Definitions by Monkey's Dad
Disturbin' Dictionary
Pandemic, contagion, death rate, infections, coronation, coronaviral, isolution... they kept appearing in the Disturbin' Dictionary when he was just looking for a laugh.
Disturbin' Dictionary by Monkey's Dad March 21, 2020
hand insanitizer
The suggestion that you need to wash your hands, and wash them again, specifically with a product that no longer exists, until you become insane with anxiety.
She had scrubbed and scoured her fingers and palms until they were raw, her bottles had all been emptied, and she was on the edge of crazy, needing to find more hand insanitizer.
hand insanitizer by Monkey's Dad March 21, 2020
Hoppandemic
The current social, emotional and psychological isolation, brought about by the pandemic, prefigured by American painter Edward Hopper, many decades before the fact.
How had Hopper foreseen it? Isolated souls, trapped in vacant rooms, staring out windows at the empty American landscape, in the grip of a virtual Hoppandemic.
Hoppandemic by Monkey's Dad March 20, 2020
Free Range Human
A person able to move their limbs freely, to walk about their beloved cities, towns, beaches and parks. A person looking forward to same, if and when the coronavirus pandemic ends.
After days of forced isolation in his minuscule New York apartment, able to touch all four walls at once, he yearned to open the door, to hit the street, to walk, to run, to be a free range human.
Free Range Human by Monkey's Dad March 20, 2020
hookup
A quaint social custom of the early 21st century in which two strangers agreed to occupy the same room for a period of time. Presently unthinkable.
She could almost remember the last time she had been touched, it was a hookup, when she and the world were innocent and a stranger could be seen as an okay thing, not a possible death sentence.
hookup by Monkey's Dad March 19, 2020
Vernal Equilox
The March 19, 2020 lockdown, falling on the Vernal Equinox - the time when the sun crosses the plane of the earth's equator, making night and day of equal length.
The Vernal Equilox, everyone in lockdown, endless night following endless day, no one outdoors to observe or to celebrate, Netflix flowing seamlessly into Prime Video.
Vernal Equilox by Monkey's Dad March 19, 2020