[Dixonary] Round 2556 QUAGSWAGGING Defs - Vote Now

[Tim Lodge]

Here are 16 defs of the word QUAGSWAGGING. 15 of them are the product of
your fevered imaginations, and one of them is the true definition from my
dictionary. Please vote for your two favourites by public reply to this
message before the deadline of:

21:00 UTC on Monday3rd November in my time zone, which is:
22:00 CET
4:00 PM EST
1:00 PM PST
10:00 AEST in Melbourne
12:00 NZDT in New Zealand

-- Tim L

*** QUAGSWAGGING ***

1. gossip.

2. clam digging.

3. growing in dry places.

4. _Obs. rare._ the action of shaking to and fro.

5. walking through deep mud on purpose made stilts.

6. _Slang_ the act of ensnaring; a catching or entrapping.

7. _Australia sl._ excellent, outstanding (esp. of food).

8. (sl.) trekking through the Outback with excessive baggage.

9. a window treatment similar to a valance but with long sides.

10. to produce, distribute, or sell without permission or illegally.

11. exaggeration or intentional misinterpretation, usu. for comical
effect.

12. to treat with bitter, pert, or tart language; to be impudent or
saucy to.

13. a courtship ritual of the emperor penguin, involving deep bowing,
and clacking of beaks.

14. dancing lights over bogs, swamps or marshy places [_ignis fatuus_
see also will-o'-the-wisp, jack-o-lantern, hinkypunky]

15. a kind of border detail, often incorporating fan-like images,
characteristic of breakfronts, escritoires, etc. of the immediate
pre-Victorian era.

16. an event formerly held in some Scottish towns to commemorate the
flight of Charles Edward Stuart (known as Bonnie Prince Charlie) from
Scotland; marked with pipers, bonfires etc.



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[Tim B]

1 and 5, please.

Best wishes,
Tim Bourne.

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[Dave Cunningham]

6 and 8 today ... no great reasons


Dave


On Sunday, November 2, 2014 6:30:22 AM UTC-5, Tim Lodge wrote:

> Here are 16 defs of the word QUAGSWAGGING. 15 of them are the product of
> your fevered imaginations, and one of them is the true definition from my
> dictionary. Please vote for your two favourites by public reply to this
> message before the deadline of:
>
> 21:00 UTC on Monday3rd November in my time zone, which is:
> 22:00 CET
> 4:00 PM EST
> 1:00 PM PST
> 10:00 AEST in Melbourne
> 12:00 NZDT in New Zealand
>
> -- Tim L
>
> *** QUAGSWAGGING ***
>
> 1. gossip.
>
> 2. clam digging.
>
> 3. growing in dry places.
>
> 4. _Obs. rare._ the action of shaking to and fro.
>
> 5. walking through deep mud on purpose made stilts.
>
> 6. _Slang_ the act of ensnaring; a catching or entrapping.
>
> 7. _Australia sl._ excellent, outstanding (esp. of food).
>
> 8. (sl.) trekking through the Outback with excessive baggage.
>
> 9. a window treatment similar to a valance but with long sides.
>
> 10. to produce, distribute, or sell without permission or illegally.
>
> 11. exaggeration or intentional misinterpretation, usu. for comical
> effect.
>
> 12. to treat with bitter, pert, or tart language; to be impudent or
> saucy to.
>
> 13. a courtship ritual of the emperor penguin, involving deep bowing,
> and clacking of beaks.
>
> 14. dancing lights over bogs, swamps or marshy places [_ignis fatuus_
> see also will-o'-the-wisp, jack-o-lantern, hinkypunky]
>
> 15. a kind of border detail, often incorporating fan-like images,
> characteristic of breakfronts, escritoires, etc. of the immediate
> pre-Victorian era.
>
> 16. an event formerly held in some Scottish towns to commemorate the
> flight of Charles Edward Stuart (known as Bonnie Prince Charlie) from
> Scotland; marked with pipers, bonfires etc.
>
>
>
>

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[Judy Madnick]

5. walking through deep mud on purpose made stilts.

