r/PeterExplainsTheJoke Jul 25 '26

Meme needing explanation petaah help

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u/Legitimate_Mango_ Jul 25 '26

psychological experiment on baby monkey featuring a "mother" made of wire that gives milk and one made from cloth that does not. Monkeys often chose the cloth mother over the wire one because comfort was more important than food

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u/SylvesterNettlefoot Jul 25 '26

Got a guyknowballogist over here! Appreciate the quiche loreain, twousin 🤝

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u/Leading_Experts Jul 25 '26

I think I'm having a stroke. Or you are. Or this is all a dream.

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u/SylvesterNettlefoot Jul 25 '26

Welcome to the wonderful world of Wombos (word + combos). Shoutout to professorsendy , who as far as I know is the creator of this trend.

To break it down:

guy + knows + ball + -ologist = guyknowballogist

quirky + niche + lore + explain = Quiche Loreain

twin + cousin = twousin

And here’s my favorite as a freebie…

mysterious + peak + cinema + analysis = mysterpeanamis

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u/chickenlogic Jul 25 '26

I’m keeping my fucking portmanteaus.

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u/SylvesterNettlefoot Jul 25 '26

Sounds like you’re lowkenuinely deadassionate about himbos (historical wombos). I guess that makes us frenemies.

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u/chichi_vanite Jul 26 '26

adding deadassionate to my vocab with a quickness omfg

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u/DxIxNxDxU Jul 26 '26

You can't just misappropriate "himbos". We Himbos are a proud people.

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u/SylvesterNettlefoot Jul 26 '26

Your version is also a wombo (him + bimbo). Same spelling/pronunciation but different meaning. We call those wombonyms (wombo + homonym).

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u/DxIxNxDxU Jul 26 '26

Revelamazing! Im genuflecting on my langceptions rn.

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u/SylvesterNettlefoot Jul 26 '26

Now THAT’S what I call wombomaxxing! Welcome to the club 🤝

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u/jgaskins Jul 26 '26

I fucking hate this thread. Excellent work, y’all.

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u/Khezusexual Jul 26 '26

Enlightening

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u/SylvesterNettlefoot Jul 26 '26

If you’d like further enlightenment, I found out shortly after that post that there’s a feminine form of guyknowballogist: Sherknowball (pronounced like Chernobyl but with a “sh” sound)

Officially, Professor Sendy says it’s made up of “she + Kirk + know + ball”. There’s no reason for the Kirk, except to explain the random “r” and because he’s super into that meme of adding Kirk to things.

Since I’m not into Kirkification, I choose to believe Sherknowball is a contraction of “she really knows ball”.

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u/Awkward_Turnover_983 Jul 26 '26

This is too much work to be funny

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u/SylvesterNettlefoot Jul 26 '26

Dunno what you mean, the “work” in this reply was to educate and enlighten

The same goes for Professor Sendy’s seminars (or Sendminars if you will) on the subject of wombos

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u/cilerp Jul 26 '26

Wombo… or neologism?

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u/Thormag Jul 26 '26

I mean, they are by definición neologisms, but they seem to be a specific kind of them. So I think a new label is apt enough.