mimbijones's definitions

ultra sleepy

Being ultra sleepy is when you are utterly knackered because you woke up at 4 a.m.for some reason and just couldn't get back to sleep, so the day becomes a sort of blur, with you ending up being ultra sleepy and also a bit fearful that you still won't be able to get to sleep easily when it's time for bed.

"My friend Sarah, here at school, is having an ultra sleepy day - just couldn't get her overclocking brain to switch off when she found herself wide awoke for some reason at 4 a.m. So she's more than a bit knackered now, poor girl."

by mimbijones May 4, 2023

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

White-coat

"White-coats" are all the specialist doctors you hate going to see because you just know instinctively there is nothing wrong with you - but that the white coats are going to insist on taking gallons of blood off you, and prod you and stick you in noisy machines that give you as headache.

"And after that, it then will be mum carting me off to yet another white-coat, who will prod me around while I’m semi-naked, take litres of blood off me, mutter a lot, and will then prescribe pills to take each day, to calm me down!"

by mimbijones September 14, 2016

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

quantum dissipation mode

When something is completely quantum un-entangled from the world around it.

"My physics professor speculates that ghosts exist in quantum dissipation mode most of the time. However, he says that if their quarklets manage to get entangled again, they then become visible to us. It must be really cool to be a Prof and think crazy thoughts, but get paid for it."

by mimbijones May 3, 2015

perhapponism

A perhapponism is a fear of something that may happen in the future, but which is magnified out of all proportion so that it dominates all your thinking.

I keep on having a perhapponism that if I do go on a walking safari in Africa it will be my last. I know it's irrational to think this because the safari guides have all got rifles and there aren't any really dangerous animals where we would be going anyway.

by mimbijones May 2, 2018

scrumpshalicious

the word to describe the best tasting meal you have ever had

Mum has just cooked the most scrumpshalicious meal I've ever had!

by mimbijones March 30, 2015