mimbijones's definitions

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

Bunker-bombing

What big ploppy raidrops do as they break througth the crust of a drought- hibernized soil

"It's pissing outside, first storm of the rainy season and millions of big, ploppy raindrops are bunker-bombing themselves into the drought-hibernized ground, busting up its crust to release the smell of petrichor."

by mimbijones April 4, 2023

Drought-hibernized

When a soil has been deprived of water for a mega-amount of time, it goes into quiescence and becomes what is known as drought-hibernized

"The first rain has arrived and is bunker-bombing itself into the drought-hibernized ground."

by mimbijones April 4, 2023

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

enuff

The way "enough" should be written. It's stronger and not as benign-sounding as "enough"

"Anyway, enuff for now, cos I have to be up before dawn. So, need sleep before I escape down to the valley to hopefully get some good photos for my school photography project.

by mimbijones April 4, 2023

Overclocking

Is when your thinking becomes so fast and so out of control that your brain then tries to compensate by triggering a panic-attack, which means your biggest fear now is you're going to pass out in front of your friends, who all think you're always so wonderfully calm and normal, but actually have no idea that on the inside you're really a total bundle of concealed jitters, nervousness, and weird thinking.

"Oh, God, I can feel myself overclocking inside my head at what you're saying, hope I don't have a panic attack and pass out in front of you!"

by mimbijones April 5, 2023

now-angel

Another word for a friendly ghost - the departed soul of someone you lived with and loved very dearly

"I so, so wish I had a hotline to my now-angel, so as to ask her where the hell she put that thing before she died two years ago. So frustrating, because it used to live in one place only, but it's not there now!"

by mimbijones April 7, 2023