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Nngyah! - the involuntary sound made when one experiences simultaneous feelings of shock and revulsion, as if something you definitely wouldn’t want to touch has suddenly and inexplicably appeared on the floor of your living room.The exclamation point is part of the sound, by the way. Nngyah! accompanying, as it always does, shock and revulsion, can only ever be exclaimed. Often when a person let’s out a Nngyah!, they also either clutch their hands to their chest as if getting them as far from the offending object as possible, or to their mouth when the offending object is a particularly grotesque and surprising person.What are some situations where you might accidently let fly a Nngyah!? Consider the following:
Person 1: “Check this out! A Raccoon bit a chunk out of my calf, and now I have gangrene!”
Person 2:“Nngyah!”
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Person 1: “Egads! What is that?”
Hideous Creature: (waving disfigured appendages, and dripping alien goo) ”Bleeargh!”
Person 2: ”Nngyah!”
Person 1: “Check out the cover of this comic. Did you know Superman was apparently really sexist?”
Person 2: “Nngyah!”
Person 1: ”What’s wrong with you? It’s just an old comic cover.”
Person 2: ”Sorry, but I just realized you’re not a dude.”
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Person 1: ”Guess what? I’m marrying your mom! We won’t just be childhood friends anymore!”
Person 2: ”Nngyah!”
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This was a great laugh!
Brilliant buddy. I’m surprised to see that wordpress could prompt just clever posts.
Gah! Now there’s so much pressure for the next one to be better! But on the other hand, if nobody ever told me this one was funny, I’d be all discouraged and wonder if anyone liked it at all. Oh, blogging, why do you mess with my mind?