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.
VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)
Fiberspace: /fy ber spays/ 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) Created by: Nosila.
Lintpearls: /lintpərlz/ Amongst her skills as a mother Sandy now claims archeologist. When she does the laundry, she will occasionally miss some piece of paper that was stuffed in one of her kid’s pockets. She then has to carefully dissect the resulting lintpearls to discover what note or notice she missed. Just last week she used her tweezers and Xacto to reconstruct a teacher/parent conference appointment. Etymology: lint (short, fine fibers that separate from the surface of cloth or yarn during processing) + pearls (a hard, lustrous spherical mass, typically white or bluish-gray, formed within the shell of a pearl oyster or other bivalve mollusk and highly prized as a gem) Created by: artr.
Scantymatter: /skan tee matt urr/ Having examined the relationship between the increase in the substance and the increased flimsiness of her undergarments, she concluded that for the most part it was scantymatter Etymology: antimatter, scanty Created by: galwaywegian.
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