Verboticisms

Created by: SamusMan

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Sentence: "No, honey. You can still wear that shirt--it's just got some eniglint stuck to it is all."

Etymology: Enigma + Lint

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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: WURL-pool-lint

Sentence: Salome was absolutely astounded at the amount of Whirlpoolint she found in the dryer after each use of the appliance and she marveled at how big some of the dustbunnies were and tried to figure out which garment or other article produced them.

Etymology: Blend of 'Whirlpool' (a brand of appliances including clothes dryers) and 'Lint' ( fuzz consisting especially of fine ravelings and short fibers of yarn and fabric)

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Created by: scrabbelicious

Pronunciation: ˈfʌɪ:bə:ˈɒbd:ʒɪkts

Sentence: Sloppy Joe's belly button was a subject of endless examination. When it came to cleaning the filter of his washing machine, he knew exactly what to do, there goes the weekend, he was overcome with fibreobjects. Call my fluff, that's a word baby.

Etymology: Entangling of 1 -)Fibre: Being made of strands. 2 -)Objects: Is supposed to be opposed but is really something. When said altogether not very obviously a pun on "fiber optics" - the means by which a cyborg is able to see. Part of a device used to make an image by transmission of light.

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Created by: alclsdkrak1

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Created by: splendiction

Pronunciation: wash and tair

Sentence: Joe decided he really didn’t need a new watch – he had a cell phone. Where did that receipt for the watch go!? And, where did he leave his phone this time? Joe remembered he left his trousers on the floor, a sign indicating their need of a wash. He stealthily made his way downstairs in the dark to the basement laundrytank, opened the hatch and began rummaging through cool clothing tangles. Ah! there they were! Joe deftly slipped a cold hand into his trouser pocket, then, the other – no phone. However, he did pull out the damp washntears of what appeared to be his receipt! After careful washntearing apart the washntear, he had managed to see faded scrawls on paper tears, of what, he could not read. He looked at the new watch on his wrist: at least he had the time!

Etymology: washntear n or v. A play on the marketing term "washnwear". It is from "washnwear", material that purports to need no ironing after washing and "tear", to pull apart, ruin.

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Created by: Mustang

Pronunciation: whurl-pool-lint

Sentence: Marjorie was absolutely astounded at the amount of Whirlpoolint she found in the dryer after each use of the appliance and she marveled at how big some of the dustbunnies were and tried to figure out which garment or other article produced them.

Etymology: Blend of Whirlpool, a brand of appliances and Lint.

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: wərlpərl

Sentence: After John retired he had to find things to keep himself busy. Sometimes it was shopping, sometimes sorting his clothes by color and hue. But today there would be none of that. Last night after doing the laundry he had found a whirlpearl — one of those time capsules of thoughts or actions past. Was it a receipt? Perhaps a shopping list, maybe even a prescription for his new OCD medication. He wouldn't know until he unfurled the various layers of this nugget. This was a particularly good one. It had escaped detection after the washing and had hard-baked through the dryer cycle. He could hardly wait.

Etymology: Whirlpool(major appliance manufacturer) + pearls (a hard, lustrous spherical mass, typically white or bluish-gray, formed within the shell of a pearl oyster or other bivalve mollusk and highly prized as a gem)

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COMMENTS:

you've obviously been a whirlpearl diver - Jabberwocky, 2009-02-18: 13:21:00

Whirlpearling is exhausting...in fact, it can leave you nacre-ed! - Nosila, 2009-02-19: 00:27:00

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Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: fy ber spays

Sentence: Fyberspace is that mysterious area where some socks go to unravel, while their mates disappear into the dryer vortex. All the effluvium of the dryer compresses itself into fyberspace and waits in the lint trap until it overflows and can jump out and run free on the laundry floor. It ultimately is the laundry lint limbo, the precursor of the washday blues and a reason to sneeze twenty times.

Etymology: Fiber (a material made by compressing layers of paper or cloth) & Space(the unlimited expanse in which everything is located;an area reserved for some particular purpose) & Play on Cyberspace(computer network)

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Created by: alexandre

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Created by: artr

Pronunciation: kuh-vey-shuhn

Sentence: Jane often forgets to check pockets before she does the laundry. She regularly finds little wads of paper that she calls laundry pearls. She has become quite expert at drissection of grocery lists and receipts.

Etymology: drier (a machine, appliance, or apparatus for removing moisture, as by forced ventilation or heat) + dissection (to cut apart something to examine the structure, relation of parts, or the like)

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