You might refer to those soft rolls of dust that collect under your bed as dust bunnies, dust kitties, or woolies, but in the Deep South they’re sometimes called house moss. This is part of a complete episode.
Transcript of “House Moss”
Grant, what do you call the soft rolls of dust that collect on the floor under the bed?
Dust bunnies.
I do too.
Yeah.
I thought everybody called it that.
No?
But no.
Oh, I knew there were other ones.
I didn’t realize that there were so many other versions of that.
Like what?
Like dust kitties and dust kittens.
And in Alabama particularly, I’ve never heard the term house moss.
House moss.
Yeah.
M-O-S-S.
Oh, nice.
That’s good, though.
I like it.
Because it accumulates in this unknown way.
Like, you don’t see moss growing.
There’s no, like, budding and flowering, right?
It’s just, like, there.
Right.
Like, one day, it’s just there.
And then you look under the bed, you’re like, what is this?
How did this get here?
I didn’t put this here.
Yeah, exactly.
What do you call those things under the bed?
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