Verboticisms

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: 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)

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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: simoneshin

Pronunciation: flea-seize

Sentence: I know there's beasts living in your dryer. But judging from the size of flaeces, it must be one big **

Etymology: fleece, faeces

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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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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: 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: readerwriter

Pronunciation: rihm-lihnt

Sentence: Mrs. Edith Estelle Austin won prizes every year for her orchids. She had shared with no one her secret: she was sure it was the rimlint she had the pleasure of gathering from her dryer. After each load, she would run the tips of her fingers over the soft links of metal in the screen at the edge of the dryer's round mouth. Next, she ran the fluff over the drippings of laundry detergent always left on top of the dryer, cleaning it in the process--oh, the joys of housekeeping!. Kept in a jar, over the course of a few months, the thoroughly moistened rimlint would ferment. When perfected, she would dilute the brew with water and add a teaspoon or so each time she watered her orchids. She also found rubbing it on her elbows helped her arthritis.

Etymology: Combination of RIM, the outer edge of something + LINT, fine bits of fiber or fluff; also a play on REMNANT, something left over

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COMMENTS:

Great story - funny, even if Edith is a bit twisted! - splendiction, 2009-02-18: 12:48:00

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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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COMMENTS:

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

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

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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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