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DEFINITION: n., The deep red lines and/or furrows, which appear on a person's face after they have slept on wrinkled or creased bed sheets. v., To wake up and discover that your face matches your wrinkled bed sheets.
Verboticisms
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Ripvanwrinkle
Created by: OZZIEBOB
Pronunciation: rip-van-WRING-kuhl
Sentence: After having forty winks which seemed like forty years to her, Roxie was horrified on waking to find her face ripvanwrinkled in a deep red phizgrid.
Etymology: Ripvanwrinkle: blend of wrinkle & Rip Van Winkle, an Irving Washington character who slept for 20 years. Phizgrid: Conflation of phiz: slang for face from physiognomy & grid: a network of crossing horizontal and vertical lines.
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COMMENTS:
great minds and all that - that was the first word that sprang to my mind - so many good words today - Jabberwocky, 2007-11-26: 13:18:00
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Myfaultlines
Created by: bzav1
Pronunciation: my fault lines
Sentence: The wrinkled sheets left myfaultlines all over the left side of my face. It was like an "I can't get no" relief map of the Himilayas. I would need to use a tectonic plate of moisturizer to smooth it out.
Etymology: My + fault lines
Sheetfaced
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: shēt fāst
Sentence: Tony was not given to drinking to excess but tonight was his little sister's wedding and he let it all go. When he finally made it to bed, he hit the pillow face-first with a thud. He went to bed sh*tfaced and woke up sheetfaced. If he looked closely, through those bloodshot eyes, he swore he could read the impression of the "Do not remove this label" tag embedded in his forehead.
Etymology: sheet (a large rectangular piece of cotton or other fabric, used on a bed to cover the mattress and as a layer beneath blankets) + sh*tfaced (drunk or under the influence of drugs)
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COMMENTS:
funny - Jabberwocky, 2008-10-22: 11:49:00
Oh man, that is PERFECTION! - lumina, 2008-10-22: 18:37:00
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Pritters
Created by: glamgal23
Pronunciation: pritt-ers
Sentence: I woke up with pritters on my face from the pillow.
Etymology:
Creasipitation
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: kree-sip-i-tey-shuh n
Sentence: Tonight's forecast; dark with an 80% chance of creasipitation. That's right, those wrinkles are just gonna rain down on your face.
Etymology: crease (a wrinkle, especially one on the face) + precipitation ( rain, snow, sleet, dew, etc, formed by condensation of water vapour in the atmosphere)
Revalley
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: rev-ell-ee
Sentence: Dolores was very depressed having woken with a bad case of revalley. It wasn't quite as bad as when she enjoyed a mid-afternoon nap and woke with craquelaze, but she still felt it was time to throw out the mancreaster and buy some new sheets.
Etymology: reveille (bugle call to wake up military personnel fr. to wake up) + valley (depressions, channels, cracks on the landscape) (craquelure + crackle glaze + laze --> craquelaze) (manchester + crease --> mancreaster)
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COMMENTS:
nice mixture - Jabberwocky, 2007-11-26: 13:23:00
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Rumpledsheetskin
Created by: porsche
Pronunciation: rumpled/sheet/skin
Sentence: Rumpledsheetskin is a malady that affects nearly everyone I know.
Etymology: rumpled + sheet + skin + Rumplestiltskin
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COMMENTS:
Great word porsche! Perfectly describes it. - purpleartichokes, 2007-11-26: 18:23:00
Does indeed. Great word! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-11-26: 20:43:00
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Slumburrows
Created by: purpleartichokes
Pronunciation: slum-ber-rohs
Sentence: Wendy tried to make it look like she'd been up-and-at-'em for hours, but the bedvidence of her recently sleeping was clearly written in the slumburrows of her face.
Etymology: slumber, burrows
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COMMENTS:
Excellent verboticism!! - Mustang, 2007-11-26: 07:02:00
Nice word! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-11-26: 20:50:00
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Wrinkidermis
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: rink/uh/dur/mis
Sentence: It takes at least four, or five hours after I wake up to overcome wrinkidermis embedded on my face and suffered from my creased pillow.
Etymology: WRINKIDERMIS - noun - from WRINKLE (a small furrow, or crease on the face) + EPIDERMIS (the outer layer of the skin)
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COMMENTS:
Technically impeccable...and a little scary. - metrohumanx, 2008-10-23: 17:12:00
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Pillowglyph
Created by: Buzzardbilly
Pronunciation: pillowglyph (pil-ou-glif)
Sentence: When he awakened one side of his face was covered in a pillowglyph that resembled Nazca lines. -OR- She had obviously been sleeping quite heavy as her arms, face, and what part I could see of her legs quite a pillowglyphic display.
Etymology: pillow (a cushion generally used for sleeping) + glyph (shortened from dermatoglyph because "glyph" itself is easily understood as "a symbolic figure carved or incised in relief"; whereas, "dermatoglyph" refers to lines forming on the skin)
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram! ~ James
By the way, Stevenson0's crazy shopping word, "Dealusional", was published in Toronto Star as one of Top the Invented Words of the Week. See: http://www.verbotomy.com/blog/?p=223. Congratulations to Stevenson0 ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by remistram. Thank you remistram. ~ James