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DEFINITION: n. The unnameable fear which overcomes one when a large silent UFO cruises arrogantly overhead. v. To be frightened by the huge flying objects which exist (for the most part) in your imagination.
Verboticisms
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Ufofrighting
Created by: splendiction
Pronunciation: u f o fright ing
Sentence: The most recent of Lunar’s ufofrightings came at the time she was searching through a particularly tangled shrub in her garden for what, we can only imagine. Lunar knew there was something lurking in that gaudy intertwine of Hydrangea/Lilac: she could sense a presence waiting to lunge! She pressed her lips together. Her piercing gaze into the shrub was easily interrupted by, high in the distant sky, a luminescent puck, a ufofrighting! It immediately removed her from her paranoidormal search into the greenery. Lunar tore quickly into her tiny kitchen, double-locked the door, pressed her lips together and fixed a piercing ghaze up into the sky...
Etymology: from ufo sighting and fright - to fear the appearance of an unidentified flying object
Xtrimaginaphobia
Created by: kalex
Pronunciation: X-chra-ma-jin-uh-foh-bee-uh
Sentence: Afflicted with xtrimaginaphobia as she was, Evelyn could not leave the comfort of her tiny home. If she did, she would be subject to the assault of any or every UFO within 400 light years (or so she thought).
Etymology: Xtra-as in extra-terrestrial magina-imagine phobia-fear
Doomzdaze
Created by: readerwriter
Pronunciation: doomz-dayz
Sentence: It was 1971 and Inertia was too frightened to go out of doors. Doomzdaze, as well as the haze of smoke from a certain dried flower, hung over her like a cloud--a radioactive UFO-shaped cloud. Lately, even the indoors was terrifying. The Paul Klee prints on the walls were alive and talking to her. "Go to the desert," they said. "Wait for the flying saucers to pick you up." Oh, to have the strength to pack the dried apricots and brown rice in the van! Maybe the Ouija board was right: California is falling into the ocean!
Etymology: From DOOMSDAY, a Day of Judgement + DAZE, to stun, stupefy
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COMMENTS:
nice! - galwaywegian, 2009-03-05: 08:41:00
Thanx...some dayz are certainly better than otherz! - readerwriter, 2009-03-05: 11:28:00
terrific word - Jabberwocky, 2009-03-05: 12:37:00
Hilarious! Makes me miss the festival in Mosport! - metrohumanx, 2009-03-05: 12:45:00
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Ufohmygod
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: ewe eff oh miee gawd
Sentence: her constant bouts of ufohmygod led to alienation
Etymology: UFO oh my God
Saucerphobia
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: sos er fobe eeya
Sentence: When Susan was outside, she often experienced saucerphobia, that fear of alien invasion that could be disguised as a dark cloud. She also experienced plateophobia when watching baseball and cupophobia when trying on new bras...
Etymology: Saucer (UFO;Flying Saucer) & Phobia (fear of...)
Scaireborne
Created by: rombus
Pronunciation: skare + born
Sentence: Todd felt scaireborne by all that he imagined to be airborne.
Etymology: scare and airborne -- scare means to cause fear and airborne -- caused to be moved through the air.
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COMMENTS:
hehe - galwaywegian, 2009-03-05: 08:42:00
funny - Jabberwocky, 2009-03-05: 12:33:00
Off we grow...into the wild blue yonder.... - metrohumanx, 2009-03-05: 12:37:00
very appealing - silveryaspen, 2009-03-05: 15:14:00
Todd, be afraid, be very afraid... - Nosila, 2009-03-05: 20:28:00
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Ufobia
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: yoo-foh-bee-uh
Sentence: Ginny has a bad case of UFObia. She is afraid of anything she can't immediately identify that is airborne. Just last week she had a screaming hissy fit when a plastic grocery bag blew her way unexpectedly.
Etymology: UFO (unidentified flying object) + phobia (fear)
Aerosis
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: air/os/is
Sentence: Jody suffers from the heartbreak of aerosis constantly ducking and flinging herself under sidewalk and park benches to avoid being struck by her perceived areonautic space debris.
Etymology: AEROSIS - noun - from AERO (pertaining to flying objects such as aeroplanes) + NEUROSIS (personality disorder typified by excessive anxiety and a degree of social, or interpersonal maladjustment)
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COMMENTS:
Good word, but I got tongue cramps pronouncing it! - metrohumanx, 2009-03-05: 12:47:00
I can't even say this once slow let alone three times fast ... must need an alien tongue to say this one! Superb tongue twister! - silveryaspen, 2009-03-05: 15:02:00
I think my comment was supposed to appear beneath "Pedesastrian".....AEROSIS is clever and eminently pronounceable. - metrohumanx, 2009-03-05: 17:23:00
Nice switcheroo stevenson! - silveryaspen, 2009-03-05: 17:40:00
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Invisablitations
Created by: abrakadeborah
Pronunciation: In-vis-a-bli-tay-shuns
Sentence: Carla was quite the strange one. She often times would speak of "invisablitations" of seeing her cat fly at night and apparitions of things flying around during the day. Nobody ever believed her as she was constantly dodging invisible objects and swatting into thin air at objects nobody else could see. She would scream out loud for no apparent reason...No wonder she thought her cat could fly as it would often leap across the room! Poor Tomcat was constantly startled by Carla's "invisablitationous" outbursts that he was leaping from place to place to get away from her. Carla's best friend Harry often stood in calmness as he watched her scream and swat at invisible objects.
Etymology: Invisible & abilities in action; to flail arms,snort,scream and act out at unknown objects flying around.
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by metrohumanx. Thank you metrohumanx. ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by metrohumanx. Thank you metrohumanx. ~ James