I keep looking at the last 5 letters of the word and that forces me to
consider several references to books.
I guess that I'll pick 5 for the one I really like and just because it
should have a word to describe it, 7.
That's 5 and 7, please.
Baffled in Bavaria
Inside some of us is a thin person struggling to get out, but they can
usually be sedated with a few pieces of chocolate cake.
-Author Unknown
> [Original Message]
> From: Tony Abell <aabell (AT) compuserve (DOT) com>
> To: <coryphaeus (AT) yahoogroups (DOT) com>
> Date: 7/22/2006 9:20:42 AM
> Subject: [Dixonary] Round 1727 - QUIBIBLE Defs Up
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> Please find below a mere 18 definitions of QUIBIBLE, one of which comes
from a
> real dictionary. Vote for two definitions by way of a public reply to this
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> The deadline for voting is
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> Good luck!
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> 1. Drinking buddy (from latin: qui biblis - who drinks).
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> 2. _obs_ Moot; debatable, especially of legal definitions.
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> 3. An upset stomach.
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> 4. A narrow pointed tool used to align type.
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> 5. To disagree over the interpretation of a religious text.
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> 6. A dry, dusty easterly or northeasterly wind on the West African coast,
> occurring from December to February.
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> 7. Of a word that has entered the language through the perpetuation, in
> dictionaries, etc., of an error.
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> 8. A mixture of rum or gin, water, sugar, and nutmeg, or similar drink.
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> 9. A book of biographical sketches.
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> 10. A mark used by early printers to identify their work.
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> 11. [qui bible] Monastic selection of the psalms which have 'qui' in the
first
> verse, used for the special offices in Lent. The bibles used were
complete
> but the 'qui' was illuminated rather than the first letter only.
Commonly
> used in the great Cistercian Abbeys of England, the only two now
known to
> exist are in the Vatican.
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> 12. Able to be disjoined.
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> 13. Able to be quibbed, i.e., to be pruned back severely.
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> 14. _Australian Slang_ A person regarded as stupid, inept, or
unattractive.
> Often shortened to "a quib."
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> 15. A pipe or whistle.
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> 16. A manuscript, later revealed as a hoax, claimed in the late 1920s to
be an
> early translation into Latin of a part of the Old Testament.
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> 17. [Fr.] A list of prominent persons; a Who's Who.
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> 18. A small latch.
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