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DEFINITION: n. The stars, lights and birds that circle your head when you hit it REALLY hard. v. To watch the stars that circle your head after impact.
Verboticisms
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Bonkmos
Created by: yellowbird
Pronunciation: bawnk-mose
Sentence: Just as Newton was inspired to study gravity by being bombarded with apples, and Einstein encouraged to investigate the relativity of time by being forced to fill out dreary piles of paperwork in an office, so too was the the young Carl Sagan influenced by an outside event. After banging his head on a low shelf, he saw a personal 'bonkmos' of amazing brightness and detail, which led him to a career in science and experimentation with certain herbal supplements, all in an effort to recreate the 'little twittery cosmos' he saw on that long ago day.
Etymology: bonk + cosmos
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COMMENTS:
Brilliant and lyrical! - metrohumanx, 2009-02-23: 00:37:00
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Stardazing
Created by: feltcap
Pronunciation: stär'gāz'
Sentence: As he clambered to his feet after taking the blow he wondered briefly it she was worth it, a dizzy feeling overtaking him from head to toe as he began stardazing, his vision blurring and limbs going numb.
Etymology: stargazing- observation of the stars, daze - to stun, as with a heavy blow or shock
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COMMENTS:
Welcome. Puntastic creation! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-20: 00:46:00
CLEVER! Promise him anything, but give him a CLOUT! - metrohumanx, 2009-02-23: 00:43:00
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Conkstellation
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: kongk-stuh-ley-shuhn
Sentence: When the catcher stood up as the batter was taking a swing he found himself in the middle of a conkstellation.
Etymology: conk (to hit or strike on the head) + constellation (any of various groups of stars)
Galachesy
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: gal ake see
Sentence: She was a very strong gal, one punch from her would take him to another galachesy.
Etymology: galaxy, ache (sorry about the gal pun as well!)
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COMMENTS:
there's a gal in your name as well - Jabberwocky, 2009-02-19: 10:40:00
great fun sentence and word! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-19: 12:30:00
Yeah, she was a KNOCKOUT! - metrohumanx, 2009-02-23: 00:50:00
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Conkfetti
Created by: silveryaspen
Pronunciation: conk fet ee
Sentence: Mother Hubbard woke up to hear the kids in the kitchen. She went running and smacked her head on the open cupboard door. Instead of seeing what was going on, all she could see was conkfetti.
Etymology: CONK, CONFETTI Conk - a blow to the head. Confetti - small pieces of colored paper, often in the shapes of stars, birds, flowers, et cetera, that are thrown over people's heads, usually at celebrations.
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COMMENTS:
Song of the day: Twinkle Twinkle Little Star - silveryaspen, 2009-02-19: 01:02:00
terrific word - Jabberwocky, 2009-02-19: 10:52:00
I must Conkfess I love it! - Nosila, 2009-02-19: 20:59:00
Good one, SA! I must say! - metrohumanx, 2009-02-23: 00:38:00
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Batterstargalactica
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: batt ur stahrrr gal ak tik aaaa
Sentence: The appearance of batterstar galactica occurred after cosmic amounts of vodka disappeared down the red hole, causing a big bang, usually involving an open cupboard door
Etymology: battlestar galactica, batter
Bigbangbirds
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: beeg + baang + berdz
Sentence: Martin Purple kept finding ways to inflict blunt trauma to his head....He referred to it as bigbangbirds because afterwards, he would see Starlings, Robins, Cardinals and best of all, little colorful Hummingbirds joyfully dancing around his head.
Etymology: A Play on Big Bang Theory + Big + Bang + Birds >>>Big (above average in size or number or quantity or magnitude or extent)Bang (strike violently,the swift release of a store of affective force) Birds (warm-blooded egg-laying vertebrates characterized by feathers and forelimbs modified as wings) Big Bang Theory (The theory that the universe was once clustered and at the 'beginning' it exploded out, as shown by the fact that objects are still moving)...In this case, those objects happen to be birds!!
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COMMENTS:
got a big bang out of this creation! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-19: 12:27:00
BEAUTIFUL construction, M. - metrohumanx, 2009-02-23: 00:41:00
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Howstongami
Created by: scrabbelicious
Pronunciation: haʊ:strɒŋ:am:eeee
Sentence: After 10 years in grad school and countless blows to the head, Gerard finally got his degree in HowstrongamI from the Dept of "High to Middling Energy Howstro-Physics". Now all he needed was a bang on the ear and some beans to count.
Etymology: Pun on Astronomy : The "science" of how the sky was cooked up - a highly technical form of bean counting and stamp collecting.
Stupornova
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: stoōpərnōvə
Sentence: Ralph’s baseball team drafted him to fill in as catcher. He didn’t completely understand the need to wear a hard helmet along with the mask. He also didn’t understand that you shouldn’t lean forward as a pitch comes in. He now understands, or he will as soon as he comes out of his state of stupornova.
Etymology: supernova (a star that suddenly increases greatly in brightness because of a catastrophic explosion that ejects most of its mass) + stupor (a state of near-unconsciousness or insensibility)
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COMMENTS:
:) - galwaywegian, 2010-09-02: 09:55:00
stupornovel word - Nosila, 2010-09-02: 19:17:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by metrohumanx. Thank you metrohumanx. ~ James
I must have been in a sort of time-warp chronoanomaly when this one came down the pike, because i missed it completely. Very rich trove of Verbotomisms, though! Carry on!
Today's definition was suggested by metrohumanx. Thank you metrohumanx. ~ James
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