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DEFINITION: v. To pick up a piece of lint from the floor that your vacuum missed, and then drop it in front of the vacuum again, to give the vacuum another chance to suck it up. n. A piece of lint that a vacuum will not pick up.
Verboticisms
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Muffigan
Created by: ballandcue
Pronunciation: [muhFF-again]
Sentence: I had to turn up the setting on the vacuum because of a damn muffigan.
Etymology:
Electrolax
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: ee lek tro lax
Sentence: When Jane Edgar Hoover tried to clean the cat hair from her rugs, she found her vacuum cleaner became an Electrolax. That nice door-to-door salesman had showed her the tufts of cat hair he had collected with the machine he sold her. She just failed to notice by now that the ones he emptied from the demo machine were a black color...unlike her Ginger Tom, Marmalade's, natural fur colour.
Etymology: Electrolux (The Electrolux Group is a Swedish appliance maker, including vacuum cleaners) & Lax (tolerant or lenient)
Revacuee
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: ree-vak-you-ee
Sentence: She would have been done vacuuming 10 minutes ago, but she got fuzztrated with a five-time revacuee.
Etymology: re-vacuum, evacuee
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COMMENTS:
excellent purple - I thought you'd go with another one of your wonderful verbots 'carpettunnelsyndrome' - Jabberwocky, 2008-04-04: 08:36:00
Wow, I don't even remember making that word. Guess I have forgotomy. - purpleartichokes, 2008-04-04: 10:59:00
Great word. - OZZIEBOB, 2008-04-07: 05:04:00
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Resuckle
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: ree - suk - l
Sentence: Gloria decided to resuckle the pieces of newspaper and lint that her gerbils had torn up. No matter how many times she kept sucking up the same debris, it kept coming back out for another round.
Etymology: recycle + suck
Hoovermanuever
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: hoo ver man oov er
Sentence: It was a catatonic experience when Miranda did her hoovermaneuver and sucked up half the cat.
Etymology: Hoover (brand of vacuum) & Maneuver (an action aimed at evading an opponent)
Redysonized
Created by: abrakadeborah
Pronunciation: ree-dye-son-ized
Sentence: Kelly Kitaen redysonized all the pesky fur that didn't want to get sucked up off her white carpet.
Etymology: To vacuum over again with your Dyson vacuum cleaner
Malevolint
Created by: toadstool57
Pronunciation: mal-ev-o-lant
Sentence: Jill and her super sucker are no match for the malevolint fiber clinging to the carpet. She tries sucking it, pulling it, and picking it. She finally decides it's easier to call the local store to change the carpet in the room.
Etymology: malevolent,(evil,harmful)/lint(fiber)
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COMMENTS:
nice - bookowl, 2008-04-04: 15:55:00
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Vaccillate
Created by: Jamagra
Pronunciation: vaks'/i/late
Sentence: Dylan Dyson, Danbarry Cinema employee, had a difficult time dealing with the dirt and debris on the theater's Dalton carpet. The lint in the lobby had latched on like a limpet to limestone. The threads in the theater had thoroughly thwarted him. In the vestibule the vexed vacuumer decided that hand-feeding the sweeper had lost all its charm, and somebody else could vaccillate all that lint. He assigned the task to a junior associate.
Etymology: vacuum + vacillate
Dustcusser
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: duhst-kuhs-er
Sentence: Denise is an animal lover but she has absolutely no sympathy for dust bunnies. She likes nothing better than the whoomp sound of a clump of lint going up the hose of her vacuum. Nothing turns her into a dustcusser faster than a clump of fuzz that clings to the floor, refusing to succumb to the Hoover.
Etymology: dustbuster (a handheld cordless vacuum cleaner) + cusser (someone who swears; curses)
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by doseydotes. Thank you doseydotes. ~ James
stache - 2008-04-04: 06:52:00
recapitulint
stache - 2008-04-04: 07:08:00
(oops. it's early here.)
Jamagra - 2008-04-04: 08:22:00
I think this one was an actual Sniglet back in the day... can't remember the word, though. :)
Hey Jamagra, I think that sniglet was "carpetuation", which very good because it does seem to take long time to vacuum up a cat. ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by doseydotes. Thank you doseydotes. ~ James