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DEFINITION: v. To worry about the proliferation of nuclear weapons and the ultimate demise of our planet. n. Anxiety caused by the fear of nuclear bumblers.
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Babybugaboom
Created by: readerwriter
Pronunciation: bay-bee-bug-a-boom
Sentence: Here it comes again, Zoe sighed at the core of her heart, the nucleus of her being. Things really seemed to be coming full circle. She was referring to all the babybugabooming in the news lately: North Korea, Iran. Now her boss was entertaining ideas for marketing it and here was this crazy guy in front of her. They...whoever they were... had to keep fear in the mix and at bay, she supposed. It was enough to make you inert. However, she thought, as her creative juices started flowing, little children the world over might enjoy a BabyBugaBoomerang!
Etymology: From slang for worry, BUGABOO + BABY BOOMER referring to those born between 1946 and 1964 and grew up during the Cold War. Emphasis on BOOM!
Aaaaarghmageddon
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: aaaaaaaaaaargh maaa geddd ohn
Sentence: his alst thoughts as he witnessed aaarghmageddon was " Knew there was something dodgy about Onobama"
Etymology: armageddon aaaaaaargh
Duckntremble
Created by: metrohumanx
Pronunciation: duck-n-trem-bull (duckntrembleosis)
Sentence: We all sat there in the War Room, staring aghast at the Big Board. There were still enough ICBMs to cause millions of BMs and turn the surface of our planet into fused glass. The realization that a nuclear half-life was no life at all began to sink in like heavy water into an aquifer. Some of us began to DUCKNTREMBLE at the thought of descending into a cozy mineshaft and trying to treat our radiation burns with napalmolive while recalling our school daze, cringing in the basement next to Sister MaryElephant and Shaky Nancy.
Etymology: DUCK+TREMBLE=DUCKNTREMBLE.....DUCK:to lower (as the head) quickly,avoid , evade, to move quickly,to lower the head or body suddenly,dodge,to plunge under the surface; Middle English douken; akin to Old High German tūhhan to dive, Old English dūce duck.....N: a short connective syllable popularized in the 20th century (shake n bake,turf n surf, feather n leather, duck n cover etc)......TREMBLE: to shake involuntarily (as with fear), shiver,to move,or come to pass as if shaken or tremulous, to be affected with great fear or anxiety; Middle English, from Anglo-French trembler, from Medieval Latin tremulare, from Latin tremulus tremulous, from tremere to tremble; akin to Greek tremein to tremble.
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COMMENTS:
US Navy: 1152 warheads.
Russian Navy: 639 warheads.
French Navy: 16 warheads.
UK Royal Navy: 64 warheads.
Chinese Navy: 12 warheads.
- metrohumanx, 2009-02-04: 01:06:00
So many great verbotomies in a great sentence! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-04: 02:25:00
your sentences are wonderfully descriptive - Jabberwocky, 2009-02-04: 12:43:00
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Nufearical
Created by: amberlily
Pronunciation: nu-feer-ik-al
Sentence: "We're gonna get nuked!", said Ed, his eyes wide. "Calm down!", said Jane. "You're completely nufearical."
Etymology: fear of nuclear activity, paired with hysterical behavior
Paranukia
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: parənoōkiə
Sentence: Boomer is one of the few people we know who still maintains a fallout shelter. His paranukia runs deep. He tells his skeptics ”When they blow you up, don’t come running to me”.
Etymology: paranoia (a mental condition characterized by delusions of persecution) + nuke (a nuclear weapon)
Kaboomafears
Created by: abrakadeborah
Pronunciation: ka-boom-uh-feers
Sentence: Gallon Greensplane, was sure that he could ease the kaboomafears of the others...as he explained how safe the new G.S.O.N.C.B.'s are. (*Global Swarming Organic Nuclear Cold Bombs)
Etymology: Kaboom -is an onomatopoeia representing the sound of an explosion. A Fear- A distressing emotion aroused by impending danger, evil, pain, etc., whether the threat is real or imagined; the feeling or condition of being afraid.
Alarmageddon
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: al ahrm ah gedd ohn
Sentence: alarmageddon, when vocalised, is usually met with armagedouttahere
Etymology: armageddon, alarm
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COMMENTS:
astute observation, readily apparent meaning, right on the definition, great originality. Exceptional verbotomy. - silveryaspen, 2009-02-04: 09:32:00
can always count on you to diffuse a scary concept - Jabberwocky, 2009-02-04: 12:41:00
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Bingbangdoom
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: bingbangdoōm
Sentence: Gerry just knows that the world is in deep peril. Some nitwit somewhere with an itchy finger is going to set off a chain of events that will bring the end of the world. It won't be difficult, just a matter of bingbangdoom. Even the tinfoil inside his baseball cap might not be enough to keep him safe.
Etymology: bing (exclamation - indicating a sudden action or event + bang (a sudden loud noise) + doom (death, destruction, or some other terrible fate)
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COMMENTS:
baddabang-baddaboom! - otherguy, 2009-02-04: 06:29:00
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Kaboomominy
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: KA-boom-OM-ee-nee
Sentence: Whenever Bob heard the words nuclear winter, shivers of kaboomominy koreered down his back.
Etymology: KABOOM: onomatopoeia: A loud noise heard with an explosion. "With the drop of the atom bomb, a loud kaboom was heard. " & OMINY (clipping of ominous); threatening or foreshadowing evil or tragic developments; presaging ill fortune; "ill omens"; "ill predictions."
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COMMENTS:
Great descriptive sentence and word... we's all felt shivers of kaboomominy! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-04: 22:26:00
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Bangxiety
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: bang zy itee
Sentence: When you took Professor Atom Baum's physics class, it was hard not to develop bangxiety about the world's fate. According to Atom,the world was always on the verge of nuclear war. Of course, Professor Atom Baum was married to Professor Eva Destruction, so there was always cheery chat around their dinner table. Neither of them ever bought green bananas, just in case they were right.
Etymology: Bang (Explosion;loud noise;the swift release of a store of affective force;(cosmology) the cosmic explosion that is hypothesized to have marked the origin and the demise of the universe) & Anxiety (a vague unpleasant emotion that is experienced in anticipation of some (usually ill-defined) misfortune)
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by silveryaspen. Thank you silveryaspen. ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by silveryaspen. Thank you silveryaspen. ~ James
artipt - 2018-08-19: 18:15:00
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