Verboticisms

Created by: emoorefrombmore

Pronunciation: dam-fluff-again

Sentence: As Sally emptied the dryer, her hand was ingulfed in the damfluffagain.

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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: kateinkorea

Pronunciation: FUZZ WUZZ WHAT

Sentence: "What the fuzz is this?" she said as she pulled the wad of fuzzwuzzwhat out of the dryer. "I have no idea," he replied."And who cares. What are you fussing about the fuzz for?" he asked. "Well, it's just that we haven't seen Fuzzy Wuzzy around in a few days and...well...ya know...never mind."

Etymology: FUZZ: WAS WHAT:

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COMMENTS:

Nice - TJayzz, 2009-02-18: 18:31:00

Time to call in The Fuzz! Cute word - Nosila, 2009-02-19: 00:22:00

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Created by: xxmel

Pronunciation: Fuz-Splah-Ch-Tur

Sentence: Jane was perplexed to see a fuzzsplochter of so many colors and shades alongside her freshly washed sweater.

Etymology: Fuzz - Soft, fluff, consisting of little; Splotch - Blob, ball

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Created by: Jabberwocky

Pronunciation: lin/tur/breed/ing

Sentence: The linterbreeding that goes on in our dryer is embarassingly lintcestuous.

Etymology: lint + interbreeding

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COMMENTS:

Great! - TJayzz, 2009-02-18: 18:29:00

Funny - mweinmann, 2009-02-19: 08:29:00

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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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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: 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: 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

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