{"id":226,"date":"2007-11-27T01:22:15","date_gmt":"2007-11-27T05:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=226"},"modified":"2007-11-29T01:23:57","modified_gmt":"2007-11-29T05:23:57","slug":"why-do-you-iron-our-sheets-every-night","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=226","title":{"rendered":"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. intr.<\/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?\" height=\"400\" width=\"400\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>VERBOTICISMS:<\/strong> <em>(Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Rumpledsheetskin<\/strong>:  \/<em>rumpled-sheet-skin<\/em>\/ Rumpledsheetskin is a malady that affects nearly everyone I know. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  rumpled + sheet + skin + Rumplestiltskin <em>Created by:<\/em> porsche.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Comments on Rumpledsheetskin:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=purpleartichokes\">purpleartichokes<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2007-11-26: 18:23:00<\/em><br \/>\nGreat word porsche!  Perfectly describes it.<\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=OZZIEBOB\">OZZIEBOB<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2007-11-26: 20:43:00<\/em><br \/>\nDoes indeed. Great word!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Sheetfaced<\/strong>:  \/<em>sheet-fayst<\/em>\/ after a heavy night of celebrating it was no surprise when i woke up sheetfaced <em>Etymology:<\/em>  sheet, face, shitfaced <em>Created by:<\/em> rikboyee.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Comments on Sheetfaced:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=purpleartichokes\">purpleartichokes<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2007-11-26: 04:43:00<\/em><br \/>\nHA!  Love it!<\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=Mustang\">Mustang<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2007-11-26: 06:34:00<\/em><br \/>\nBut of course!!   Good word.<\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=Jabberwocky\">Jabberwocky<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2007-11-26: 13:19:00<\/em><br \/>\nexcellent word<\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=OZZIEBOB\">OZZIEBOB<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2007-11-26: 20:47:00<\/em><br \/>\nBring to mind an old expression &#8211; to go to bed, &#8221; To go down sheet alley into Bedfordshire.&#8221;  Fine word!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Ripvanwrinkle<\/strong>:  \/<em>rip-van-WRING-kuhl<\/em>\/ 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. <em>Etymology:<\/em> Ripvanwrinkle: blend of wrinkle &amp; Rip Van Winkle, an Irving Washington character who slept for 20 years. Phizgrid: Conflation of phiz: slang for face from physiognomy &amp; grid: a network of crossing horizontal and vertical lines. <em>Created by:<\/em> OZZIEBOB.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Comments on Ripvanwrinkle:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=Jabberwocky\">Jabberwocky<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2007-11-26: 13:18:00<\/em><br \/>\ngreat minds and all that &#8211; that was the first word that sprang to my mind &#8211; so many good words today<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Slumburrows<\/strong>:  \/<em>slum-ber-rohs<\/em>\/ Wendy tried to make it look like she&#8217;d been up-and-at-&#8217;em for hours, but the bedvidence of her recently sleeping was clearly written in the slumburrows of her face. <em>Etymology:<\/em>  slumber, burrows <em>Created by:<\/em> purpleartichokes.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Comments on Slumburrows:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=Mustang\">Mustang<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2007-11-26: 07:02:00<\/em><br \/>\nExcellent verboticism!!<\/p>\n<p><strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=OZZIEBOB\">OZZIEBOB<\/a><\/strong>, <em>2007-11-26: 20:50:00<\/em><br \/>\nNice word!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To see more verboticisms for this definition go to:<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=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/\/\">www.verbotomy.com<\/a><br \/>\nthe create-a-word game<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>Definition Comments:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=Verbotomy\">Verbotomy<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; <em>2007-11-26: 00:01:00<\/em><br \/>\nToday&#8217;s definition was suggested by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=remistram\"><strong>remistram<\/strong><\/a>. Thank you remistram! ~ James<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/verbotomist.php?user=Verbotomy\">Verbotomy<\/a><\/strong> &#8211; <em>2007-11-26: 13:35:00<\/em><br \/>\nBy the way, Stevenson0&#8217;s crazy shopping word, &#8220;Dealusional&#8221;, was published in Toronto Star as one of Top the Invented Words of the Week. See: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/\/?p=223\">https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=223.<\/a> Congratulations to Stevenson0 ~ James<\/p><\/blockquote>\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. intr., To wake up and discover that your face matches your wrinkled bed sheets. VERBOTICISMS: (Invented words created by the Verbotomy Writers) Rumpledsheetskin: \/rumpled-sheet-skin\/ Rumpledsheetskin is a malady that affects &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/?p=226\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why do you iron our sheets every night?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,4],"tags":[90,92,93,89,91],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226"}],"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=226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.verbotomy.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}