[Dixonary] Round 2494 - QUODLIN - Time to vote

[Tim B]

Vote for TWO definitions, as a public forum message (in reply to this one), before the deadline,
which is 10 pm GMT (=UTC) on Thursday 27th March, and corresponding times in other time zones.
Slightly less than the recommended time, I'm afraid, but it's then or nearly a day later.

New players are welcome, even if you didn't enter a definition this round. Don't look in a
dictionary. Full rules, if you're curious, are at www.dixonary.net.

1: a gilt crown.

2: a cooking apple.

3: an unanswerable question.

4: [obs.] the female pudenda

5: excessively mundane, trivial.

6: [obs.] out of the ordinary; mysterious.

7: an elongated hill or ridge of glacial drift.

8: [Oxford Latin] similar to, of the same sort.

9: a plant pathogenic fungus, also known as cottony rot.

10: instrument by which a gem is adjusted while being cut.

11: a rapid sketch intended as the basis for a later finished painting.

12: relating to an American Indian tribe of Connecticut, also known as the Pequot.

13: [obs.] a filler word for something whose name has been forgotten or is unknown.

14: a single-cut file for smoothing; a tool used by shoemakers for rasping off pegs inside a shoe.

15: a piece of spacing material used in hand-set metal typesetting which is one em in height and
3/4-em in width.

16: a metal ring (freq. of silver with the owner's name engraved on it) attached to the end of a
hawk's jess and serving to connect this with the leash.

17: a large, light yellow, slightly pointed cooking apple; later synonymous with the hot roasted
apples sold on the streets of London in the early nineteenth century: this latter meaning now obs.

Best wishes,
Tim Bourne.

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[Paul Keating]

I vote for 2, and its Barrsesque companion, 17.

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The Hague

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[Judy Madnick]

I'll fall for these similar definitions for lack of a better idea -- but I must admit that the "crown" definition is tempting, after all the "crown" messages during this round. :-)

2: a cooking apple.

17: a large, light yellow, slightly pointed cooking apple; later synonymous with the hot roasted
apples sold on the streets of London in the early nineteenth century: this latter meaning now obs.

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[Johnb - co.uk]

I'll go for the apples please

#2 and #17
*
JohnnyB*

> 2: a cooking apple.
>
>
> 17: a large, light yellow, slightly pointed cooking apple; later
> synonymous with the hot roasted apples sold on the streets of London
> in the early nineteenth century: this latter meaning now obs.
>

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[Tim Lodge]

I'll try the sketch and the spacer, 11 and 15, please:

11: a rapid sketch intended as the basis for a later finished painting.

15: a piece of spacing material used in hand-set metal typesetting which
is one em in height and 3/4-em in width.

-- Tim L

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[Jim Hart]

That's about 35 hours by my reckoning which seems like plenty. IIRC 24-36
hours is recommended, not that I've read the rules for a while.

I'll vote tomorrow.

Jim


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[Steve Graham]

An apple a day ... or more.

I'll go for 2 and 17 as well.

Steve Graham
The first task of an editor is to save the writer from him- or herself, no
matter how painful the process.

2: a cooking apple.

17: a large, light yellow, slightly pointed cooking apple; later synonymous
with the hot roasted apples sold on the streets of London in the early
nineteenth century: this latter meaning now obs.

..

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[France International/Mike Shefler]

I'm going to go with the crowd this time and vote for 2 and 17. Maybe it
will be unanimous!

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[Guerri Stevens]

I vote for 5 and 6.

Guerri

On 3/26/2014 7:05 AM, Tim B wrote:
>
> 5: excessively mundane, trivial.
>
> 6: [obs.] out of the ordinary; mysterious.
>

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[Efrem Mallach]

I'll defy vox populi and go with the fillers: 13 and 15.