14. dancing lights over bogs, swamps or marshy places [_ignis fatuus_ see also will-o'-the-wisp, jack-o-lantern, hinkypunky]

Judy Madnick
Albany, NY

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[Steve Graham]

I'll take 5 and 16, please



Steve Graham



5. walking through deep mud on purpose made stilts.

16. an event formerly held in some Scottish towns to commemorate the flight of Charles Edward Stuart (known as Bonnie Prince Charlie) from Scotland; marked with pipers, bonfires etc.




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[endash@verizon.net]

I'll try numbers 1 and 9.  -- Dick Weltz
 




 



 





On 11/02/14, Tim Lodge<5sfwiyj02 (AT) sneakemail (DOT) com> wrote:

 





Here are 16 defs of the word QUAGSWAGGING. 15 of them are the product of your fevered imaginations, and one of them is the true definition from my dictionary.  Please vote for your two favourites by public reply to this message before the deadline of:

      21:00 UTC on Monday3rd November in my time zone, which is:
      22:00 CET
       4:00 PM EST
       1:00 PM PST
      10:00 AEST in Melbourne
      12:00 NZDT in New Zealand

--  Tim L

 *** QUAGSWAGGING ***

 1.     gossip.

 2.     clam digging.

 3.     growing in dry places.

 4.     _Obs. rare._  the action of shaking to and fro.

 5.     walking through deep mud on purpose made stilts.

 6.     _Slang_ the act of ensnaring; a catching or entrapping.

 7.     _Australia sl._   excellent, outstanding (esp. of food).

 8.     (sl.) trekking through the Outback with excessive baggage.

 9.     a window treatment similar to a valance but with long sides.

10.     to produce, distribute, or sell without permission or illegally.

11.     exaggeration or intentional misinterpretation, usu. for comical effect.

12.     to treat with bitter, pert, or tart language; to be impudent or saucy to.

13.     a courtship ritual of the emperor penguin, involving deep bowing, and clacking of beaks.

14.     dancing lights over bogs, swamps or marshy places [_ignis fatuus_ see also will-o'-the-wisp, jack-o-lantern, hinkypunky]

15.     a kind of border detail, often incorporating fan-like images, characteristic of breakfronts, escritoires, etc. of the immediate pre-Victorian era.

16.     an event formerly held in some Scottish towns to commemorate the flight of Charles Edward Stuart (known as Bonnie Prince Charlie) from Scotland; marked with pipers, bonfires etc.









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[—Keith Hale—]

I will try numbers 10 & 14 because i like 'em.

-Keith-

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[Shani Naylor]

1 & 11 for me please.

Shani

On Mon, Nov 3, 2014 at 12:30 AM, Tim Lodge <5sfwiyj02 (AT) sneakemail (DOT) com> wrote:

> Here are 16 defs of the word QUAGSWAGGING. 15 of them are the product of
> your fevered imaginations, and one of them is the true definition from my
> dictionary. Please vote for your two favourites by public reply to this
> message before the deadline of:
>
> 21:00 UTC on Monday3rd November in my time zone, which is:
> 22:00 CET
> 4:00 PM EST
> 1:00 PM PST
> 10:00 AEST in Melbourne
> 12:00 NZDT in New Zealand
>
> -- Tim L
>
> *** QUAGSWAGGING ***
>
> 1. gossip.
>
> 2. clam digging.
>
> 3. growing in dry places.
>
> 4. _Obs. rare._ the action of shaking to and fro.
>
> 5. walking through deep mud on purpose made stilts.
>
> 6. _Slang_ the act of ensnaring; a catching or entrapping.
>
> 7. _Australia sl._ excellent, outstanding (esp. of food).
>
> 8. (sl.) trekking through the Outback with excessive baggage.
>
> 9. a window treatment similar to a valance but with long sides.
>
> 10. to produce, distribute, or sell without permission or illegally.
>
> 11. exaggeration or intentional misinterpretation, usu. for comical
> effect.
>
> 12. to treat with bitter, pert, or tart language; to be impudent or
> saucy to.
>
> 13. a courtship ritual of the emperor penguin, involving deep bowing,
> and clacking of beaks.
>
> 14. dancing lights over bogs, swamps or marshy places [_ignis fatuus_
> see also will-o'-the-wisp, jack-o-lantern, hinkypunky]
>
> 15. a kind of border detail, often incorporating fan-like images,
> characteristic of breakfronts, escritoires, etc. of the immediate
> pre-Victorian era.
>
> 16. an event formerly held in some Scottish towns to commemorate the
> flight of Charles Edward Stuart (known as Bonnie Prince Charlie) from
> Scotland; marked with pipers, bonfires etc.
>
>
>
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[Jim Hart]

