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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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Furz
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
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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Damfluffagain
Created by: emoorefrombmore
Pronunciation: dam-fluff-again
Sentence: As Sally emptied the dryer, her hand was ingulfed in the damfluffagain.
Etymology:
Eniglint
Created by: SamusMan
Pronunciation:
Sentence: "No, honey. You can still wear that shirt--it's just got some eniglint stuck to it is all."
Etymology: Enigma + Lint
Linternet
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: lint er net
Sentence: When June cleaned out the mesh on her dryer, it was always filled with what she called linternet...those little bits of fabric and material that were always floating around in fibre space.
Etymology: lint (dryer fluff;loose fibres) & Internet (world wide web)
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
Fiberspace
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)
Identifibre
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
Fibreobjects
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.
Comments:
Verbotomy - 2009-02-18: 00:01:01
Today's definition was suggested by artr. Thank you artr. ~ James
Verbotomy - 2010-09-01: 00:11:00
Today's definition was suggested by artr. Thank you artr. ~ James
artipt - 2018-09-01: 11:49:00
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