corflu
English
Etymology
Blend of correction + fluid, or clipping of correction fluid.
Noun
corflu (uncountable)
- (dated, fandom slang) Opaque fluid used to mask textual errors, especially on mimeograph stencils or typewritten pages of fanzines.
- 1960, Speer, John Bristol, “Novus Ordo Fandorum”, in Fancestral Voices, page 190:
- Of them who have not breathed corflu, never was one knighted to St. Fanthony.
- 1983, Ball, Cathy, “Love's Prurient Interest”, in Bug-Eyed Monsters and Bimbos, published 2011, →ISBN, page 159:
- She could smell a faint aroma of machine oil and corflu emanating from the man cradling her worn (but not worn enough) form.
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References
- “corflu” in Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction, Oxford University Press, 2007, →ISBN, pages 27–28.
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