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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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Fuzztrated
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: fuz-trayt-ehd
Sentence: Wanda was growing ever more fuzztrated by the lint ball that her vaccum simply refused to pick up even after more than a dozen attempts.
Etymology: Blend of 'fuzz' (fine light particles or fibers (as of down or fluff) and 'frustrated' (to make ineffectual : bring to nothing (2): impede, obstruct)
Relinterate
Created by: mrskellyscl
Pronunciation: re-lint-er-ate
Sentence: "Let me relinterate," said Marcia, as she dropped the missed lint back in front of the vacuum cleaner for the third time.
Etymology: reiterate: to say or do something repeatedly + lint: clingy piece of fiber or fuzz.
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COMMENTS:
Very good! - Mustang, 2009-05-25: 21:02:00
Perfect. - hyperborean, 2009-05-27: 23:25:00
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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
Hoovermaneuver
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: hoo ver man oo ver
Sentence: Al Capone was one nasty gangster who terrorized Chicago during Prohibition. Despite many arrests by the FBI, he always slithered out of their reach by having even more dishonest lawyers and buying out the police, judges and city officials. The FBI called in the Treasury and under Eliot Ness, Capone was eventually caught on tax evasion and sentenced to life. This hoovermaneuver sucked him out of mainstream, like a piece of lint into a giant canister until he died in prison of syphilis. Here endeth the lesson.
Etymology: Hoover (vacuum cleaner brand;lawyer who director of the FBI for 48 years)
Ifatfirstyoudontsuckseed
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: iff aht furst ewe dohnt suk seeeeeed
Sentence: ifatfirstyoudontsuckseed, purrsevere
Etymology: if at first you don'r succeed, suck
Sonnovalint
Created by: youmustvotenato
Pronunciation: son-of-a-lint
Sentence: No matter how many times I tried, I just couldn't get that sonnovalint off the carpet.
Etymology: son-of-a: a pest or annoying; lint - randoms found on the floor.
Eurekagain
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: yoŏrēkəgen
Sentence: Milly is one to give everybody a second chance. This even applies to dust bunnies. If her sad old vacuum isn’t able to pick up a lump of dust, she has been known to give them the Eurekagain treatment, running over and over these fuzzy little critters usually with less-than-wonderful results. She may even get down on her hands and knees to break up dustballs to make them easier to deal with.
Etymology: eureka (A brand of vaccuum)(a cry of joy or satisfaction when one finds or discovers something) + again (another time; once more)
Muffigan
Created by: ballandcue
Pronunciation: [muhFF-again]
Sentence: I had to turn up the setting on the vacuum because of a damn muffigan.
Etymology:
Fluffshuffle
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: fluff-shuff-l
Sentence: Colette was a former dancer. She loved to put on 'The Hustle' while she vacuumed the floor, and jiggle around the lounge and breaking into a fluffshuffle when she found bits of obstilint.
Etymology: fluff (stuff to be vacuumed) + shuffle (moving backwards and forwards over a small distance)
Vaccelibate
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: vak-SEL-uh-beyt
Sentence: "Fingernail", who for so long, somehow, managed to avoid being sucked up, finally succumbed. But just after she was lifted up, there was movement inside the bag and she feared she was about to be split in half. There in front of her was her friend, "Cotton-bud" looking used, abused, and a little worse for wear. Blackened by several layers of mascara, and her face covered in rouge, it was the bedraggled "CB" who spoke first. "Where's "Ivory Button," she said. "Oh, you know what it's like, with her its a matter of life-choice, replied Fingernail. Even Casahoova, himself - "Mr Super Deluxe" with his long proboscis and pulling power, couldn't move her. Sure he tried, and really sucked up to her; caressing, cajoling, cooing and wooing. But Heaven forbid she suckmit to him and his pushy ways. She's an inveterate vaccelibate, who wouldn't allow herself to be picked up by a sucker like him."
Etymology: VAC:short for vacuum cleaner & CELIBATE: one who abstains from sexual relations - and, certainly, wouldn't allow him or herself to be "picked-up."
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COMMENTS:
I think she turned Casahoova into Casahoovanovay - Jabberwocky, 2008-04-04: 08:46:00
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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