Verboticisms

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)

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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: 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: Stevenson0

Pronunciation: god/fluff/sa/kən

Sentence: The godfluffsaken fibres of harshly tossed, spun, dried clothes are the only remnants of clean clothes.

Etymology: GODFLUFFSAKEN - from - FLUFF (light, downy particles) + GODFORSAKEN (deserted; neglected)

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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: 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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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

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Created by: petaj

Pronunciation: un+rav+felt

Sentence: Despite hours of unravfelting, Marcus, a goth from way back could never work out how the lint in his tumble dryer was always pink.

Etymology: unravel + felt

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Created by: abrakadeborah

Pronunciation: fluf-in-ter

Sentence: Snilber's pet, Wilbur became a fluffenter with all of the other fuzz bunnies in the lint jungle.

Etymology: Fluff- Inflated or padded material or fuzz. Originally Taken in part from the word "Vent" -An opening permitting the escape of fumes, a liquid, a gas, or steam or lint. Added "Er" and could also mean - Enter-To come or go into and end up getting fluffentered into tiny lint pieces! :)

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