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Dodi Schultz
January 18th, 2016, 01:05 PM
The real ellachick, a native American reptile, was fingered only by two foreigners; see #13 below. Our next dealer is Efrem Mallach, whose migrating Russian peasant (#16) was chosen by six voters. Shani Naylor, whose turtle frog (#14) was not quite as popular, is the real winner with an unnatural six points.

Efrem has been privately notified and advises that he's out in the New England chill doing errands and will be posting the new word before the day is over.

—Dodi


 1. someone who takes a certain position or assumes a certain manner in order to impress others.
By Guerri Stevens, who voted for 4 and 16
No votes / Score: 0

 2. a strip of lead used to separate lines of type in the days of metal typesetting.
By Steve Graham, who voted for 3 and 8
No votes / Score: 0

 3. a handsome European butterfly having ocelli like those of the peacock.
By Dan Widdis, who voted for 7 and 15
Votes from Cunningham, Graham, Madnick / Score: 3

 4. a worthless item or commodity, esp. one sold fraudulently.
By Jim Hart, who voted for 7 and 15
Votes from Stevens and Weltz / Score: 2

 5. [ME] a stranger. (poss. from _ella_, meaning _Greek_)
By Dave Cunningham, who voted for 3 and 11
No votes / Score: 0

 6. a cavalry soldier of the Ottoman Empire.
By Tim Lodge, who voted for 12 and 16
Vote from Keating / Score: 1

 7. a disgruntled customer.
By Tony Abell, who voted for 12 and 15
Votes from Hart and Widdis / Score: 2

 8. a juvenile walrus.
By Mike Shefler, who voted for 14 and 16
Votes from Graham and Naylor / Score: 2

 9. poverty.
By Keith Hale, who voted for 16 and 17
No votes / Score: 0

10. any Greek starlet.
By Johnny Barrs, who voted for *13* and 14
No votes / Score: *2*

11. an inhabitant of St. Petersburg.
By Paul Keating, who voted for 6 and 16
Votes from Bourne, Cunningham, Mallach / Score: 3

12. the sooty shearwater, _Puffinus griseus_.
By Tim Bourne, who voted for 11 and 16
Votes from Abell and Lodge / Score: 2

13. a fresh-water tortoise of California, used as food.
By Merriam-Webster II
Votes from Barrs and Naylor / Score: D2

14. the Western Australian turtle frog, _ Myobatrachus gouldii_.
By Shani Naylor, who voted for 8 and *13*
Votes from Barrs, Mallach, Madnick, Shefler / Score: *6*

15. shoddy cloth made from shredding old or waste woven material.
By Judy Madnick, who voted for 3 and 14
Votes from Abell, Hart, Weltz, Widdis / Score: 4

16. in Czarist Russia, a member of the peasant class who took up abode in a city.
By Efrem Mallach, who voted for 11 and 14
Votes from Bourne, Hale, Keating, Lodge, Shefler, Stevens / Score: 6

17. of, relating to, or consisting of two dactylic hexameter lines the second of which lacks the arsis in the third and sixth feet.
By Dick Weltz, who voted for 4 and 15
Vote from Hale / Score: 1






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