draftdetective
/ˈdrɑːftˌdɛtɪktɪv/nounVerified NewAlso in: Zugluftdetektiv (Deutsch) · correntective (Español) · courantective (Français)
The winter investigator who follows every cold-spot complaint back to its window.
The draftdetective works by candle-flame, wet wrist, and squint, moving from radiator to skirting board in search of the leak. Findings are delivered with gravity: it is the back door, it was always the back door. The draught excluder is deployed, the case is closed, and the file reopens at the first cold floorboard of the next winter.
Etym. — draft + detective — the private eye hired by the household to hunt cold air.
Rel. — radiatorpolitics · degreedivided
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