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DEFINITION: v. To pick up a piece of lint from the floor that your vacuum missed, and then drop it in front of the vacuum again, to give the vacuum another chance to suck it up. n. A piece of lint that a vacuum will not pick up.
Verboticisms
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Superfluffluent
Created by: arrrteest
Pronunciation: soo-per-fluff-floo-ent
Sentence: Desmond liked clean floors. He was constantly sweeping and vacuuming his apartment to an obsession. You would be hard pressed to find any dust bunnies under any furniture or his bed. That is, until his girlfriend recently moved in with her long-haired torti, Fluffhead. Now Fluffhead is a sociable cat who likes to rub up against you or jump up and nestle in your lap, leaving patches of fur that drives Desmond bonkers. Fluffy left a trail of her superfluffluent everywhere, which seemed not to be affected by the vacuum cleaner. Any guesses as to how long this relationship will last?
Etymology: super, from superfluous + fluff + effluent, as in waste
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COMMENTS:
Great word! It's fun to say...over and over. LOL - Mustang, 2008-04-04: 04:57:00
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Ifatfirstyoudontsuckseed
Created by: galwaywegian
Pronunciation: iff aht furst ewe dohnt suk seeeeeed
Sentence: ifatfirstyoudontsuckseed, purrsevere
Etymology: if at first you don'r succeed, suck
Vacuumulate
Created by: milorush
Pronunciation: (tr.v.)vāk'yōōm-yə-lāt'; (n.) vāk'yōōm-yə-lā'shən
Sentence: Due to the poor quality of her ancient Eureka, it has become necessary for mom to repeatedly vacuumulate extraneous bits of fluff left behind by her cats.
Etymology: vacuum + [accum]ulation
Dustcusser
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: duhst-kuhs-er
Sentence: Denise is an animal lover but she has absolutely no sympathy for dust bunnies. She likes nothing better than the whoomp sound of a clump of lint going up the hose of her vacuum. Nothing turns her into a dustcusser faster than a clump of fuzz that clings to the floor, refusing to succumb to the Hoover.
Etymology: dustbuster (a handheld cordless vacuum cleaner) + cusser (someone who swears; curses)
Magnetalint
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: Mag - NET - uh - lint
Sentence: Having made repeated passes with the vacuum over the ball of lint only to have it remain attached to the carpet as if by some unseen force, Genevieve gave it the title of magnetalint.
Etymology: Blend of magnetic and lint
Crumbudgeon
Created by: hyperborean
Pronunciation: cruhm-uh-jihn
Sentence: She didn't spend $400.00 on a vacum cleaner and expect to have to bend over and feed it every crumbudgeon.
Etymology: crumb (a small fragment [esp. of bread]) + curmudgeon (a crusty, ill-tempered and usu. old man)
Flufferhugger
Created by: Jabberwocky
Pronunciation: fluff/ur/hug/ur
Sentence: I gave up vacuuming and threw out all the carpets just to be free of the flufferhuggers. Now I have a warren of dust bunnies to contend with.
Etymology: fluff + hug + fluffernutter ( a peanut butter marshmallow combination)
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COMMENTS:
Cute! - purpleartichokes, 2008-04-04: 06:41:00
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Resuckle
Created by: mweinmann
Pronunciation: ree - suk - l
Sentence: Gloria decided to resuckle the pieces of newspaper and lint that her gerbils had torn up. No matter how many times she kept sucking up the same debris, it kept coming back out for another round.
Etymology: recycle + suck
Lintzilla
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: lintzilə
Sentence: Linda knew she was in trouble when she first saw it lurking beneath the sofa. It had apparently resisted previous attempts at extracation. She wasn't sure even her new cyclone vacuum was any match for this dust bunny from Hades, this Lintzilla. She was right. The best she could accomplish was to get the vacuum to choke on a small snippet. To vanquish this villian she had to resort to the ultimate weapon, The Hand!
Etymology: lint (Fuzzy fluff that accumulates on various fabrics) + Godzilla (huge prehistoric monster featured in a series of Japanese films)
Comments:
Today's definition was suggested by doseydotes. Thank you doseydotes. ~ James
stache - 2008-04-04: 06:52:00
recapitulint
stache - 2008-04-04: 07:08:00
(oops. it's early here.)
Jamagra - 2008-04-04: 08:22:00
I think this one was an actual Sniglet back in the day... can't remember the word, though. :)
Hey Jamagra, I think that sniglet was "carpetuation", which very good because it does seem to take long time to vacuum up a cat. ~ James
Today's definition was suggested by doseydotes. Thank you doseydotes. ~ James