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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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Fluffshuffle
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: fluff-shuff-l
Sentence: Colette was a former dancer. She loved to put on 'The Hustle' while she vacuumed the floor, and jiggle around the lounge and breaking into a fluffshuffle when she found bits of obstilint.
Etymology: fluff (stuff to be vacuumed) + shuffle (moving backwards and forwards over a small distance)
Vaccillate
Created by: Jamagra
Pronunciation: vaks'/i/late
Sentence: Dylan Dyson, Danbarry Cinema employee, had a difficult time dealing with the dirt and debris on the theater's Dalton carpet. The lint in the lobby had latched on like a limpet to limestone. The threads in the theater had thoroughly thwarted him. In the vestibule the vexed vacuumer decided that hand-feeding the sweeper had lost all its charm, and somebody else could vaccillate all that lint. He assigned the task to a junior associate.
Etymology: vacuum + vacillate
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
Relintroduce
Created by: Tigger
Pronunciation: /ree-LIN-truh-doos/
Sentence: Wanda had run the vacuum cleaner back and forth over the same bit of blue fluff five times now, and she was beginning to get annoyed — both at the lint, for clinging so stubbornly, and at the vacuum, which kept failing to pick it up. For the third time, she bent down and plucked the lint from the carpet. Feeling a little sarcastic this time though, she showed the lint to the vacuum and relintroduced them, saying "Vacuum, meet lint; lint, meet vacuum." As she placed the lint in front of the vacuum, Wanda told it, "Mr. Vaccum's going to take you someplace where lots of other bits of fluff and lint hang out. You go with him, okay?" and tried it once more.
Etymology: Blend of: Reintroduce - to acquaint with, or bring into notice again (from Latin, re- "again" & intrōdūcere "to lead inside") + Lint - clinging bits of fiber and fluff; fuzz (from Middle French, linette "grain of flax")
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COMMENTS:
didn't see this yesterday - great word - bookowl, 2008-04-05: 12:16:00
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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)
Novacuatelint
Created by: scarletzinc
Pronunciation:
Sentence:
Etymology: Not evacuating lint
Hoovermanuever
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: hoo ver man oov er
Sentence: It was a catatonic experience when Miranda did her hoovermaneuver and sucked up half the cat.
Etymology: Hoover (brand of vacuum) & Maneuver (an action aimed at evading an opponent)
Resuckitate
Created by: TimTheEnchanter
Pronunciation: v.: ree-SUK-i-tate n.: ree-SUK-i-tet
Sentence: Tommy kept picking up the little orange pieces and moving them, but no matter how many times he tried the vacuum wouldn't pick up all the resuckitate left on the carpet. By the time he realized the vacuum cleaner wasn't plugged in, the munchies had kicked back in big time so he went back to eating his Cheetos before trying to resuckitate the crumbs again.
Etymology: Re(again) + Suck + Resuscitate
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COMMENTS:
Nice! - purpleartichokes, 2008-04-04: 19:30:00
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Magnetalint
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: mag-NET-eh-lint
Sentence: Valerie loved her new carpeting but hated the way lint would often cling to the shag and defy even her most diligent efforts to vacuum it up and in a moment of angry frustration she labeld the offending fuzz balls as magnetalint for the way they seemed magnetically stuck to the carpet.
Etymology: Blend of magnet and lint
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