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DEFINITION: n. The tight-packed wads of fluff found in the dryer after doing laundry. v. To uncurl and dissect the fluff found in a dryer while trying to figure what it once was.
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Lintpearls
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: lintpərlz
Sentence: Amongst her skills as a mother Sandy now claims archeologist. When she does the laundry, she will occasionally miss some piece of paper that was stuffed in one of her kid’s pockets. She then has to carefully dissect the resulting lintpearls to discover what note or notice she missed. Just last week she used her tweezers and Xacto to reconstruct a teacher/parent conference appointment.
Etymology: lint (short, fine fibers that separate from the surface of cloth or yarn during processing) + 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)
Furz
Created by: feltcap
Pronunciation: fûrz
Sentence: As she pulled the crispy cat carcass out of the dryer she suddenly knew where all the furz in the lint trap had come from.
Etymology: fur - the thick coat of soft hair covering the skin of a mammal, fuzz - a mass or coating of fine, light fibers, hairs, or particles; down
Lintpicking
Created by: rombus
Pronunciation: lint - pik - king
Sentence: Now wait just a lintpicking minute, Charles yelled....what the heck happened to my new man thongs? His heart sank as he saw they had been reduced to a wad of tiger spotted, frazzle at the bottom of the dryer...
Etymology: lint, picking -- Lint (fine ravellings of cotton or linen fibers) picking (remove in small bits)
Fibreobjects
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.
Furensics
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: furr ehn ziks
Sentence: His furensic examination of the siemens led him to believe that the bosch had led the detail but there had been a paws before final extermination.
Etymology: forensic fur
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COMMENTS:
puntastic - Jabberwocky, 2009-02-18: 13:19:00
like it! - mweinmann, 2009-02-19: 08:28:00
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Hampster
Created by: Ismelstar
Pronunciation: [ham-pster]
Sentence: Slogging throught one's laundry was one thing, Hannah decided, but dehampsterfying Andy's dryer was rather like mucking out the stables and required a degree in zoology.
Etymology: Mash up of Hamper, a large basket or other receptacle, usually with a cover as in for clothes and Hamster a short-tailed, stout-bodied, burrowing rodent.
Drissection
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)
Flaeces
Created by: simoneshin
Pronunciation: flea-seize
Sentence: I know there's beasts living in your dryer. But judging from the size of flaeces, it must be one big **
Etymology: fleece, faeces
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by artr. Thank you artr. ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by artr. Thank you artr. ~ James
artipt - 2018-09-01: 11:49:00
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