Verboticism: Omnidread
DEFINITION: n. The weird feelings that rise up when you notice that you are being followed by a police officer, or a cop car, or the Special Forces Anti-Terrorist Unit. v. To feel nervous, self-conscious and guilty whenever you see a police officer.
Omnidread
Created by: metrohumanx
Pronunciation: OM-knee-dred
Sentence: Generica quickly took a mental inventory of her possible transgressions when she saw the herd of uniformed coppers converge on her zone of control. Sure, she helped Waldo burn his draft card and disappear into the seedy underground, but that was long ago. They probably weren't looking for her, but the OMNIDREAD rose up in her craw like too many shots of sweet brandy. Perhaps she was just being paranoid, but then she remembered that Timmy The Beard was wasting away in a Guantanamo torture cell for the crime of...."SUSPECTED NOVELTIES"
Etymology: OMNI+DREAD=OMNIDREAD.....OMNI: encompassing everthing you may have done, even in your youth.....DREAD:to be apprehensive or fearful,to fear greatly,to feel extreme reluctance to meet or face the authorities;Middle English dreden, from Old English drǣdan...
Points: 1019
Comments: Omnidread
metrohumanx - 2009-01-12: 02:05:00
Bush and Cheney are going to slip away unpunished like thieves in the night.
metrohumanx - 2009-01-12: 02:21:00
Actually, it was Roger Bacon who was imprisoned for "suspected novelties" back in the 13th century, i believe- but history has a nasty way of repeating itself.
Nosila - 2009-01-12: 19:13:00
Your suspected novelties are good, metro...interesting phrase!
metrohumanx - 2009-01-13: 07:59:00
Thanks, N ! I wish I could say it was my own invention (suspected novelties).