furpile

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English

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Etymology

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From fur (clipping of furry, noun) +‎ pile.

Noun

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furpile (plural furpiles)

  1. (furry fandom slang) A group session of furries hugging and cuddling or lying on top of one another.
    Hypernym: cuddle puddle
    • 1997 September 7, JDupont378, “Group Hug”, in alt.lifestyle.furry[1] (Usenet):
      Any fur that is part of this furpile and has any resemblence to me is just that explosive Buster Decoy I used to trick certain mustelids who should know better than to try to trick a ferret because ferrets like Buster expects the unexpetced unexpetced.
    • 2003 November 2, Wanderer, “CSI”, in alt.fan.furry[2], Google Groups:
      It can be used in reference to a group on an overloaded piece of furniture ("Just crash in the furpile on the couch."), a bunch of furs on the floor ("The furpile? They're playing Trivial Pursuit."), or any other group of horizontal furries.
    • 2008, Tim Fountain, Rude Britannia: One Man's Journey Around the Highways and Bi-ways of British Sex, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, →ISBN, page 162:
      Is this where my Mr Benn adventure begins? Am I being led to a furpile? He leads me up some laminated stairs, which are not the easiest things to climb in a furry tigersuit.
    • 2015 May 18, Ouiji314, Twitter[3]:
      A rare photo taken from ground zero of a furpile o.o
    • 2021 August 27, u/Justsomedinosaur_, “What happened to fur piles at furry conventions? I haven't seen anything about them in a while.”, in r/furry, Reddit:
      I havent seen too much about them in a while so I was just wondering if something happened that made furpiles stop happening at cons. They look fun and I kinda want to try one someday.

Verb

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furpile (third-person singular simple present furpiles, present participle furpiling, simple past and past participle furpiled)

  1. (furry fandom slang) To furpile.
    • 2003 November 11, G. Raymond Eddy, “CSI: Denial in action”, in alt.fan.furry[4], Google Groups:
      So long as everybody involved in yiffing is a consenting adult human, states have no right to stop it. State legislators, no matter how many phones they have ringing off the hook about this new furpiling evil, are not likely to make laws against it that are only going to be struck down in court.

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