - silveryaspen, 2009-02-19: 12:32:00
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Bonkmos
Created by: yellowbird
Pronunciation: bawnk-mose
Sentence: Just as Newton was inspired to study gravity by being bombarded with apples, and Einstein encouraged to investigate the relativity of time by being forced to fill out dreary piles of paperwork in an office, so too was the the young Carl Sagan influenced by an outside event. After banging his head on a low shelf, he saw a personal 'bonkmos' of amazing brightness and detail, which led him to a career in science and experimentation with certain herbal supplements, all in an effort to recreate the 'little twittery cosmos' he saw on that long ago day.
Etymology: bonk + cosmos
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COMMENTS:
Brilliant and lyrical! - metrohumanx, 2009-02-23: 00:37:00
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Starspangledbanger
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: star-spangld-BANG-ehr
Sentence: When the stars were whirling around his head and he heard the 'music' playing after rapping his head very hard on a low overhang Verne said aloud to no one in particular, "Whoa...that was really a starspangledbanger."
Etymology: Substituted 'banger' for 'banner' of Star Spangled Banner.
Bigbangbirds
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: beeg + baang + berdz
Sentence: Martin Purple kept finding ways to inflict blunt trauma to his head....He referred to it as bigbangbirds because afterwards, he would see Starlings, Robins, Cardinals and best of all, little colorful Hummingbirds joyfully dancing around his head.
Etymology: A Play on Big Bang Theory + Big + Bang + Birds >>>Big (above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent)Bang (strike violently,the swift release of a store of affective force) Birds (warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings) Big Bang Theory (The theory that the universe was once clustered and at the 'beginning' it exploded out, as shown by the fact that objects are still moving)...In this case, those objects happen to be birds!!
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COMMENTS:
got a big bang out of this creation! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-19: 12:27:00
BEAUTIFUL construction, M. - metrohumanx, 2009-02-23: 00:41:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by metrohumanx. Thank you metrohumanx. ~ James
I must have been in a sort of time-warp chronoanomaly when this one came down the pike, because i missed it completely. Very rich trove of Verbotomisms, though! Carry on!
Today's definition was suggested by metrohumanx. Thank you metrohumanx. ~ James
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