Entry: greebles (n.)
In context: "Joelle scrubbed at the discolored square of fingerprints around the light-switch until the wet Kleenex disintegrated into greebles."
Definition: Neologism. From our very own DFW:
"Greebles had been her own mother's word for the little bits of sleepy goo you got in your eyes' corners. Her own personal Daddy had called them 'eye-boogers' and used to get them out for her with the twisted corner of his hankie."
Other: I had never really made the connection between disintegrate and integrate until this very moment. Better late than never, I suppose.
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Page: 738
Source: Infinite Jest
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