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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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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
Naplication
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: nap-li-ca-shen
Sentence: Naplication is a perfect excuse for my wrinkles. At this age, it's hard to tell if the wrinkles are from the pillow or if I really look like that.
Etymology: nap: + plication: the act or process of folding
Sheetfaced
Created by: rikboyee
Pronunciation: sheet-fayst
Sentence: after a heavy night of celebrating it was no surprise when i woke up sheetfaced
Etymology: sheet, face, shitfaced
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COMMENTS:
HA! Love it! - purpleartichokes, 2007-11-26: 04:43:00
But of course!! Good word. - Mustang, 2007-11-26: 06:34:00
excellent word - Jabberwocky, 2007-11-26: 13:19:00
Bring to mind an old expression - to go to bed, " To go down sheet alley into Bedfordshire." Fine word! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-11-26: 20:47:00
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Sheetfaced
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: shētfāst
Sentence: After a late night of partying and a very short stint face down on the bed Lillie found that she was again sheetfaced.
Etymology: sheet (a large rectangular piece of cotton or other fabric, used on a bed) + face (the front part of a person*s head from the forehead to the chin) a play off sh*tfaced
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COMMENTS:
aha - Nosila, 2010-03-20: 00:06:00
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Pillowglyph
Created by: Buzzardbilly
Pronunciation: pillowglyph (pil-ou-glif)
Sentence: When he awakened one side of his face was covered in a pillowglyph that resembled Nazca lines. -OR- She had obviously been sleeping quite heavy as her arms, face, and what part I could see of her legs quite a pillowglyphic display.
Etymology: pillow (a cushion generally used for sleeping) + glyph (shortened from dermatoglyph because "glyph" itself is easily understood as "a symbolic figure carved or incised in relief"; whereas, "dermatoglyph" refers to lines forming on the skin)
Sheenkles
Created by: lynne61
Pronunciation: sheen - kuls
Sentence: Mildred was getting frustrated, very frustrated. She's spent thousands on wrinkle remedies only to find out her favorite linens were the cause of the sheenkles on her face!
Etymology: shee shortened from the word: sheet and kles from: wrinkles
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COMMENTS:
Amen! - Nosila, 2008-10-22: 21:41:00
Sheenkles ROCKS! Just the right amount of sillisound to pique the imagination! - metrohumanx, 2008-10-23: 17:11:00
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Revalley
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: rev-ell-ee
Sentence: Dolores was very depressed having woken with a bad case of revalley. It wasn't quite as bad as when she enjoyed a mid-afternoon nap and woke with craquelaze, but she still felt it was time to throw out the mancreaster and buy some new sheets.
Etymology: reveille (bugle call to wake up military personnel fr. to wake up) + valley (depressions, channels, cracks on the landscape) (craquelure + crackle glaze + laze --> craquelaze) (manchester + crease --> mancreaster)
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COMMENTS:
nice mixture - Jabberwocky, 2007-11-26: 13:23:00
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Sleepleat
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: sleep/pleet
Sentence: It was difficult to deny that she'd fallen asleep when her face was riddled with sleepleats.
Etymology: sleep + pleat
Facingstripes
Created by: bbawden
Pronunciation: Fayss-eeng-straips
Sentence: Susanne was tired of her old look, so she was happy the next morning to find freshly applied facingstripes
Etymology: Face- that thing on your head Stripes, vertical or horizontal lines.
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