{"id":1617,"date":"2013-01-10T12:04:35","date_gmt":"2013-01-10T17:04:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1617"},"modified":"2013-01-10T12:04:35","modified_gmt":"2013-01-10T17:04:35","slug":"rumpledsheetskin-why-do-you-iron-our-sheets-every-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1617","title":{"rendered":"Rumpledsheetskin: Why do you iron our sheets every night?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DEFINITION:<\/strong> <em>n.<\/em>, The deep red lines and\/or furrows, which appear on a person&#8217;s face after they have slept on wrinkled or creased bed sheets. <em>v.<\/em>, To wake up and discover that your face matches your wrinkled bed sheets.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/jimage400\/wrinkles.gif\" alt=\"Why do you iron our sheets every night?\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>VERBOTICISMS:<\/strong> <em>(Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rumpledsheetskin<\/strong>:  \/<em>rum peld sheet skin<\/em>\/ If Betty did not iron Barney&#8217;s bedsheets each night and slip him a sleeping potion to allow him a calm night&#8217;s sleep, he&#8217;s wake up looking like a rumpledsheetskin. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Rumplestiltskin (Grimm Bros fairy tale character, an imp who makes a deal to have a young girl spin straw into gold&#8230;he did not live happily ever after) &amp; Rumpled (wrinkled) Sheet (bedsheet) &amp; Skin Wordplay.  <em>Created by:<\/em> Nosila.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Creasipitation<\/strong>:  \/<em>kree-sip-i-tey-shuh\u00e2\u20ac\u2030n<\/em>\/ Tonight&#8217;s forecast; dark with an 80% chance of creasipitation. That&#8217;s right, those wrinkles are just gonna rain down on your face.  <em>Etymology:<\/em>  crease (a wrinkle, especially one on the face) + precipitation ( rain, snow, sleet, dew, etc, formed by condensation of water vapour in the atmosphere) <em>Created by:<\/em> artr.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lininjury<\/strong>:  \/<em>lin-IN-jery<\/em>\/ In spite of her concerted efforts to avoid the condition, Sheila continued to wake up every morning with a moderately severe lininjury from having slept with her face buried in the wrinkled sheets. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  Blend of &#8216;linen&#8217; and &#8216;injury&#8217;. <em>Created by:<\/em> Mustang.<\/p>\n<p>To see more verboticisms for this definition go to:<br \/> <br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=wrinkles\">https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verboticisms.php?jid=wrinkles<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Be Creative, <\/p>\n<p>James<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\">www.verbotomy.com<\/a><br \/>\nthe create-a-word game<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DEFINITION: n., The deep red lines and\/or furrows, which appear on a person&#8217;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: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers) Rumpledsheetskin: \/rum peld sheet skin\/ If Betty did not &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=1617\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rumpledsheetskin: Why do you iron our sheets every night?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[90,83,82,93,84,89,27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1617\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}