I like the image of walking through deep mud on purpose - more so than on
stilts. My dictionary's editor would have hyphenated purpose-made but each
to their own. He would also purse his lips on seeing a present participle
defined by an infinitive. He's like that I'm afraid. I try to ignore him
most of the time but we are in agreement that the other quagmire-related
defs though plausible seem perhaps too obvious.

I've never been quite certain exactly what a valance is or does - is it for
a bed or a window? However I would gladly go out and buy one in a delicate
English floral print, just so I could be the man who shopped for a Liberty
Valance.

I don't recall any song dealing with escritoires, nevertheless I'll stick
with the decorative effects and vote for 9 and 15.

Jim




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[Millie Morgan]

I like 2 and 5

2. clam digging.
5. walking through deep mud on purpose made stilts.


Best wishes,
Millie

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[Daniel Widdis]

to and fro. Er, two and four.

On 11/02/14, Tim Lodge<5sfwiyj02 (AT) sneakemail (DOT) com> wrote:
>
> 2. clam digging.
> 4. _Obs. rare._ the action of shaking to and fro.
>

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[Rose Knoblauch]

2 and 13, please.

I want 13 to be true, and I want to see a video of it!

On 2 November 2014 03:30, Tim Lodge <5sfwiyj02 (AT) sneakemail (DOT) com> wrote:

> Here are 16 defs of the word QUAGSWAGGING. 15 of them are the product of
> your fevered imaginations, and one of them is the true definition from my
> dictionary. Please vote for your two favourites by public reply to this
> message before the deadline of:
>
> 21:00 UTC on Monday3rd November in my time zone, which is:
> 22:00 CET
> 4:00 PM EST
> 1:00 PM PST
> 10:00 AEST in Melbourne
> 12:00 NZDT in New Zealand
>
> -- Tim L
>
> *** QUAGSWAGGING ***
>
> 1. gossip.
>
> 2. clam digging.
>
> 3. growing in dry places.
>
> 4. _Obs. rare._ the action of shaking to and fro.
>
> 5. walking through deep mud on purpose made stilts.
>
> 6. _Slang_ the act of ensnaring; a catching or entrapping.
>
> 7. _Australia sl._ excellent, outstanding (esp. of food).
>
> 8. (sl.) trekking through the Outback with excessive baggage.
>
> 9. a window treatment similar to a valance but with long sides.
>
> 10. to produce, distribute, or sell without permission or illegally.
>
> 11. exaggeration or intentional misinterpretation, usu. for comical
> effect.
>
> 12. to treat with bitter, pert, or tart language; to be impudent or
> saucy to.
>
> 13. a courtship ritual of the emperor penguin, involving deep bowing,
> and clacking of beaks.
>
> 14. dancing lights over bogs, swamps or marshy places [_ignis fatuus_
> see also will-o'-the-wisp, jack-o-lantern, hinkypunky]
>
> 15. a kind of border detail, often incorporating fan-like images,
> characteristic of breakfronts, escritoires, etc. of the immediate
> pre-Victorian era.
>
> 16. an event formerly held in some Scottish towns to commemorate the
> flight of Charles Edward Stuart (known as Bonnie Prince Charlie) from
> Scotland; marked with pipers, bonfires etc.
>
>
>
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[Guerri Stevens]

I vote for 2 and 10.

