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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.
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Extraterrorestrial
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: ekstrətərestrēəl
Sentence: Barbara is convinced that the sky is full of extraterrorestrial objects. How does she explain that you can't see these scary orbs? Cloaking technology! Yes, she has a science affliction.
Etymology: extraterrestrial (of or from outside the earth or its atmosphere}+ terror (extreme fear}
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COMMENTS:
Doe Barbara have a Jack Rusell terrorerier? - metrohumanx, 2009-03-05: 12:43:00
Very good! - Mustang, 2009-03-05: 17:32:00
She is a interrorior designer and the Jack Russell just wouldn't match. - artr, 2009-03-07: 17:49:00
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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
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
Ufobia
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: ewe efff owe beeee ah
Sentence: Her mother could never understand how her ufobia, prevelant since that summer night in the cornfield at the age of four, never seemed to stop her dating the most extraterrestrial looking dorks and wierdos. Sometimes Mindy worried her deeply.
Etymology: UFO phobia
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COMMENTS:
Great! - kateinkorea, 2009-03-05: 09:26:00
on a roll - Jabberwocky, 2009-03-05: 12:34:00
Cleverly arcane reference! - metrohumanx, 2009-03-05: 12:40:00
Out of this world! - silveryaspen, 2009-03-05: 15:15:00
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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
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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Alienspsychosis
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: ale + ee + en + si + ko + sis
Sentence: Drew was diagnosed with a severe case of alienspsychosis after he came home complaining about the space creatures who landed in front of his car and made him board their ship. Ever since then, he is terrified to be outside with the night sky and a million stars twinkling above because in that endless surface against which all aerial objects are seen from the earth he sees large silent UFOs cruising overhead...
Etymology: Aliens and Psychosis >> aliens (extraterrestrial being: a form of life assumed to exist outside the Earth or its atmosphere) psychosis (any severe mental disorder in which contact with reality is lost or highly distorted )
Uiffyo
Created by: kateinkorea
Pronunciation: U iff ee OH
Sentence: She was paranoid of the paranormal and believed she had a special gift, a seventh sense she called her uiffyo: that iffy sense that she was not alone and she was being watched, maybe even stalked by UFOs. She felt that sense of possibility every day. Every mosquito bite was a possible entry mark from an abductor, every star or airplane above could have been a UFO. But her friends were getting tired of her obsessive and weird behaviour. They all agreed that her uiffyo sense was getting uiffyold.
Etymology: UFO: iffy: uncertain; at issue, in doubt
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COMMENTS:
Maybe she could sing in the dark? "O, Yipee Ki Yay, U iffy I O" - readerwriter, 2009-03-05: 11:37:00
Hahahaha! Thanks for the laughs! - metrohumanx, 2009-03-05: 12:48:00
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Pianic
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: pee ann ik
Sentence: Digger's screams of pianic inevitably ended in a flat minor
Etymology: panic piano
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...)
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by metrohumanx. Thank you metrohumanx. ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by metrohumanx. Thank you metrohumanx. ~ James