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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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Furensics
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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Drissection
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)
Lintpearls
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)
Fuzzwuzzwhat
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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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)
Delintiation
Created by: Negatrev
Pronunciation: Di-lin-tea-eh-shun
Sentence: Margret was becoming annoyed with constantly having to delintiate he husbands pockets.
Etymology: Delintiate(to remove dryer fluff from clothes)
Flaeces
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
Damfluffagain
Created by: emoorefrombmore
Pronunciation: dam-fluff-again
Sentence: As Sally emptied the dryer, her hand was ingulfed in the damfluffagain.
Etymology:
Hampster
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.
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by artr. Thank you artr. ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by artr. Thank you artr. ~ James
artipt - 2018-09-01: 11:49:00
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