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'Honey, have you seen Wilbur?'

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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Dustin

Created by: alclsdkrak1

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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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Drissection

artr

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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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)

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Unflaffel

alexandre

Created by: alexandre

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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.'

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Eniglint

SamusMan

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

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Lintpearls

artr

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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Enlintenment

DnBrown

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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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

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Comments:

Verbotomy Verbotomy - 2009-02-18: 00:01:01
Today's definition was suggested by artr. Thank you artr. ~ James

Verbotomy 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
Доброго времени суток! Хотите быть финансово независимым? Тогда смотрите курс! Готовый курс. "Шаг