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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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Pianic
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: pee ann ik
Sentence: Digger's screams of pianic inevitably ended in a flat minor
Etymology: panic piano
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 )
Spaceflip
Created by: silveryaspen
Pronunciation: spays flip
Sentence: Star crazed Sunny Boy, star gazed, while drinking a martiani (oops! martini) or two ... well actually quite a few. He searched the Milky Way and found Mars and a 1000 Grand stars. Then he saw Gal Axy and Unoch Verse in their space ship! Sunny quaked and did a spaceflip!
Etymology: SPACE, FLIP. Space flip is a play on space ship. Space - as in outer space referring to everything beyond earth's atmosphere. Flip - as in 'flip out' meaning to suddenly lose your cool and sanity from fear.
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COMMENTS:
Gal and Unoch were Purple People Eaters ... song of the day! - silveryaspen, 2009-03-05: 01:53:00
great etymology - Jabberwocky, 2009-03-05: 12:34:00
Nice word! - metrohumanx, 2009-03-05: 12:44:00
Excellent story....been there, done that. - Mustang, 2009-03-05: 17:33:00
Sunny forgot to use his Nebula-nizer! Maybe all he took up in school was space...good word! - Nosila, 2009-03-05: 20:25:00
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Eh
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: ? - well it is unnameable
Sentence: Timidia let out a series of grunts and groans, but could not spit out even a single word. She just looked up at the sky, as though there was something hovering there, exhibiting all the signs eh.
Etymology: An expression used when one is speechless, possibly due to being frightened out of one's wits
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COMMENTS:
are you suggesting there is a link between canada and ufos? :) - galwaywegian, 2009-03-05: 08:42:00
is there a link between Irish people and ouchpotatoes? - Jabberwocky, 2009-03-05: 12:37:00
Quite jolly! - metrohumanx, 2009-03-05: 12:39:00
Eh! Oh! Eh! Oh! It's a great exclamation ... no matter where you go ... even if it is by UFO! - silveryaspen, 2009-03-05: 14:56:00
I like the sound of a good Eh! - silveryaspen, 2009-03-05: 15:20:00
You get an "EH-PLUS" for this one! - metrohumanx, 2009-03-06: 13:40:00
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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
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
Paranormia
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: par-uh-NOR-mya
Sentence: Felicity was again experiencing a severe bout of paranormia, fearing an assault by imaginary objects from above that only she could see and sense.
Etymology: Blend of 'paranormal' (Beyond the range of normal experience or scientific explanation) and 'paranoia' (A psychotic disorder characterized by delusions of persecution)
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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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