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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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Lintzilla
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: lintzilÉ™
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)
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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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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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
Redysonized
Created by: abrakadeborah
Pronunciation: ree-dye-son-ized
Sentence: Kelly Kitaen redysonized all the pesky fur that didn't want to get sucked up off her white carpet.
Etymology: To vacuum over again with your Dyson vacuum cleaner
Hoovermanuver
Created by: libertybelle
Pronunciation: who-ver-man-ooh-ver
Sentence: Lisa spent ten minutes passing the vacuum over the lint on her rug in a frantic Hoovermanuvere before she realized she was trying to suck up part of the pattern in the carpet.
Etymology: Hoover (brand of Vacuum) + manuver
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COMMENTS:
I tried to use "hoover" in a word, but yours is much better. - metrohumanx, 2008-11-20: 02:40:00
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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)
Worldcupsuccor
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: wirld kup sokkor
Sentence: It was already a year away, but still the agencies vied to carry the games leading up to the big match. World Cup Soccer was like the world's biggest vacuum match or in this case, worldcupsuccor...try your hardest, with all your great equipment and sponsorship, but your chances of winning were split out against each small nation who dared have a team who came back, again and again.
Etymology: World Cup Soccer (The biggest sporting event on the planet, televised every four years.) & Succor (assistance in time of difficulty;help in a difficult situation)& Sucker (a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of; a machine with a big sucker on it, to remove debris)
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COMMENTS:
A new kind of fuzz....err....football. - Mustang, 2009-05-25: 21:03:00
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Hoovermaneuver
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: hoo ver man oo ver
Sentence: Al Capone was one nasty gangster who terrorized Chicago during Prohibition. Despite many arrests by the FBI, he always slithered out of their reach by having even more dishonest lawyers and buying out the police, judges and city officials. The FBI called in the Treasury and under Eliot Ness, Capone was eventually caught on tax evasion and sentenced to life. This hoovermaneuver sucked him out of mainstream, like a piece of lint into a giant canister until he died in prison of syphilis. Here endeth the lesson.
Etymology: Hoover (vacuum cleaner brand;lawyer who director of the FBI for 48 years)
Malintgerer
Created by: bookowl
Pronunciation: mal/int/gur/ur
Sentence: A malintgerer is a stubborn piece of lint which pretends to be ill to prevent being vacuumed up.
Etymology: malingerer + lint
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COMMENTS:
Ha! - purpleartichokes, 2008-04-04: 19:33:00
Ha! Good word. - purpleartichokes, 2008-04-04: 20:08:00
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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