Efrem

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
On Mar 26, 2014, at 7:05 AM, Tim B <dixonary (AT) siam (DOT) co.uk> wrote:

> Vote for TWO definitions, as a public forum message (in reply to this one), before the deadline, which is 10 pm GMT (=UTC) on Thursday 27th March, and corresponding times in other time zones. Slightly less than the recommended time, I'm afraid, but it's then or nearly a day later.
>
> New players are welcome, even if you didn't enter a definition this round. Don't look in a dictionary. Full rules, if you're curious, are at www.dixonary.net.
>
> 13: [obs.] a filler word for something whose name has been forgotten or is unknown.
>
> 15: a piece of spacing material used in hand-set metal typesetting which is one em in height and 3/4-em in width.
>
> Best wishes,
> Tim Bourne.

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[EnDash@aol.com]

Just to show that I've read all the way down, I'll take the last two,
numbers 16 and 17.


16: a metal ring (freq. of silver with the owner's name engraved on it)
attached to the end of a
hawk's jess and serving to connect this with the leash.

17: a large, light yellow, slightly pointed cooking apple; later
synonymous with the hot roasted
apples sold on the streets of London in the early nineteenth century:
this latter meaning now obs.




-- Dick Weltz


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[Dave Cunningham]

per being combinable -- 2 and 17

Dave

On Wednesday, March 26, 2014 7:05:47 AM UTC-4, Tim B wrote:

> Vote for TWO definitions, as a public forum message (in reply to this
> one), before the deadline,
> which is 10 pm GMT (=UTC) on Thursday 27th March, and corresponding times
> in other time zones.
> Slightly less than the recommended time, I'm afraid, but it's then or
> nearly a day later.
>
> New players are welcome, even if you didn't enter a definition this round.
> Don't look in a
> dictionary. Full rules, if you're curious, are at www.dixonary.net.
>
> 1: a gilt crown.
>
> 2: a cooking apple.
>
> 3: an unanswerable question.
>
> 4: [obs.] the female pudenda
>
> 5: excessively mundane, trivial.
>
> 6: [obs.] out of the ordinary; mysterious.
>
> 7: an elongated hill or ridge of glacial drift.
>
> 8: [Oxford Latin] similar to, of the same sort.
>
> 9: a plant pathogenic fungus, also known as cottony rot.
>
> 10: instrument by which a gem is adjusted while being cut.
>
> 11: a rapid sketch intended as the basis for a later finished painting.
>
> 12: relating to an American Indian tribe of Connecticut, also known as the
> Pequot.
>
> 13: [obs.] a filler word for something whose name has been forgotten or is
> unknown.
>
> 14: a single-cut file for smoothing; a tool used by shoemakers for rasping
> off pegs inside a shoe.
>
> 15: a piece of spacing material used in hand-set metal typesetting which
> is one em in height and
> 3/4-em in width.
>
> 16: a metal ring (freq. of silver with the owner's name engraved on it)
> attached to the end of a
> hawk's jess and serving to connect this with the leash.
>
> 17: a large, light yellow, slightly pointed cooking apple; later
> synonymous with the hot roasted
> apples sold on the streets of London in the early nineteenth century:
> this latter meaning now obs.
>
> Best wishes,
> Tim Bourne.
>

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[--Keith Hale--]

Although the similar apples are tempting, i recall that going rather
badly for at least one Brothers Grimm protagonista ... so i shall
instead opt for numbers 6 & 10.
Thanks in awfulness,
-Keith-

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[Christopher Carson]

As tempting as the overwhelming vox pop is, I'm going with the 5s.

