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DEFINITION: n., The deep red lines and/or furrows, which appear on a person's face after they have slept on wrinkled or creased bed sheets. v., To wake up and discover that your face matches your wrinkled bed sheets.
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Pillowface
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /ˌpɪloʊˈfeɪs/
Sentence: Pillowface is much worse when your pillow is something other than an actual pillow, such as a spiral notebook, a keyboard, or a steering wheel.
Etymology: From pillow + face. Sounds a little like "pillowcase".
Myfaultlines
Created by: bzav1
Pronunciation: my fault lines
Sentence: The wrinkled sheets left myfaultlines all over the left side of my face. It was like an "I can't get no" relief map of the Himilayas. I would need to use a tectonic plate of moisturizer to smooth it out.
Etymology: My + fault lines
Ripvanwrinkle
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: rip-van-WRING-kuhl
Sentence: After having forty winks which seemed like forty years to her, Roxie was horrified on waking to find her face ripvanwrinkled in a deep red phizgrid.
Etymology: Ripvanwrinkle: blend of wrinkle & Rip Van Winkle, an Irving Washington character who slept for 20 years. Phizgrid: Conflation of phiz: slang for face from physiognomy & grid: a network of crossing horizontal and vertical lines.
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COMMENTS:
great minds and all that - that was the first word that sprang to my mind - so many good words today - Jabberwocky, 2007-11-26: 13:18:00
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Rumpledstillskin
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: rum peld still skin
Sentence: Despite ironing her Wabassos before bed each night, Josie and her husband, Max, woke up with Rumpledstillskin each morning. Each birthday they would joke that she should iron their Birthday Suits to get out the wrinkles! She knew it was hopeless, but she pressed on. Iron-ically, her name in Swedish was Irene Ingboard!
Etymology: Rumpled (having wrinkles) & Still (despite anything to the contrary (usually following a concession)) & Skin (Epidermis, Outer layer;a natural protective covering of the body; site of the sense of touch)& Rhymes with Rumpelstiltskin (a dwarf in one of the fairy stories of the brothers Grimm; tells a woman he will not hold her to a promise if she can guess his name and when she discovers it he is so furious that he destroys himself)
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COMMENTS:
genius! - galwaywegian, 2008-10-22: 07:33:00
Another good one! - lumina, 2008-10-22: 18:38:00
http://www.natives.co.uk/news/2002/0502/08iron.htm - metrohumanx, 2008-10-23: 17:21:00
Metro, that's imPRESSive! - Nosila, 2008-10-25: 00:28:00
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Wakeover
Created by: yellowbird
Pronunciation: wake-oh-ver
Sentence: Marge got the worst wakeover of her life while sleeping in a guest bed with an embroidered Tigger on the pillowcase.
Etymology: makeover + awaken
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COMMENTS:
And what's so awful about walking around with a 'Tigger' impression on her face, Hmm? - Tigger, 2007-11-26: 11:20:00
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Stredtch
Created by: vmalcolm
Pronunciation: /stredtʃ/
Sentence: I'm sick of my unseen stretch marks, I don't want to bear with some visible and RED ones too!
Etymology: STREDTCH. From Stretch mark (A shiny line on the skin of the abdomen, breasts, thighs, or buttocks that is often lighter than the surrounding skin and is caused by the stretching and weakening of elastic tissues as a result of pregnancy or obesity, for example) + Red (A pigment or dye having a red hue)
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COMMENTS:
Stredtch marks are rediculous without getting them from your laundry! - Nosila, 2008-10-22: 21:43:00
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Rinkbaef
Created by: coolkids58
Pronunciation:
Sentence: you have big rinkbaefs
Etymology:
Rumpledsheetskin
Created by: porsche
Pronunciation: rumpled/sheet/skin
Sentence: Rumpledsheetskin is a malady that affects nearly everyone I know.
Etymology: rumpled + sheet + skin + Rumplestiltskin
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COMMENTS:
Great word porsche! Perfectly describes it. - purpleartichokes, 2007-11-26: 18:23:00
Does indeed. Great word! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-11-26: 20:43:00
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Lininjury
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: lin-IN-jery
Sentence: In spite of her concerted efforts to avoid the condition, Sheila continued to wake up every morning with a moderately severe lininjury from having slept with her face buried in the wrinkled sheets.
Etymology: Blend of 'linen' and 'injury'.
Shruts
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: shh ruts
Sentence: Oh my God, my face is full of lines and ruts from my sheets. Oh shruts!!! All over my face.
Etymology: This word is formed from the combination of the word "sheets" as in bed sheets and "ruts" as in deep furrows or marks left by an object.
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram! ~ James
By the way, Stevenson0's crazy shopping word, "Dealusional", was published in Toronto Star as one of Top the Invented Words of the Week. See: http://www.verbotomy.com/blog/?p=223. Congratulations to Stevenson0 ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram. ~ James