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

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

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

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

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

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

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