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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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Fluffenter
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! :)
Scantymatter
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: skan tee matt urr
Sentence: Having examined the relationship between the increase in the substance and the increased flimsiness of her undergarments, she concluded that for the most part it was scantymatter
Etymology: antimatter, scanty
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)
Fuzzmunnies
Created by: silveryaspen
Pronunciation: fuzz muh nees
Sentence: Tight wads of paper appear on top of the clothes in the dryer. If we are lucky, those aridonesies are only fuzzyonesies, but all too often, those fuzz bunnies are more costly fuzzmunnies.
Etymology: fuzz, money - paper money turned into tightwads of fuzzy balls in the dryer. Of course, fuzzmunnies is the obvious play on dust bunnies, the slang term for balls of lint and dust.
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COMMENTS:
Darn! Those fuzz bunnies are back briefly again this week! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-18: 01:30:00
How bout some fuzz mummies? - mweinmann, 2009-02-18: 08:25:00
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Godfluffsaken
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)
Lintspection
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: lint spek shun
Sentence: When Sarah was studying forensics, she always did a lintspection on her own dryer fluff to determine its origin. She came to the conclusion that those socks that "disappeared" in the dryer, actually became unravelled due to the stress of daily living and their remains ended up in the lint trap. Hosiery hari-kiri, sock suicide...so sad.
Etymology: Lint (dryer fluff;unravelled fibres) & Inspection (a formal or official examination)
Delintiation
Created by: Negatrev
Pronunciation: Di-lin-tea-eh-shun
Sentence: Margret was becoming annoyed with constantly having to delintiate he husbands pockets.
Etymology: Delintiate(to remove dryer fluff from clothes)
Whirlpoolint
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.
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)
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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