Verboticism: Fibercentricks
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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Fluffstuff
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: fluff - stuff
Sentence: Josh was still scarred by the memory of Charlie and how he turned up missing the summer Josh was 7. After looking for his pet rabbit everywhere for 4 days and going through the anguish of knowing he might be "out there somewhere" to be eaten by coyotes; Josh learned that he had been turned into a pile of fluffstuff by his mom's dryer.
Etymology: Fluff + Stuff >> Fluff (Anything light, soft or fuzzy, especially fur, hair, feathers) Stuff (material: the tangible substance that goes into the makeup of a physical object;Stuff is a course cloth, sometimes made with a linen warp and worsted weft)
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)
Enlintenment
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)
Godfluffsaken
Created by: Stevenson0
Pronunciation: god/fluff/sa/kən
Sentence: The godfluffsaken fibres of harshly tossed, spun, dried clothes are the only remnants of clean clothes.
Etymology: GODFLUFFSAKEN - from - FLUFF (light, downy particles) + GODFORSAKEN (deserted; neglected)
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
Fibreobjects
Created by: scrabbelicious
Pronunciation: ˈfʌɪ:bə:ˈɒbd:ʒɪkts
Sentence: Sloppy Joe's belly button was a subject of endless examination. When it came to cleaning the filter of his washing machine, he knew exactly what to do, there goes the weekend, he was overcome with fibreobjects. Call my fluff, that's a word baby.
Etymology: Entangling of 1 -)Fibre: Being made of strands. 2 -)Objects: Is supposed to be opposed but is really something. When said altogether not very obviously a pun on "fiber optics" - the means by which a cyborg is able to see. Part of a device used to make an image by transmission of light.
Fiberspace
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: fy ber spays
Sentence: Fyberspace is that mysterious area where some socks go to unravel, while their mates disappear into the dryer vortex. All the effluvium of the dryer compresses itself into fyberspace and waits in the lint trap until it overflows and can jump out and run free on the laundry floor. It ultimately is the laundry lint limbo, the precursor of the washday blues and a reason to sneeze twenty times.
Etymology: Fiber (a material made by compressing layers of paper or cloth) & Space(the unlimited expanse in which everything is located;an area reserved for some particular purpose) & Play on Cyberspace(computer network)
