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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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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
Unravfelt
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: un+rav+felt
Sentence: Despite hours of unravfelting, Marcus, a goth from way back could never work out how the lint in his tumble dryer was always pink.
Etymology: unravel + felt
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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Lintspection
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: lint spek shun
Sentence: When Sarah was studying forensics, she always did a lintspection on her own dryer fluff to determine its origin. She came to the conclusion that those socks that "disappeared" in the dryer, actually became unravelled due to the stress of daily living and their remains ended up in the lint trap. Hosiery hari-kiri, sock suicide...so sad.
Etymology: Lint (dryer fluff;unravelled fibres) & Inspection (a formal or official examination)
Lintuff
Created by: mordecai0123
Pronunciation: (lint-uff)
Sentence: "Honey, when you empty the dryer, please clean the lintuff out of the filter."
Etymology: Lintuff comes from the Greek word 'lytnuf' which simply means 'fabric droppings.'
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.
Linterbreeding
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: lin/tur/breed/ing
Sentence: The linterbreeding that goes on in our dryer is embarassingly lintcestuous.
Etymology: lint + interbreeding
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COMMENTS:
Great! - TJayzz, 2009-02-18: 18:29:00
Funny - mweinmann, 2009-02-19: 08:29:00
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Archefluffogy
Created by: Toaster
Pronunciation: Ark e fluf o ge
Sentence: Sally was curious about what the fluff in the dryer might have once been, so she decided to engage in the enthralling activity of archefluffogy.
Etymology:
Fluffenter
Created by: abrakadeborah
Pronunciation: fluf-in-ter
Sentence: Snilber's pet, Wilbur became a fluffenter with all of the other fuzz bunnies in the lint jungle.
Etymology: Fluff- Inflated or padded material or fuzz. Originally Taken in part from the word "Vent" -An opening permitting the escape of fumes, a liquid, a gas, or steam or lint. Added "Er" and could also mean - Enter-To come or go into and end up getting fluffentered into tiny lint pieces! :)
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by artr. Thank you artr. ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by artr. Thank you artr. ~ James
artipt - 2018-09-01: 11:49:00
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