furpile en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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Etymology
From fur (“clipping of furry”, noun) + pile.
Meanings
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(slang) A group session of furries hugging and cuddling or lying on top of one another.
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.
2003 November 2, Wanderer, “CSI”, in alt.fan.furry, Google Groups: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.
2008, Tim Fountain, Rude Britannia: One Man's Journey Around the Highways and Bi-ways of British Sex, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, →ISBN, page 162:Any fur that is part of this furpile and has any resemblence^([sic]) 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.
1997 September 7, JDupont378, “Group Hug”, in alt.lifestyle.furry (Usenet):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.
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:A rare photo taken from ground zero of a furpile o.o
2015 May 18, Ouiji314, Twitter:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| furpiles | Number=Plur | lexicographic |