[Dixonary] Gaberlunzie defs up!

[Dodi Schultz]

I like a LOT of these; winnowing is difficult. I'll go with #1 and #11. I
think.

--Dodi

[bonnyjars]

Bill

Minced conch is a delightful def and and the idea of a king being so tightfisted as to pay his bedesmen by allowing them to beg is
also so outrageous that I have to vote for that too

So #3 and #9 please


JohnnyB





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[Judy Madnick]

Well, maybe it's one or the other. <G>

<< 8. _Scots_ A soft cheese made from curds.

<< 13. A traditional New England soft cheese.

Judy Madnick
Albany, NY

[Toni Savage]

sure does sound Scots... but there are too many Scottish defs! Hmmmm.... I'll go for 5 and 9, please.






-- Toni Savage

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[Keno77773@aol.com]

I vote to license beggars #9 and the busybody #14.

Roberta Muths


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[Wayne Scott, M.D.]

8 and 14, please.

Wayne

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: Bill Hirst <billhirst (AT) comcast (DOT) net>
> To: <coryphaeus (AT) yahoogroups (DOT) com>
> Date: 8/19/2006 10:05:18 PM
> Subject: [Dixonary] Gaberlunzie defs up!
>
> Here they are, 20 amazing and perplexing definitions, one of which
> comes from a real dictionary. Vote for your two favorites by public
> reply to this message before...Let's make it Monday at 5pm Eastern
> time, 2pm on the Left Coast, about 2100 Greenwich/UTC/Zulu.
>
>
> 1. 1. A howling dog; 2. [obs] a lunatic [literally: 'one who cries
> at the moon']
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> 2. a lantern used for night fishing in Newfoundland and parts of
> Nova Scotia .
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> 3. Fried minced conch in scrambled eggs.
>
> 4. [It] A kind of kilt worn in the Alps.
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> 5. (Scots) A cow, especially one with crooked horns.
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> 6. A person who makes hypocritical or affected statements.
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> 7. A Viennese pastry in the shape of a swastika.
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> 8. _Scots_ A soft cheese made from curds.
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> 9. A mendicant; or, more strictly speaking, one of the king's
> bedesmen, who were licensed beggars.
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> 10. _Hapax legomenon._ a fictitious vegetable supposedly thrown at
> ignominious persons (Caroll, _The hunting of the snark_)
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> 11. A sort of decorative knob on a newel-post.
>
> 12. Uncontrollably exuberant; unruly.
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> 13. A traditional New England soft cheese.
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> 14. [Scot.] one who interferes in other people's business; a
> busybody.
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> 15. Local Scottish name for the red grouse.
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> 16. One of several flexible strips of wood or plastic placed in
> pockets at the outer edge of a sail to keep it flat.
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> 17. -obs._ A smock, especially of a Mason.
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> 18. _Gael._ one having an irresistible urge to dance, especially at
> the time of the full moon.
>
> 19. [Scot] Werewolf.
>
> 20. A native costume-decorative blouse- worn by woman in Bavaria.
>
> -Bill
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[Christopher Carson]

I'll go for 2 and 11 this time.

Chris