unicorn puke
- noun
- Slang
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vómito de unicornio
- That painting looks like unicorn puke!
Examples
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The children decorated the room in a style best described as unicorn puke.
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The bakery specializes in cupcakes topped with swirls of unicorn puke.
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My notebook cover is so bright and busy, it looks like unicorn puke.
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I can't believe how much unicorn puke is in this design.
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My notebook cover is so bright and busy, it looks like unicorn puke.
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The bakery specializes in cupcakes topped with swirls of unicorn puke.
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The children decorated the room in a style best described as unicorn puke.
Synonyms
A very bright design with many playful colors on things like clothes or cakes
A bright mix of clashing pastel and neon colors
A very messy, confused mix of things in one place
Antonyms
How Colorful
Surface Forms
Morphology
unicorn + puke
The noun phrase combines literal constituents ('unicorn' + 'puke') so a learner who knows those words can infer an image of a unicorn vomiting — i.e., brightly colored/rainbow vomit — which maps onto 'very colorful and messy'. However, the interpretation depends on cultural/conventional associations (unicorns → rainbow/bright imagery) and a playful metaphorical shift, so the meaning is inferable but not strictly compositional.
Etymology
Unicorn puke comes from the silly image of a unicorn, a bright magical horse, plus the word puke, imagining the horse actually puking rainbows and glitter. People use that funny picture to talk about things that are wild, bright and messy, so unicorn puke means 'extremely colorful and messy'.