Isolationship

Long- or short-distance relationship between two people kept apart due to shelter-in-place constraints.

Their hot and heavy isolationship was getting weird, the limits of cyber romance coming clear. She lived three blocks away from him, they hadn't been able to see the other for two weeks, each of them trapped in their apartments.

by Monkey's Dad April 09, 2020

The Bridge

An eloquent dream symbol, its crossing an achievement that long felt impossible. "Last night, I dreamed I walked across the bridge", she told him, "all by myself, all the way to the other side of the river."

"I dreamed I walked across the bridge."

by Monkey's Dad January 15, 2023

July 4, 2020 Interdependence Day

A holiday celebrating the truth that we are all in it together, that we all breathe the same air.

She would be at home on July 4, 2020 Interdependence Day, celebrating her connection to the whole world, hoping to one day be part of it, a different kind of freedom.

by Monkey's Dad June 28, 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 05, 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