[Dixonary] Round 1718: CULACINO definitions [Archive]

Wayne Scott, M.D.

June 21st, 2006, 12:55 AM

I'm leaving for Vienna and Venice Friday morning. I hope to leave several
spots of condensation from glasses of Austrian beer so I'll take 18.
The last time I was in Europe a band of Gypsies tried to grab something
from Marion's car window when we were stopped at a signal, so that sounds
like 6.
I won't have access to the internet until July 2. I won't make any silly
votes until then.

Wayne

Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it, but don't swallow it.
-Hank Ketchum

> [Original Message]
> From: Daniel B. Widdis <widdis (AT) gmail (DOT) com>
> To: <coryphaeus (AT) yahoogroups (DOT) com>
> Date: 6/19/2006 12:18:05 PM
> Subject: [Dixonary] Round 1718: CULACINO definitions
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> Presented, along with a "Chocolato", my new favorite drink from Green
Beans
> Coffee, are twenty one potential definitions for CULACINO, only one of
which
> is actually true. Please vote for the other twenty to reward their
creative
> authors! Voting for the real one will give you two points, but that'd be
> such a selfish thing to do, now, wouldn't it?
>
> Vote for two definitions, as a public reply to this message. You have
just
> over 36 hours to vote: I'll close the polls at 11:26am Wednesday, June
> 21 in Iraq. That's 07.26 UTC, 3:26am EDT, and 26 minutes after midnight
on
> the U.S. west coast. More importantly, it's precisely five hours before
the
> summer solstice.
>
> 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 in the file
> RULES.DIX in library 17.
>
> *** CULACINO ***
>
> 1: a milk-goat.
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> 2: cauliflower [Ital.]
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> 3: [Ital.] a yes-man or sycophant.
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> 4: a clear varnish used to seal oil paintings.
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> 5: [Rumanian] a cinema; a theatre for motion pictures.
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> 6: Spanish gypsy dance with sudden tempo and mood changes.
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> 7: in Europe, a warm, early-spring wind from the Mediterranean.
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> 8: a mezcal of the Mexican state of Sonora aged in used sherry casks.
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> 9: a very mild pepper, related to the jalapeno but containing very little
> capsaicin.
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> 10: [It.] apprentice cook in a restaurant, usually assigned the task of
> kneading dough for pastas and pizzas.
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> 11: any of various antibacterial proteins that are produced by some
strains
> of intestinal bacteria (as Escherichia coli) having a specific plasmid and
> that often act to inhibit macromolecular synthesis in related strains.
>
> 12: the rare Lakshmi Conch (sinistral turbinella pyrum), which spirals to
> the right instead of the more common left.
>
> 13: the process in film production in which animated pictures and filmed
> action are put together.
>
> 14: an apparatus for impregnating a liquid with a gas, esp. carbon
dioxide.
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> 15: a decorative knot used in embroidery [L culaxare, to tighten]
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> 16: an herb of the fennel family used to flavor bouillabaisse.
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> 17: an attachment to a pasta machine for producing shells.
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> 18: [It.] a mark left on a surface by a moist glass.
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> 19: a large yellow parrot of Central America.
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> 20: a mute for an instrument.
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> 21: short, shorts.
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