Monkey's Dad's definitions

YaM

You and Me. Oneness with another soul, all that needs to be said

It was one of those moments where all separation between them seemed to have evaporated. He searched for words, could find none and simply wrote YaM

by Monkey's Dad December 7, 2022

suisociophobia

A society's fear of itself.

'Love Thy Neighbor' seemed an outdated notion, a souvenir of a vanished world, everyone now sheltering indoors, regarding their neighbors as a threat, overtaken by suisociophobia.

by Monkey's Dad March 22, 2020

Like-ectomy

A surgical procedure to excise the insidiously invasive word "like" from an otherwise articulate person's vocabulary.

If she said, "I'm like", "he was like", or, "like, you know, like, kinda, like, pizza but without, like, any, like, crust" he would take her in for a like-ectomy, whether she... uh... liked it, or, like, you know, like, not.

by Monkey's Dad May 29, 2023

proconciliation

Opposite of reconciliation.

From the outset, the creation of compatibility.

Hoping they would connect, he had described each to the other in glowing terms, an act of proconciliation.

by Monkey's Dad April 26, 2020

Reflexicographer

1) Any person whose contributions to Urban Dictionary arise in response to events of the moment.
2) Any person driven to create original words on a daily basis, as a side-effect of being alive in the world.

With 300 entries provided to Urban Dictionary in a period of a few months, the author known as Monkey's Dad might be seen as a modern reflexicographer. Several of his original words have entered the language within days of their creation.

by Monkey's Dad May 18, 2020

rounding the coroner

As you are wheeled through the morgue, passing the doctor who is filling out "Covid-19" as your cause of death.

Having believed that the coronavirus was 'under control", that it would "disappear like magic", that wearing masks was for liberal wimps and that we were "rounding the corner", you were in fact only rounding the coroner. Under 'pre-existing condition' he filled in "believing a president who cared about no one but himself and nothing but his self-aggrandizement".

by Monkey's Dad November 15, 2020

simulalia

The act of two people uttering the identical word or phrase, in the exact tone and cadence, to convey the same thought, at precisely the same moment.

They were so close, their perceptions and observations were linked in such harmonious synchronicity, that many times a day they spoke in perfect unison, often to the amused astonishment of those listening. "We need a word for it" she suggested. And an instant later, they both said "simulalia".

by Monkey's Dad June 5, 2023