Verboticism: Enlintenment
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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Fuzzmunnies
Created by: silveryaspen
Pronunciation: fuzz muh nees
Sentence: Tight wads of paper appear on top of the clothes in the dryer. If we are lucky, those aridonesies are only fuzzyonesies, but all too often, those fuzz bunnies are more costly fuzzmunnies.
Etymology: fuzz, money - paper money turned into tightwads of fuzzy balls in the dryer. Of course, fuzzmunnies is the obvious play on dust bunnies, the slang term for balls of lint and dust.
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COMMENTS:
Darn! Those fuzz bunnies are back briefly again this week! - silveryaspen, 2009-02-18: 01:30:00
How bout some fuzz mummies? - mweinmann, 2009-02-18: 08:25:00
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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)
Eniglint
Created by: SamusMan
Pronunciation:
Sentence: "No, honey. You can still wear that shirt--it's just got some eniglint stuck to it is all."
Etymology: Enigma + Lint
Hampster
Created by: Ismelstar
Pronunciation: [ham-pster]
Sentence: Slogging throught one's laundry was one thing, Hannah decided, but dehampsterfying Andy's dryer was rather like mucking out the stables and required a degree in zoology.
Etymology: Mash up of Hamper, a large basket or other receptacle, usually with a cover as in for clothes and Hamster a short-tailed, stout-bodied, burrowing rodent.
Damfluffagain
Created by: emoorefrombmore
Pronunciation: dam-fluff-again
Sentence: As Sally emptied the dryer, her hand was ingulfed in the damfluffagain.
Etymology:
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)
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)
Fuzzsplotchter
Created by: xxmel
Pronunciation: Fuz-Splah-Ch-Tur
Sentence: Jane was perplexed to see a fuzzsplochter of so many colors and shades alongside her freshly washed sweater.
Etymology: Fuzz - Soft, fluff, consisting of little; Splotch - Blob, ball
Fibercentricks
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: fy bur sen trix
Sentence: It started when George T. Sampson invented the clothes dryer on June 7, 1892. His invention lint itself to, well, lint. Lint had never been manufactured in such large quantities before. This gave the idea to doctors that dryers seem to run better when they had lots of fiber. Perhaps that theory would work for humans, too. Analyzing the end product was the study of fibercentricks. Running trace evidence of dryer fiber gave scientists and criminologists the evidence that both socks had entered the dryer at the same time, but only one came out. Have all these missing socks been turned into piles of fluffy, fiberous lint? Or did Mr. Sampson have a more sinister trick up his sleeve when he made his now famous invention? This would be a hard case to unravel...
Etymology: Fibre (a thread or filament from which a plant or animal tissue, mineral substance, or textile is formed;dietary material containing substances such as cellulose, that are resistant to the action of digestive enzymes) & Cybercentrics (meeting of business ideas with the broadcast opportunutues of cyberspace) & Tricks (an attempt to get you to do something foolish or imprudent)
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COMMENTS:
Nice one! - TJayzz, 2009-02-18: 08:15:00
Your mystery is hilarious! where do those socks go? - splendiction, 2009-02-18: 12:45:00
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Furensics
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: furr ehn ziks
Sentence: His furensic examination of the siemens led him to believe that the bosch had led the detail but there had been a paws before final extermination.
Etymology: forensic fur
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COMMENTS:
puntastic - Jabberwocky, 2009-02-18: 13:19:00
like it! - mweinmann, 2009-02-19: 08:28:00
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