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, John Bristol Speer, “Novus Ordo Fandorum”, in Fancestral Voices, page 190:

     Of them who have not breathed corflu, never was one knighted to St. Fanthony.

   • 1983, Cathy Ball, “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.

References

• Jeff Prucher, editor (2007), “corflu”, in Brave New Words: The Oxford Dictionary of Science Fiction, Oxford, Oxfordshire, New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, pages 27–28.