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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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Wmdiety
Created by: chaiandallthatjazz
Pronunciation: dub-ul-u-m-dI-e-tee
Sentence: Approaching 2012 there's an air of WMDiety amongst the peoples!
Etymology: WMD (weapons of mass destruction) + anxiety (worry, apprehension) + deity (God, divinity)
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)
Defissioncy
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: de fish on see
Sentence: Pierre was terribly afraid of nuclear war. In fact he was suffering a severe defissioncy. When people joked about nuclear holocaust to him, he always said "Fermi la bouche!"
Etymology: Deficiency (something lacking) & Fission (a nuclear reaction in which a massive nucleus splits into smaller nuclei with the simultaneous release of energy) Enrico Fermi (Italian nuclear physicist (in the United States after 1939) who worked on artificial radioactivity caused by neutron bombardment and who headed the group that in 1942 produced the first controlled nuclear reaction (1901-1954))
Nukefearbungle
Created by: TJayzz
Pronunciation: Newk-fee-er-bun-gel
Sentence: Tony would often lie awake at night stricken with the thought of nukefearbungle. All sorts of questions ran through his mind, what if someone accidentally pushed THE button resulting in the destruction of our planet. What would happen? Would there be any survivors? How long would they be able to survive? He finally decided to start building a nuclear bunker in his garden and stock it with enough food and supplies to last for at least three years.
Etymology: Nuke(short for nuclear) + Fear)a state of high anxiety) + Bungle(a istake, or be incompetent) = Nukefearbungle) See Nuclear bunker
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COMMENTS:
great combo - Jabberwocky, 2009-02-04: 12:42:00
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Nuclefear
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: nookleefeer
Sentence: Every news report about Iran's efforts to develop an atomic bomb adds to Walter's nuclefear.
Etymology: nuclear (pertaining to or involving atomic weapons) + fear (a distressing emotion aroused by impending danger, evil, pain, etc)
Worrywartmonger
Created by: kateinkorea
Pronunciation: WER ee WART MONG ger
Sentence: Joe is such a worrywartmonger. He thinks everyone is out to start a war. He has his whole basement lined with canned goods, and he swears his next door neighbour is having seances with Hitler.
Etymology: WORRYWART: Someone who worries about a lot of things WARMONGER: a person who tries to start wars and encourage others to start wars
Nucleangst
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: new-cle-angst
Sentence: To see Grandma now, you'd never know that she once was a hippie anti-war protester whose nucleangst gave her the courage to face lines of National Guardsman putting flowers in the barrels of their rifles.
Etymology: nuclear: of, using or posessing atomic bomba + angst: a feeling of anxiety or apprehension often accompanied by depression
Nuclearharmsrace
Created by: splendiction
Pronunciation: nu clear harms race
Sentence: At the suggestion that a large number of nuclear weapons exist globally, the group, strangely didn’t admit the need for a nuclearharmsrace that many others did.
Etymology: This word is a combination of "nuclear arms race" and harm. Nuclear weapons are extremely harmful to the human race.
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COMMENTS:
Wonderful sentence! Well-crafted verbotomy! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-04: 22:46:00
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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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Fussion
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: fyoo-shun (like fusion)
Sentence: A frission of anxiety ran through Amanda as she read the magazine article on the H bombs. She did not know that is was a publication of the conspiracy theorists, and was soon in a complete state of fussion.
Etymology: fusion (a type of nuclear reaction) + fuss (worry) Frisson (a shudder of emotion) + fission (another type of nuclear reaction)
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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