Paul’s Awesome English Dictionary: Today’s word – Iratuspeponia

Julius Caesar is, perhaps the greatest military genius ever. He defeated army after army. Jovial Julius feared no man and no army. Caesar was afraid of nothing.

Nothing?

Well no, he has afraid of angry melons. In fact, this fear did jostling Julius in on the Ides of March. Instead of seeing Roman senators converging on him, Caesar’s Salad envisioned knife-wielding melons rolling at him. So he froze like a deer in the torchlight. And the senators easily assassinated the gasping Wheezer Caesar. And the Roman Republic plunged into decades of civil war. Bummer.

If only there were a word to describe this fear. And now there is:

TODAY’S AWESOME WORD

IRATUSPEPONOIA

Awesome entry #44

 

– Paul De Lancey, The Comic Chef, Ph.D.

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  1. I conquered dyslexia and Iratuspeponia – no more fear of angry lemons for me.

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