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DEFINITION: n., 1. The process by which pairs of socks are washed, dried, and then separated perhaps never to be reunited again. 2. The place where lost socks disappear to. v. To lose your mate in the wash.
Verboticisms
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Detergatory
Created by: ErWenn
Pronunciation: /diˈtɜ˞dʒəˌtɔɹi/ /dee-TER-juh-TOR-ee/ or /diˈtɜ˞gəˌtɔɹi/ /dee-TER-guh-TOR-ee/ depending on dialect
Sentence: Some believe that if a lost sock is deemed clean in detergatory then it may be reincarnated as a glove.
Etymology: From detergent + Purgatory
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COMMENTS:
Great word! - Mustang, 2008-01-09: 06:21:00
as long as it isn't forced to stay in limb-o - Jabberwocky, 2008-01-09: 10:34:00
Very creative! - OZZIEBOB, 2008-01-10: 16:53:00
Reminds me of the old Laugh-In expression ... "sock it to me" ... which sockatory did for me! - silveryaspen, 2008-01-11: 13:57:00
oops ... how did I get this comment under the wrong word ... sorry! - silveryaspen, 2008-01-11: 13:58:00
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Pairnomore
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: pe(ə)rnōmôr
Sentence: Joyce has a great collection of fun and funky socks. She keeps them in sorted baskets, new, in need of repair and pairnomore for ones that have one of the partners MIA. She believes that there may be a portal to another dimension somewhere in her laundry room, perhaps in the dryer.
Etymology: Pair (a set of two things used together or regarded as a unit) no more (nothing further) play on paramour (a lover, esp. the illicit partner of a married person)
Soccuum
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: sok-yoom
Sentence: Every time Jill does laundry at least one sock is mysteriously absorbed into the socuum behind the dryer.
Etymology: sock(a short stocking usually reaching to the calf or just above the ankle)+ vacuum (a space entirely devoid of matter)
Socdition
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: soc/dish/un
Sentence: When one of my socks loses its sole, it mysteriously makes its way, on its own, to socdition, never to be found in my washer, or dryer again.
Etymology: sock + perdition (hell)
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COMMENTS:
I like the reference to souls - Jabberwocky, 2008-01-09: 10:47:00
Good word & sentence - OZZIEBOB, 2008-01-10: 16:55:00
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Lintverse
Created by: paintergrl1313
Pronunciation: Lint-verse
Sentence: My socks disappeared into the lintverse, and my boyfriend thought he found a way to get them back. I haven't seen him since.
Etymology: Lint: That stuff that always appears where your socks should be. Kind of a weird space time continuum thing. Verse: Universe
Feeternaldarnation
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: feet ternal darn ayshun
Sentence: It took Bobbie a while to realize a universal truth. When socks go into the dryer, we think they are just getting dried. The reality is they are getting tried. Crimes such as shrinking, holey toes and heels, fading or changing color and losing elasticity are punishable violations. Those guilty are sentenced to feeternal darnation...never to be seen again. Bobbie now knew that those missing hose were actually socks offenders.
Etymology: Play on Eternal Damnation (the state of being condemned to eternal punishment in Hell)...Feet (what the socks cover) & Darn (mending the holes in socks with wool/yarn; also a euphemism for damn)
Wocked
Created by: silveryaspen
Pronunciation: walked
Sentence: My washer wocked until I have no matching pair of socks.
Etymology: A play on the words wash, walked, and socks ... meaning the washer walked off with some socks.
Dissockipate
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: dis-SOK-uh-peyt
Sentence: Oh, sweet mystery of life, where do dahlgrens go when they dissockipate? Perhaps there should be a "duhrection" on socks warning that one will almost certainly "dissockipate!"
Etymology: Blend of SOCK & DISSIPATE: to scatter completely; to disperse & to disappear; used especially, of the dispersion of things that can never again be collected or restored. DAHLGRENS: an expensive brand of socks.
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COMMENTS:
nice - Jabberwocky, 2008-01-09: 10:45:00
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Launderlimbo
Created by: treehous
Pronunciation: \ˈlȯn-dər-ˈlim-(ˌ)bō\ (lawn-der-lim-bo)
Sentence: None of my socks match anymore, they keep vanishing into launderlimbo
Etymology: launder- from Latin lavendaria, pl. of lavandarium "things to be washed" limbo- from Latin (in) limbo "(on) the edge," abl. of limbus "edge, border"
Interpenise
Created by: GossaMcqueen
Pronunciation: in-ter-penise
Sentence: "Would you please not interpenise your single-sock stealing proclivities while we are enjoying a sensitive sisterhood"; or, "Your interpenisation is here unwelcome, please confine yourself to the fashion media, who always wear paired socks".
Etymology: to insert a penis-like utterance, or concept, into a sophisticated gathering or washing machine, and then remove one sock from each pair
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COMMENTS:
i don't think i have the posting method sussed out \^_^/ - GossaMcqueen, 2013-01-16: 18:15:00
[Edit #2] until i find out how to delete this or to change the "Word" i can only offer this hybrid of the missing sock scenario, and my own word; - GossaMcqueen, 2013-01-16: 18:46:00
my Word is "interpenise", i shall be looking for a break; ty X - GossaMcqueen, 2013-01-16: 18:48:00
i don't like this, all this rethinking and editing and i end up looking stupid ;_; *kwies* - GossaMcqueen, 2013-01-16: 19:03:00
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Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by sipsoccer. Thank you sipsoccer. ~ James
silveryaspen - 2008-01-11: 14:48:00
Your humorous definition brought us all a lot of laughs and a lot of fun words were created. Good one, sipsoccer.
silveryaspen - 2008-01-11: 14:54:00
James ... your cartoon for this daffynition has me roaring with laughter every time I look at it. Can't help wondering if you have a daughter with a boyfriend that inspired it ??? !!! It's a good thing there's no such thing as a cannibal dryer! Yet!
Today's definition was suggested by sipsoccer. Thank you sipsoccer. ~ James
GossaMcqueen - 2013-01-16: 19:14:00
please, i made a mistake and posted wrongly - how do i remove my Word?