{"id":1437,"date":"2012-03-27T12:01:01","date_gmt":"2012-03-27T16:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1437"},"modified":"2012-03-27T12:01:01","modified_gmt":"2012-03-27T16:01:01","slug":"xtrimaginaphobia-whats-the-big-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1437","title":{"rendered":"Xtrimaginaphobia: What&#8217;s the big deal?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DEFINITION:<\/strong> <em>n.<\/em> The unnameable fear which overcomes one when a large silent UFO cruises arrogantly overhead. <em>v.<\/em> To be frightened by the huge flying objects which exist (for the most part) in your imagination. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/jimage400\/ufo.gif\" alt=\"What's the big deal?\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>VERBOTICISMS:<\/strong> <em>(Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Xtrimaginaphobia<\/strong>:  \/<em>X-chra-ma-jin-uh-foh-bee-uh<\/em>\/ 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). <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Xtra-as in extra-terrestrial<br \/>\nmagina-imagine<br \/>\nphobia-fear <em>Created by:<\/em> kalex.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ufobia<\/strong>:  \/<em>yoo-foh-bee-uh<\/em>\/ Ginny has a bad case of UFObia. She is afraid of anything she can&#8217;t immediately identify that is airborne. Just last week she had a screaming hissy fit when a plastic grocery bag blew her way unexpectedly.  <em>Etymology:<\/em>  UFO (unidentified flying object) + phobia (fear) <em>Created by:<\/em> artr2.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Highsteria<\/strong>:  \/<em>hye steer eee aa<\/em>\/ her highsteria was probably due to  something lower down, such as the grass on which she had been picnicking <em>Etymology:<\/em>  hysteria high <em>Created by:<\/em> galwaywegian.<\/p>\n<p>To see more verboticisms for this definition go to:<br \/> <br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=ufo\">https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=ufo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Be Creative, <\/p>\n<p>James<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\">www.verbotomy.com<\/a><br \/>\nthe create-a-word game<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers) Xtrimaginaphobia: \/X-chra-ma-jin-uh-foh-bee-uh\/ Afflicted with xtrimaginaphobia as she was, Evelyn could not leave the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1437\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Xtrimaginaphobia: What&#8217;s the big deal?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[90,83,82,93,84,89,27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}