5 and 15

Chris

Sent from my iPhone

> On Mar 26, 2014, at 7:05 AM, "Tim B" <dixonary (AT) siam (DOT) co.uk> wrote:
>
> Vote for TWO definitions, as a public forum message (in reply to this one), before the deadline, which is 10 pm GMT (=UTC) on Thursday 27th March, and corresponding times in other time zones. Slightly less than the recommended time, I'm afraid, but it's then or nearly a day later.
>
> New players are welcome, even if you didn't enter a definition this round. Don't look in a dictionary. Full rules, if you're curious, are at www.dixonary.net.
>
> 1: a gilt crown.
>
> 2: a cooking apple.
>
> 3: an unanswerable question.
>
> 4: [obs.] the female pudenda
>
> 5: excessively mundane, trivial.
>
> 6: [obs.] out of the ordinary; mysterious.
>
> 7: an elongated hill or ridge of glacial drift.
>
> 8: [Oxford Latin] similar to, of the same sort.
>
> 9: a plant pathogenic fungus, also known as cottony rot.
>
> 10: instrument by which a gem is adjusted while being cut.
>
> 11: a rapid sketch intended as the basis for a later finished painting.
>
> 12: relating to an American Indian tribe of Connecticut, also known as the Pequot.
>
> 13: [obs.] a filler word for something whose name has been forgotten or is unknown.
>
> 14: a single-cut file for smoothing; a tool used by shoemakers for rasping off pegs inside a shoe.
>
> 15: a piece of spacing material used in hand-set metal typesetting which is one em in height and 3/4-em in width.
>
> 16: a metal ring (freq. of silver with the owner's name engraved on it) attached to the end of a hawk's jess and serving to connect this with the leash.
>
> 17: a large, light yellow, slightly pointed cooking apple; later synonymous with the hot roasted apples sold on the streets of London in the early nineteenth century: this latter meaning now obs.
>
> Best wishes,
> Tim Bourne.
>
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[Dodi Schultz]

Much as I hate to go along with the crowd, I can't imagine why those two
defs weren't combined, except that some dealers hesitate to merge the true
def with a fake one. And these are the same, the only difference being in
the details.

So I, too, will pick the cooking apples, #2 and #17.

Either there's going to be one huge winner and one very high D score, or
two players who happened to be thinking alike are duking it out for dealer.
But we'll have to wait another 24 hours to find out.

--Dodi



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[Daniel Widdis]

2 because despite being general, it would have been combined with 17 had
it not been the real one, and 17 because that person is the next dealer
and deserves a record score.

(Or vice versa, possibly.)

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[Tony Abell]

I'll take 4 and 13, not because they're likely, but because I like them:


> 4: [obs.] the female pudenda

> 13: [obs.] a filler word for something whose name has been forgotten or is unknown.

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[Millie Morgan]

I choose #2 (to even up the score)
and #15 (because it sounds like a possibility)

> 2: a cooking apple.
> 15: a piece of spacing material used in hand-set metal typesetting which
> is one em in height and 3/4-em in width.



Best wishes,
Millie

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[Jim Hart]

I'm so disappointed with the lack of imagination shown by my fellow
dixonisers. Never before have I seen such herdish behaviour. As our
resident statisticiam Mike ("Stamps") Shefler will attest, at odd times one
def has scored unusually well - by which I mean say 8 or above - either
because it was so very plausible or because it was so bizarrely amusingly
blatantly implausible. But never before do I recall a double vox pop like
this. If vp is right then someone - and you know who you are - is already
destined to be dealing the next round while a record Dx goes to Tim B and 2
points for almost everyone else. But perhaps - just maybe - two lucky
players will be fighting to the death while Tim revels in his D0 and most
of us are out for a duck.

So which will I be - am I nothing but another lemming heading for the cliff
of ignominy, or am I an independent free-thinking responsible adult human?
Am I swayed by that old chestnut theory that two combinable defs is a sign?
Is it relevant that when the word went up I initially thought not of apples
but of apple diseases?

I'm opening the envelope and <drumroll> yes! It's the lemmings again - 2 &
17

I just had to be part of Dixhistory.

Jim



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[Judy Madnick]

I'm sure glad I voted early, which means I'm not part of the "herd." Gee, does that make me a leader? :-)

Sent from my iPod

On Mar 27, 2014, at 7:06 AM, Jim Hart <jfshart (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:

> I'm so disappointed with the lack of imagination shown by my fellow dixonisers. Never before have I seen such herdish behaviour.


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