Verboticism: Starryfright
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.
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Conkfetti
Created by: silveryaspen
Pronunciation: conk fet ee
Sentence: Mother Hubbard woke up to hear the kids in the kitchen. She went running and smacked her head on the open cupboard door. Instead of seeing what was going on, all she could see was conkfetti.
Etymology: CONK, CONFETTI Conk - a blow to the head. Confetti - small pieces of colored paper, often in the shapes of stars, birds, flowers, et cetera, that are thrown over people's heads, usually at celebrations.
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COMMENTS:
Song of the day: Twinkle Twinkle Little Star - silveryaspen, 2009-02-19: 01:02:00
terrific word - Jabberwocky, 2009-02-19: 10:52:00
I must Conkfess I love it! - Nosila, 2009-02-19: 20:59:00
Good one, SA! I must say! - metrohumanx, 2009-02-23: 00:38:00
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Stupornova
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: stoōpərnōvə
Sentence: Ralph’s baseball team drafted him to fill in as catcher. He didn’t completely understand the need to wear a hard helmet along with the mask. He also didn’t understand that you shouldn’t lean forward as a pitch comes in. He now understands, or he will as soon as he comes out of his state of stupornova.
Etymology: supernova (a star that suddenly increases greatly in brightness because of a catastrophic explosion that ejects most of its mass) + stupor (a state of near-unconsciousness or insensibility)
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COMMENTS:
:) - galwaywegian, 2010-09-02: 09:55:00
stupornovel word - Nosila, 2010-09-02: 19:17:00
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Concusstellation
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: kon kus stel lay shun
Sentence: When the craniologists were experimentinmg with head blows, they were surrounded by a concusstellation.
Etymology: Concussion (an injury to the brain caused by a blow) & Constellation (a configuration of stars)
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.
Milkyhaze
Created by: DnBrown
Pronunciation: Milky-Haze
Sentence: Jim was getting sick of his wife telling him what to do, so he finally lost it and gave her a good yelling. Not pleased with the tone Jim was giving her, she reached in the cupboard, grabbed a frying pan and gave Jim a piece of her mind. It took almost a whole day for Jim to loose the Milkyhaze surrounding his vision.
Etymology: a mix of Milky, from the Milky Way (It is a barred spiral galaxy that is part of the Local Group of galaxies. Also where our solar system resides) and Haze (vagueness or obscurity, as of the mind or perception; confused or vague thoughts, feelings, etc.)
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COMMENTS:
Excellent. Cold and concise sentence, too! - metrohumanx, 2009-02-23: 00:42:00
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Stardazing
Created by: Negatrev
Pronunciation: Star-Daze-ing
Sentence: After running head first into the low beam, Albert was left Stardazing.
Etymology: From Stargazing, to watch stars, altered with the state to be dazed.
Conkstellation
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: kongk-stuh-ley-shuhn
Sentence: When the catcher stood up as the batter was taking a swing he found himself in the middle of a conkstellation.
Etymology: conk (to hit or strike on the head) + constellation (any of various groups of stars)
Smackstars
Created by: ctman56
Pronunciation:
Sentence: After a friend hit Bob on the head with a basketball, he saw smackstars for a few minutes.
Etymology: Comes from the words smack and stars.....duh!
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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