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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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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.
Lintuff
Created by: mordecai0123
Pronunciation: (lint-uff)
Sentence: "Honey, when you empty the dryer, please clean the lintuff out of the filter."
Etymology: Lintuff comes from the Greek word 'lytnuf' which simply means 'fabric droppings.'
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
Lintspection
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)
Whirlpoolint
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: WURL-pool-lint
Sentence: Salome 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 including clothes dryers) and 'Lint' ( fuzz consisting especially of fine ravelings and short fibers of yarn and fabric)
Whirlpearl
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: wərlpərl
Sentence: After John retired he had to find things to keep himself busy. Sometimes it was shopping, sometimes sorting his clothes by color and hue. But today there would be none of that. Last night after doing the laundry he had found a whirlpearl — one of those time capsules of thoughts or actions past. Was it a receipt? Perhaps a shopping list, maybe even a prescription for his new OCD medication. He wouldn't know until he unfurled the various layers of this nugget. This was a particularly good one. It had escaped detection after the washing and had hard-baked through the dryer cycle. He could hardly wait.
Etymology: Whirlpool(major appliance manufacturer) + 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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COMMENTS:
you've obviously been a whirlpearl diver - Jabberwocky, 2009-02-18: 13:21:00
Whirlpearling is exhausting...in fact, it can leave you nacre-ed! - Nosila, 2009-02-19: 00:27:00
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Godfluffsaken
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)
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)
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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