Verboticisms

Created by: Nosila

Pronunciation: fy ber spays

Sentence: Fyberspace is that mysterious area where some socks go to unravel, while their mates disappear into the dryer vortex. All the effluvium of the dryer compresses itself into fyberspace and waits in the lint trap until it overflows and can jump out and run free on the laundry floor. It ultimately is the laundry lint limbo, the precursor of the washday blues and a reason to sneeze twenty times.

Etymology: Fiber (a material made by compressing layers of paper or cloth) & Space(the unlimited expanse in which everything is located;an area reserved for some particular purpose) & Play on Cyberspace(computer network)

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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: 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: alclsdkrak1

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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)

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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

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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: 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: 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: 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.

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