Verboticisms

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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puntastic - Jabberwocky, 2009-02-18: 13:19:00

like it! - mweinmann, 2009-02-19: 08:28:00

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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: TJayzz

Pronunciation: I-den-tee-fy-ber

Sentence: When Sue went to empty her tumble drier she found it was full of strange looking fluff, on trying to identifibre the cause she realised her young daughter had put in her old teddy bear and the stuffing had mixed with the lint from the clothes.

Etymology: Identify(establish the identity of) + Fibre(a thread from which textiles are formed) = Identifibre

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Created by: mordecai0123

Pronunciation: (lint-uff)

Sentence: "Honey, when you empty the dryer, please clean the lintuff out of the filter."

Etymology: Lintuff comes from the Greek word 'lytnuf' which simply means 'fabric droppings.'

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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)

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Created by: mweinmann

Pronunciation: fluff - stuff

Sentence: Josh was still scarred by the memory of Charlie and how he turned up missing the summer Josh was 7. After looking for his pet rabbit everywhere for 4 days and going through the anguish of knowing he might be "out there somewhere" to be eaten by coyotes; Josh learned that he had been turned into a pile of fluffstuff by his mom's dryer.

Etymology: Fluff + Stuff >> Fluff (Anything light, soft or fuzzy, especially fur, hair, feathers) Stuff (material: the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object;Stuff is a course cloth, sometimes made with a linen warp and worsted weft)

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Created by: sam145

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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: Toaster

Pronunciation: Ark e fluf o ge

Sentence: Sally was curious about what the fluff in the dryer might have once been, so she decided to engage in the enthralling activity of archefluffogy.

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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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