mimbijones's definitions

second bestness

Second bestness is when you know you are not the first choice if somebody asks you to be someone (wife, husband, girlfriend, boyfriend) or to do something (i.e. become the boss). You know that someone else was first choice and altough you accept the offer, it rankles and stays wth you forever, turning you into a bitter, overbearing person.

"I think Mum's feeling of second bestness is why she's always so horrible to me - knows Dad wanted to or should have married someone else."

by mimbijones April 7, 2023

Olfactorins

Those lovely, unknown, rain-smelling molecules released from the ground into the night air after the first rains, ready to hit the olfactory receptors of your own still-a-bit-asleep-nose as you wake up to a new dawn.

"She is aware the air on the plateau is filled with the scent of olfactorins after the first rains as she continues to pound her way onwards: her eyes focussed now on her distant goal, the two, upside-down baobabs at the edge of the escarpment."

by mimbijones April 3, 2023

germ-polite

Being germ-polite is when you do not sneeze or cough all over someone next to you when you are full of flu or cold germs. Nor do you sneeze or cough into your hand and then shake someone else's hand. Neither is your house germ-polite if you allow your cat to walk over the kitchen surfaces or the dining room table without then wiping them clean. Nor are you germ-polite if you stroke your cat or dog or other pet and then, without first washing your hands, you touch food that other people are going to eat.

Crikey - I hate going to eat at that person's house - it's not germ-polite. They let that horrible, dribbly cat of theirs walk all over their kitchen work surfaces. And no I am not a paranoid-android I just don't like people sharing their germs with me!

by mimbijones December 5, 2015

Unepic

A feeling of being generally unwell, but not due to drugs, alcohol, overeating, period pains, influenza, or any other known disease. You also look terrible, but you're not unwell enough for your mum to write a sick note for school, whereas all you want to do, is lie in bed and feel sorry for yourself.

"Mum, i'm feeling really unepic - please write me a sick note for school. Everybody's going to say how ugly I look. Please , Mum!"

by mimbijones April 10, 2023

hackback

A 'hackback' is when you devastatingly (and at exactly the correct moment) cut through a flow of verbal abuse being directed at you - by using your own brutally accurate observations about your assailant's lack of intelligence, lack of good looks etc. All of those then pale into insignificance, as with rapier-like accuracy, you finally observe that your assailant is also well known in his or her peer group, as being someone who is completely unable to string any sentence together that lacks at least ten repeated swear words.

"Who says words can't kill? I looked at the bully and then chose my exact moment to deliver him a killer hackback. He left me and my friends completely alone after that."

by mimbijones April 4, 2015

fedupness

'Fedupness' is what mothers get filled up with when they constantly have to tell a child off for being disobedient. The child, however, of course thinks it's totally unfair for the mother to be like that.

"Mum's full of fedupness again. Had a real go at me last night for no reason at all."

by mimbijones April 24, 2015

Dawnsmell

That fragrant smell in the dawn air after the first rains have arrived during the night

"Wonder what’s in those lovely-smelling molecules that get breathed out the ground into dawnsmell, after the first rains?"

by mimbijones April 4, 2023