corflu

English

Etymology

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

Noun

corflu (uncountable)

  1. (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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