My mom had a word for an emotional state that I’ve always thought should be part of our regular lexicon.
The word is BUNKY.
Bunky is the way you feel on a dreary, rainy day. Or the way you feel after you wake up from a deep afternoon nap. Or when you’re just feeling inward and quiet.
I have no idea where she got this word, whether she made it up herself or learned it from her own mother.
It’s rainy out today, and dreary. And I’m at work (because Buzz is at the hospital with his mom and someone needed to be here to answer phones and coordinate truckrolls for various customers reporting trouble) and I’d much rather be home with some incense burning and the dryer running and warming things up.
I’m feeling very bunky today.
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Good word.
Bunky – and ‘lexicon’ too.
I am feeling rather bunky myself… must be the drear.
Not only do I think your mom made up Bunky, but I find it hilarious that it is dangerously close to a word my friend Amy and I made up years ago. We used to run together in the mornings sometimes, and we made up the word “bunkus” for the crusties that magically appear in the corners of people’s mouths when they are breathing through their mouths. Because seriously, there’s no other way to describe it. It’s just bunkus.