Verboticisms

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

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

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Created by: Toaster

Pronunciation: Ark e fluf o ge

Sentence: Sally was curious about what the fluff in the dryer might have once been, so she decided to engage in the enthralling activity of archefluffogy.

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Created by: DnBrown

Pronunciation: En-lint-en-ment

Sentence: Everyone who went to the Eastside Laundry mat knew to avoid dryer 7. Anytime anyone would stick an article of clothing in dryer 7, they would soon find out it would never be the same. Sweaters, underwear, and kilts all maimed by this dryer's curse. It would plaster a fluffy fiber substance all over the clothes, like leeches on an amazon swimmer. It wasn't until Jerry, a regular to the Eastside Laundry mat, was frustraited at having to wait for a open dryer. All them were being used, except for dryer 7, and he was running out of patience. Fed up with looking at the dryer collect dust, or give it, he decided to explore the hated machine. After opening the door, he looked in and suddenly gained Enlintenment, he had finally realized what was causing this community headache. He reached in the into despised appliance and pulled out a small unknown mammal. After a few minutes of empty runs, he was able to throw his load into the machine and saved the community from further "furmoil"

Etymology: Mixture of Enlightenment (education that results in understanding and the spread of knowledge) and Lint (Clinging bits of fiber and fluff; fuzz)

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Created by: sam145

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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: 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: 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: artr

Pronunciation: kuh-vey-shuhn

Sentence: Jane often forgets to check pockets before she does the laundry. She regularly finds little wads of paper that she calls laundry pearls. She has become quite expert at drissection of grocery lists and receipts.

Etymology: drier (a machine, appliance, or apparatus for removing moisture, as by forced ventilation or heat) + dissection (to cut apart something to examine the structure, relation of parts, or the like)

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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: alexandre

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