Outrageously Funny Word Dictionary :: Flavobacterium like

👉 Okay, let’s tackle this wonderfully weird beast of a phrase! Defining, let alone explaining, what someone "flavobacterium-like is," really boils down to…a very specific kind of bewildered awkwardness. You basically mean you feel vaguely unsettled and strangely similar in your personal experience – not exactly identical, mind you—to the phlegmy, somewhat slimy, entirely sedentary freshwater bacteria called
Flaphylococcus vitreolus
.

Now, before the entomology freak-otron gets seriously alarmed, let me clarify. The genus name is a mouthful, it frankly resembles nothing visually of note, and frankly it just… exists in perpetually lukewarm petri dishes, clustering into vaguely amorphous shapes that give you that feeling you've already lived this exact moment somewhere else. Basically, when someone says they feel “flavobacterium-like," they haven’t quite articulated the specific shade of existential dampness, but there's a low hum beneath the skin that whispers, "You know, I suspect this isn't what I was meant to do. It is…wet. And slow. And probably nobody noticed I was here. Here's my edgy (and slightly unsettling) example sentence: — After spending three days alone with the dripping tap and a lukewarm Earl Grey, he suddenly realised that his entire being felt profoundly flavobacterium-like, as if he himself had simply been slowly accumulating in a forgotten corner of some damp, uninteresting room.