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corflu

noun

Etymology

Blend of correction + fluid, or clipping of correction fluid.

  1. derived from *bʰleh₁-✻ — “to swell; surge; overflow; run”
  2. derived from fluō — “to flow”
  3. derived from fluidus — “flowing; fluid”
  4. inherited from fluid
  5. compounded as corflu — “correction + fluid”

Definitions

  1. Opaque fluid used to mask textual errors, especially on mimeograph stencils or…

    Opaque fluid used to mask textual errors, especially on mimeograph stencils or typewritten pages of fanzines.

    • Of them who have not breathed corflu, never was one knighted to St. Fanthony.
    • She could smell a faint aroma of machine oil and corflu emanating from the man cradling her worn (but not worn enough) form.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for corflu. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA