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.. what in Dante's Icebox* is a "collie flurf"!?

[*: read Dante's _Inferno_]
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I presume it's some sort of pet nickname?
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csadn wrote:... what in Dante's Icebox* is a "collie flurf"!?
Over in the Under the Lemon Tree forum (for the webcomic Goblin Hollow) is this thread that asks the same question. But the answer seems to be on the NPC forum (for Tales of the Questor):
http://forums.comicgenesis.com/viewtopi ... 30#1285030

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I've been looking around on the Web, and found:

Urban Dictionary: flurf
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=flurf
(Embarassing!)

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I suspect the Urban Dictionary is a bit more urban than correct.

A "flurf" as I understand it is a fluffy hug. like a skritch or a fuzzle.
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Post by Deckard Canine »

From what I've seen, the Urban Dictionary has a higher rate of errors than Wikipedia.
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RHJunior wrote:I suspect the Urban Dictionary is a bit more urban than correct.
No argument there. But it's not mentioned as a word (as opposed to proper name) in Dictionary.com, Wikipedia, WikiFur, etc. If it were a recognized furry term, I'd have exected to see it at least in WikiFur.

Besides, the UD definition was just to unlikely to pass up mentioning! :ick:
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