Guerri
On 11/2/2014 6:30 AM, Tim Lodge wrote:
>
> 2. clam digging.
>
> 10. to produce, distribute, or sell without permission or illegally.

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[JohnB]

I'll go for #3 and #4 please


*JohnnyB

*
On 02/11/2014 11:30, Tim Lodge wrote:
> Here are 16 defs of the word QUAGSWAGGING. 15 of them are the product
> of your fevered imaginations, and one of them is the true definition
> from my dictionary. Please vote for your two favourites by public
> reply to this message before the deadline of:
>
> 21:00 UTC on Monday3rd November in my time zone, which is:
> 22:00 CET
> 4:00 PM EST
> 1:00 PM PST
> 10:00 AEST in Melbourne
> 12:00 NZDT in New Zealand
>
> -- Tim L
>
> *** QUAGSWAGGING ***
>
> 1. gossip.
>
> 2. clam digging.
>
> 3. growing in dry places.
>
> 4. _Obs. rare._ the action of shaking to and fro.
>
> 5. walking through deep mud on purpose made stilts.
>
> 6. _Slang_ the act of ensnaring; a catching or entrapping.
>
> 7. _Australia sl._ excellent, outstanding (esp. of food).
>
> 8. (sl.) trekking through the Outback with excessive baggage.
>
> 9. a window treatment similar to a valance but with long sides.
>
> 10. to produce, distribute, or sell without permission or illegally.
>
> 11. exaggeration or intentional misinterpretation, usu. for
> comical effect.
>
> 12. to treat with bitter, pert, or tart language; to be impudent
> or saucy to.
>
> 13. a courtship ritual of the emperor penguin, involving deep
> bowing, and clacking of beaks.
>
> 14. dancing lights over bogs, swamps or marshy places [_ignis
> fatuus_ see also will-o'-the-wisp, jack-o-lantern, hinkypunky]
>
> 15. a kind of border detail, often incorporating fan-like images,
> characteristic of breakfronts, escritoires, etc. of the immediate
> pre-Victorian era.
>
> 16. an event formerly held in some Scottish towns to commemorate
> the flight of Charles Edward Stuart (known as Bonnie Prince Charlie)
> from Scotland; marked with pipers, bonfires etc.
>
>
>
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[Jim Hart]

Johnny - when I read your message on the G/groups website for some reason
Google asked me if I wanted a translation. I had somehow already managed to
read your message and thought I had understood it well enough but being
curious I said yes. And lo! the translation was identical to the original.
Icelandic must be closer to English than I thought.

This has happened occasionally before. I wonder what triggers it?

Jim


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[JohnB]

Jim

it is probably a symptom of the 'separated by a common language'
syndrome. I never expect to be understood anyway but I must say that
consider that "I'll go for #3 and #4 please" would have been
comprehensible without translation even to a computer intelligence

(interesting: Mozilla Thunderbird is currently questioning the spelling
of my name in the signature which is something it doesn't normally do)

*JohnnyB

*
On 03/11/2014 12:31, Jim Hart wrote:
> Johnny - when I read your message on the G/groups website for some
> reason Google asked me if I wanted a translation. I had somehow
> already managed to read your message and thought I had understood it
> well enough but being curious I said yes. And lo! the translation was
> identical to the original. Icelandic must be closer to English than I
> thought.
>
> This has happened occasionally before. I wonder what triggers it?
>
> Jim
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[Dodi Schultz]

Good word—a real puzzler. I'll try

4. _Obs. rare._ the action of shaking to and fro.

and

11. exaggeration or intentional misinterpretation, usu. for comical effect.


