Tim Lodge
April 10th, 2006, 03:22 AM
After a slow start, the defs cam pouring overnight, so we've got 21
splendid definitions of the word KYKE. Vote for TWO definitions, as
a public forum message (in reply to this one), before the deadline
which is:
21:00 BST on Tuesday 11th April, which is
4:00 PM EDT and
1 PM PDT, all on the same ady
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 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/coryphaeus/files/Game%
20Rules%20and%20Advice%20for%20Players/
-- Tim L
**** KYKE ****
1: a carpentry tool.
2: a young albatross.
3: an elastic-sided boot.
4: small child (Carib. sl.)
5: a road-side stone marker.
6: a scoop-paddle water wheel.
7: a byproduct of gas refining.
8: [Korean] a tractor (also _kujke_)
9: organic sediment at bottom of an aquarium.
10: [Scot.] a small dog, esp. an annoying one.
11: [Scot.] to wail or sob; to grieve loudly.
12: _N. dial._ a chicken [ON form: see _chicken_]
13: a German pudding of rice, sugar and coriander.
14: to look steadfastly; to gaze; to look at intensely.
15: small boat used by Eskimos, made from seal or walrus skin.
16: [Scot.] to be peevish [< Gael. _cearr_, left, wrong, awkward.]
17: (Bot.) an obsolete name for certain fungi composed of slender
threads.
18: a small yellow bird, similar to the finch, found in northeastern
Borneo.
19: any of a genus (Kyconia) of herbs of the lily family with pink
or white flowers.
20: _Nautical_ a crossbar on a ship's rudder to which the steering
cables are connected.
21: a sign used in the notation of plainsong during the Middle Ages,
surviving today in transcriptions of Gregorian chants.
splendid definitions of the word KYKE. Vote for TWO definitions, as
a public forum message (in reply to this one), before the deadline
which is:
21:00 BST on Tuesday 11th April, which is
4:00 PM EDT and
1 PM PDT, all on the same ady
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 http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/coryphaeus/files/Game%
20Rules%20and%20Advice%20for%20Players/
-- Tim L
**** KYKE ****
1: a carpentry tool.
2: a young albatross.
3: an elastic-sided boot.
4: small child (Carib. sl.)
5: a road-side stone marker.
6: a scoop-paddle water wheel.
7: a byproduct of gas refining.
8: [Korean] a tractor (also _kujke_)
9: organic sediment at bottom of an aquarium.
10: [Scot.] a small dog, esp. an annoying one.
11: [Scot.] to wail or sob; to grieve loudly.
12: _N. dial._ a chicken [ON form: see _chicken_]
13: a German pudding of rice, sugar and coriander.
14: to look steadfastly; to gaze; to look at intensely.
15: small boat used by Eskimos, made from seal or walrus skin.
16: [Scot.] to be peevish [< Gael. _cearr_, left, wrong, awkward.]
17: (Bot.) an obsolete name for certain fungi composed of slender
threads.
18: a small yellow bird, similar to the finch, found in northeastern
Borneo.
19: any of a genus (Kyconia) of herbs of the lily family with pink
or white flowers.
20: _Nautical_ a crossbar on a ship's rudder to which the steering
cables are connected.
21: a sign used in the notation of plainsong during the Middle Ages,
surviving today in transcriptions of Gregorian chants.