I can't ignore this any longer.

[Rosa1211]

It started with floor-drobe, continued on to chair-drobe, accelerating quickly to bed-drobe. I'm sorry but I just can't ignore the brassy newcomer: bra-drobe. As in, " I've recently been sorting through my bra-drobe ". What I'm struggling with is this: why are people putting the letter d in there after the hyphen? Surely the word wardrobe contains two words, ward and robe and if you're going to use your own word in place of ward then the second word robe, should in no way have a stray "d" pushed in before it. Has anyone else noticed this or do I have far too much spare time on my hands?

No can’t agree, floor-robe won’t make sense to me in place of wardrobe imo. It doesn’t make the same sound and therefore doesn’t envoke the same meaning.
Literally never heard anyone say bra-drobe.

Strictly speaking we’d be talking about ward-bras, surely?

Maybe a chair-robe. Floor-robe. One part of wardrobe does the keeping- ward, the other part specifies what’s kept- robes.

One phrase talks about the item of clothing, the others talk about the places the clothes are kept.

Oh wait! Surely an excellent opportunity to mention the portmanteau!

Well floor-drobe makes sense because floor rhymes with war. And then the other versions are piggybacking off floor-drobe, not coming directly from wardrobe.

I can’t work out what a bra-drobe even is. Following the logic of floor-, chair-, and bed-robes, is it a massive bra that you pile clothes on?

😂

I have an awful lot of books on my bed. What is that called? Bedshelf?

I love how this is approaching silly territory.

Oh no it’s a book bed silly.

I’m serious!
WTF is a bra-drobe?

“Daughter of Eve from the far land of Spare Oom, where eternal summer reigns around the bright city of War Drobe…”

Blame CS Lewis. Well, not really his fault, but he demonstrated how people hear the word. It may be a ward/robe, but it sounds like a war/drobe.

So a floor-drobe makes sense in that it follows the apparent pattern, whereas a floor-robe would be something entirely different. A small child in their mum’s kimono could be wearing a ‘floor-robe’.

But a bra-drobe? Nope. Who could fit two pairs of jeans, three jumpers, a pile of folded laundry, and yesterday’s underwear into a pair of 36Fs? Unless she means a wardrobe dedicated purely to bras? That would be colloquially reasonable.

Book-bed it is! Thanks.

Shouldn't it be wardbra not bradrobe?

Is a bra-drobe just a drawer then?

I know I am missing the point, but this is not a term I have heard as yet.

Ah, but then is it a drawers drawer for your nether garments?

That was the first image that came to my mind too! 😄

I’m still no closer to knowing what a bra-drobe is…

Never come across it but I suspect a bra-drobe is a random uncontained shit heap of bras. 😂

In my house the children were and are simply told to put the clothes away. Therefore nothing became a 'drobe anything. The mere concept irritates me far more than the silly word. Don't let it happen in the first place, then no need for the pesky word.

I'm a 70 year old adult woman who still can't keep a handle on stuff like clothes.
Will you come and parent me please and knock me into shape? 😂

I have recently had to be quite diligent about picking clothes up as my cat has taken to showing his displeasure at having to move house and now having builders in by pissing on anything fabric that is left on the floor. 😬