mimbijones's definitions

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

Scent-flehmening

"Lions, when they are scent- flehmening you, are sniffing you extra extra hard, using what's called their 'vomeronasal organ,' or 'Jacobson's organ,' which is situated in the roof of their mouth. Lions pull their upper lips back hard in what's kown as a "Flehmen grimace," exposing their gums and baring their canine teeth as, open-mouthed, they then search the air around trying to detect the direction of the most concentrated scent of you and your own pheromones. Snakes, too (amongst lots of other animals) have a Jacobson's organ - and the evidence of when it's being used is when their tongues flicker in and out their mouths, testing the air around themselves for prey.

That's it, Mr Grumpy, you keep on scent-flehmening me, lips back and open-mouthed, just like your doing now. Take really really deep sniffs of me! It's me, Mimbi Jones. You know my pheromones. So, why don't you just scarper and leave me to get out this tree, so's I can run back home before Mum wakes up and comes into my room!"

by mimbijones April 29, 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

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

quarklet

If you can imagine a much smaller and younger sister or brother with whom you share DNA but not much else in common, they could be thought of as being a 'quarklet.' Similarly, in the world of atoms, you have protons and neutrons and the things they are made of which are called quarks (i.e. the big brothers or sisters of quarklets) and quarklets (the smaller, irritating, buzzing around everywhere baby quarks). So think of a quarklet as being a baby quark. They will be discovered sometime and their definition will have been first posted on the UD.

"If I were a physicist I would want to be the discoverer of quarklets, because they will turn out to be the building blocks of the universe, mark my words!"

by mimbijones April 26, 2015

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