Verboticism: Myfaultlines
DEFINITION: n., The deep red lines and/or furrows, which appear on a person's face after they have slept on wrinkled or creased bed sheets. v., To wake up and discover that your face matches your wrinkled bed sheets.
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Discomforter
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: dis kom for ter
Sentence: Each morning since she turned 40, Mary had woken up with a discomforter, not a comforter, with her in bed. The pain was caused by the wrinkle tracts left on her face from her bedding. It took her face an hour to pop out these furrows and Mary was very worried that one day soon, they would stay permanently.
Etymology: Discomfort (an uncomfortable feeling in some part of the body) & Comforter (bedding made of two layers of cloth filled with stuffing and stitched together;quilt;duvet)
Facingstripes
Created by: bbawden
Pronunciation: Fayss-eeng-straips
Sentence: Susanne was tired of her old look, so she was happy the next morning to find freshly applied facingstripes
Etymology: Face- that thing on your head Stripes, vertical or horizontal lines.
Napdoodle
Created by: Tigger
Pronunciation: nap-dōōd'-əl
Sentence: Ellen wondered why her husband had looked doubtful when she claimed she'd been busy cleaning all day -- although in truth, she had just woken up -- until she began wiping down the mirror, and she realized that she'd been marked by a huge napdoodle covering the whole right side of her face, her exaggeration betrayed by the web of creases from the pillow. She'd had a big snoozemap on her face the whole time.
Etymology: nap (Middle English, from nappen - "to doze") + doodle - "a design, or the like, made by idle scribbling" (Origin: 1935–40, Americanism)
Sheetpleated
Created by: artr
Pronunciation: shētplētd
Sentence: Joan had a very difficult time applying makeup to her sheetpleated face this morning. After her skin relaxed, she had more streaks than a ten-year-old windshield wiper.
Etymology: sheet (a large rectangular piece of cotton or other fabric, used on a bed to cover the mattress) + pleated (a double or multiple fold in a garment or other item made of cloth)
Fortywrinks
Created by: hendrixius
Pronunciation: /for-tee-rinks/
Sentence: While catching a nap during her lunch break, Sarah awoke to find carpet related fortywrinks all about her face.
Etymology: "forty-winks" and "wrinkles"
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COMMENTS:
Good word! - OZZIEBOB, 2007-11-26: 20:36:00
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Pritters
Created by: glamgal23
Pronunciation: pritt-ers
Sentence: I woke up with pritters on my face from the pillow.
Etymology:
Revalley
Created by: petaj
Pronunciation: rev-ell-ee
Sentence: Dolores was very depressed having woken with a bad case of revalley. It wasn't quite as bad as when she enjoyed a mid-afternoon nap and woke with craquelaze, but she still felt it was time to throw out the mancreaster and buy some new sheets.
Etymology: reveille (bugle call to wake up military personnel fr. to wake up) + valley (depressions, channels, cracks on the landscape) (craquelure + crackle glaze + laze --> craquelaze) (manchester + crease --> mancreaster)
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COMMENTS:
nice mixture - Jabberwocky, 2007-11-26: 13:23:00
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Stredtch
Created by: vmalcolm
Pronunciation: /stredtʃ/
Sentence: I'm sick of my unseen stretch marks, I don't want to bear with some visible and RED ones too!
Etymology: STREDTCH. From Stretch mark (A shiny line on the skin of the abdomen, breasts, thighs, or buttocks that is often lighter than the surrounding skin and is caused by the stretching and weakening of elastic tissues as a result of pregnancy or obesity, for example) + Red (A pigment or dye having a red hue)
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COMMENTS:
Stredtch marks are rediculous without getting them from your laundry! - Nosila, 2008-10-22: 21:43:00
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Lininjury
Created by: Mustang
Pronunciation: lin-IN-jery
Sentence: In spite of her concerted efforts to avoid the condition, Sheila continued to wake up every morning with a moderately severe lininjury from having slept with her face buried in the wrinkled sheets.
Etymology: Blend of 'linen' and 'injury'.
Rumpledsheetskin
Created by: Nosila
Pronunciation: rum peld sheet skin
Sentence: If Betty did not iron Barney's bedsheets each night and slip him a sleeping potion to allow him a calm night's sleep, he's wake up looking like a rumpledsheetskin.
Etymology: Rumplestiltskin (Grimm Bros fairy tale character, an imp who makes a deal to have a young girl spin straw into gold...he did not live happily ever after) & Rumpled (wrinkled) Sheet (bedsheet) & Skin Wordplay.