Thursday, May 14, 2009

Slang Gang Word of the Day


May 14: cobra yawn

The involuntary spraying of saliva while yawning. Much like the venom spray from a cobra. In most cases the yawner doesn't realized it has happened only finding the aftermath once the yawn is over.

I just cobra yawned all over my keyboard five minutes prior to writing this definition.

**I hate it when that happens**

7 comments:

tiburon said...

I hate it when that happens too.

Cept in my case it usually IS venom.

Jan said...

I hope you have some lysol handy :)

Jen said...

Did anyone die from the venomous spray? Just curious ;)

Martha H. said...

I hate it when I cobra yawn. Totally embarrassing!

Just SO said...

Oh yeah. And this happens sometimes when I cough as well.

nikkicrumpet said...

HAH that is so much better than "gleeking" which is what I thought it was called.

Becca said...

I call my husband venom every time he yawns, not so much for the spray as for the sound!