—Dodi

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[Tony Abell]

The bog stilts definition is by far the cleverest, but I'm going for 4 and 10:

> 4. _Obs. rare._ the action of shaking to and fro.

> 10. to produce, distribute, or sell without permission or illegally.

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[Daniel Widdis]

I logged on and saw exactly the same thing. Although the translation
wasn't quite identical. There were spaces between the # and the
numerals on #3 and #4.

One might assume that collection of words and numerals appeared more
often in Google's Icelandic corpus than in its English one.

On 11/3/14, 4:31 AM, Jim Hart wrote:
> Johnny - when I read your message on the G/groups website for some
> reason Google asked me if I wanted a translation. I had somehow
> already managed to read your message and thought I had understood it
> well enough but being curious I said yes. And lo! the translation was
> identical to the original. Icelandic must be closer to English than I
> thought.
>
> This has happened occasionally before. I wonder what triggers it?

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[Efrem Mallach]

I'll try 5 and 8.

Efrem

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On Nov 2, 2014, at 6:30 AM, Tim Lodge <5sfwiyj02 (AT) sneakemail (DOT) com> wrote:

> Here are 16 defs of the word QUAGSWAGGING. 15 of them are the product of your fevered imaginations, and one of them is the true definition from my dictionary. Please vote for your two favourites by public reply to this message before the deadline of:
>
> 21:00 UTC on Monday3rd November in my time zone, which is:
> 22:00 CET
> 4:00 PM EST
> 1:00 PM PST
> 10:00 AEST in Melbourne
> 12:00 NZDT in New Zealand
>
> -- Tim L
>
> *** QUAGSWAGGING ***
>
> 5. walking through deep mud on purpose made stilts.
>
> 8. (sl.) trekking through the Outback with excessive baggage.

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[John Barrs]

Maybe its the foreigner thing == I am set up for UK keyboard and en_gb

UTF8 incoming

of course, it doesn't ask me if I need a translate but also there is
nowhere where I can see any comment about icelandic either

JohnnyB

On 3 November 2014 16:46, Daniel Widdis <widdis (AT) dixonary (DOT) net> wrote:

> I logged on and saw exactly the same thing. Although the translation
> wasn't quite identical. There were spaces between the # and the numerals
> on #3 and #4.
>
> One might assume that collection of words and numerals appeared more often
> in Google's Icelandic corpus than in its English one.
>
> On 11/3/14, 4:31 AM, Jim Hart wrote:
>
>> Johnny - when I read your message on the G/groups website for some reason
>> Google asked me if I wanted a translation. I had somehow already managed to
>> read your message and thought I had understood it well enough but being
>> curious I said yes. And lo! the translation was identical to the original.
>> Icelandic must be closer to English than I thought.
>>
>> This has happened occasionally before. I wonder what triggers it?
>>
>
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[JohnB]

are there enough icelandicers to have a corpus? (or is that make a corpus?)
*
JohnnyB*
On 03/11/2014 16:46, Daniel Widdis wrote:
> I logged on and saw exactly the same thing. Although the translation
> wasn't quite identical. There were spaces between the # and the
> numerals on #3 and #4.
>
> One might assume that collection of words and numerals appeared more
> often in Google's Icelandic corpus than in its English one.
>
> On 11/3/14, 4:31 AM, Jim Hart wrote:
>> Johnny - when I read your message on the G/groups website for some
>> reason Google asked me if I wanted a translation. I had somehow
>> already managed to read your message and thought I had understood it
>> well enough but being curious I said yes. And lo! the translation was
>> identical to the original. Icelandic must be closer to English than I
>> thought.
>>
>> This has happened occasionally before. I wonder what triggers it?
>

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[Jim Hart]

Dan - Agreed, and I didn't notice the added spaces after the #. As if that
made it suddenly comprehensible!
- Jim


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