Friday, June 4, 2010
mantriti
(n.) A pack of mantritus - small, vicious mammals that haunt the Pampas. These nocturnal beasts are covered in patchy fur, a mix of brown and black patches. They attack by forming pyramids and lashing at the low-slung underbellies of the spoltals with their horny, yellow claws. When formed in an attack pyramid, mantriti look like a cross between a tiny man and a large pile of detritus.
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Alt. Def.: The collective of socks, belts, coins, small pieces of paper spilt on the floor, etc. Resembling things blown off the dresser by the wind, but merely detritus dropped by some man on his way to more important activities.
ReplyDeleteAll Hell hadn't been let loose. It was merely Detritus. But from a few feet away you couldn't tell the difference.
-The 5th Elephant, Terry Pratchett
Companion Word: womantritus: The uncounted piles of papers. books, journals, pictures, cats, crackers, and diet cokes littering every horizontal surface created by some woman unable to file.
ReplyDeleteI had a great quote to go here, but it is buried under womantritus. - The Kidspeak Decades, Teach313, Autobiography, Vol. 3.
... , cats, ...
ReplyDeleteWell you had me nodding in agreement and then you blew it. Also ks left out colored pens, which I'm always glad to see among the mantriti because it means they aren't still in the pocket of a pair of pants that's going to be washed.
The contents of womantritus have never been completely catalogued. (Usually pronounced "wo-tri-tus".)
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