Monkey's Dad's definitions

Coughkaesque

An unsettling, nightmare story of existence in the coronaviral age, redolent of Franz Kafka.

Empty streets, silent cities, people under legal edict to avoid others, with no sound more ominous than a simple cough, the world swiftly felt Coughkaesque.

by Monkey's Dad April 2, 2020

Msogynist

A polite and politically correct Misogynist.

Never crude or disrespectful to the fair sex, he introduced himself to women as a Msogynist.

by Monkey's Dad August 29, 2021

#MehToo

#MeToo fatigue, the result of elastic boundaries applied in accusations of inappropriate conduct.

She struggled to understand how Andrew Cuomo was being classed alongside R. Kelly and Harvey Weinstein. When old grab-em-by-the-pussy-Trump had been given a pass, for God's sake??!! She wondered whether she and her friends had arrived at their #MehToo moment.

by Monkey's Dad March 2, 2021

ayyysymptomatic

No signs of disease. Possibly infectious. Ready to party!

They were young, ayyysymptomatic, and heading for the beach.

by Monkey's Dad May 5, 2020

criminally negligent humor

Slipped into conversation like a stiletto between the ribs, an unintended yet nearly lethal joke.

She looked innocent, her blue eyes wide, and he never saw it coming, another taste of her criminally negligent humor. Sliding from the bed and falling to the floor, he begged, "Don't make me laugh! Please!" It was too late.

by Monkey's Dad March 26, 2023

Sifty

When fifty is the new sixty. When recently healthy and vital people, so exhausted and worn down from Covid, from politics, from the craziness of masks, vaccines, the Big Lie, feel they have lost not just a year but a decade.

Yesterday she was 49. Today was - big whoop - her birthday, and whatever the balloons spelled out, she was sure she must be turning Sifty.

by Monkey's Dad September 16, 2021

verisimehlitude

The quality in a work of art so enslaved to the reality of its source that it elicits no response.

The sculptor had worked very hard to do this. His sculpture was exactly life-sized, colored and textured to precisely replicate the thing it was imitating, and, standing in the gallery, it looked like a living, breathing security guard. Except that it was not breathing, nor was it living, nor did anyone recognize it as a work of art. Or feel anything about it. Or pay it any mind. An example of craft for craft's sake, it had achieved a state of verisimehlitude.

by Monkey's Dad June 22, 2021