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The fabric's way of slowly mailing itself to your navel and dryer.
means The tiny fuzz of loose fibers that sheds off fabric and collects in pockets, on clothes, or in the dryer trap.
from Lint traces back to Middle English and Old French 'linette,' rooted in 'lin,' meaning flax — because the word originally named the fuzzy fibers combed from flax or linen cloth, long before it became the fluff haunting your dryer filter.
- source
- loose fibers shed from clothing friction
- navel version
- mostly cotton fibers, trapped by belly hair
- trap danger
- dryer lint is a leading cause of fires
- color clue
- usually matches your most-worn shirt color