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

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

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

dewclaw-hooking

Is like when a lion swipes at its prey and hooks one its front paw dewclaws into whatever it's chasing or clouting at, so the prey animal just cant escape.

"I have to stay calm and try and eye-dominate you because if I don’t, and you’re not too thick or lazy, you’re quite capable of rearing up on your hind legs, and then dewclaw-hooking me off this horizontal tree-branch with a swipe of one front paw."

by mimbijones April 29, 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

bed-killer

A person (usually an adult) who is so terribly overweight and cumbersome that you just know the mattress wont be able to take the strain and that the bed will audibly crack and then sag like a broken matchstick when the overweight person gets onto it - usually by throwing themselves backwards onto the bed.

Wow! Look at the gross size of that man - bet he's a bed-killer.

by mimbijones July 8, 2015

deepshite

Deepshite, is when you're in really bad, possibly terminal trouble in the wild bush in Africa, and you've become a target for predators, like lions, hyenas, crocodiles.

"Mum, I’m going to continue talking to this sodding lion. Know it sometimes helps talking to them quietly if you’re in deepshite, like I am here now in the dawn. Love you, Mum. Know you don’t really love me. . ."

by mimbijones April 29, 2023