Daniel B. Widdis
August 30th, 2006, 04:00 PM
Eighteen players have submitted wonderfully inventive definitions for
COOEY, to which I've added the definition appearing in an actual
dictionary. You now have the opportunity to vote for two of these
definitions, as a public reply to this message.
I will be flying to another base sometime between 30 and 42 hours from
this posting, and don't know exactly when. Accordingly, I'm going to
set the voting deadline 30 hours from now, but will continue to
collect any "late" votes after that point until I am actually able to
post results, which may be closer to the nominal 36 hours. That makes
the deadline at 02.00 UTC on Friday; or 7pm/10pm Thursday PDT/EDT
respectively.
New players are welcome, even if you didn't enter a definition this
round. Don't look in a dictionary.
*** COOEY ***
1: sweetheart.
2: [Scot.] a cane-maker.
3: [Ir.] a sod-roofed cottage.
4: the New England red pheasant.
5: lumberman's spiked and hooked lever.
6: an incompletely addressed letter (from Latin cui, "to whom")
7: a small flywheel that regulates the speed of a spinning wheel.
8: a coop or cage for small animals; a henhouse [Du. kooi, MDu. cooye, 'hutch']
9: (_Reg. Am ._) the skin which forms on the surface of milk or cocoa
which has been warmed without stirring.
10: [Aust.] a small evergreen shrub, _Acokanthera oppositifolia_, used
by bushmen as a bonding agent for the poison on their arrows. Also
called bushman's poison.
11: a grass with very sharply awned seed-heads which can become
embedded in the lips and tongue of grazing animals. (also cooie)
12: [Of imitative origin.] a peculiar whistling sound made by the
Australian aborigenes as a call or signal.
13: an exclamation noting an abrupt happening; also written cooie.
14: a wild duck, the white scoter, of northeastern North America.
15: a small pail or bowl of staves and hoops.
16: _obs._ a kind of suet pudding.
17: [Scots] enjoying young love.
18: [Scot.] curdled goat milk.
19: _Archaic_ a dupe.
--
Dan Widdis
COOEY, to which I've added the definition appearing in an actual
dictionary. You now have the opportunity to vote for two of these
definitions, as a public reply to this message.
I will be flying to another base sometime between 30 and 42 hours from
this posting, and don't know exactly when. Accordingly, I'm going to
set the voting deadline 30 hours from now, but will continue to
collect any "late" votes after that point until I am actually able to
post results, which may be closer to the nominal 36 hours. That makes
the deadline at 02.00 UTC on Friday; or 7pm/10pm Thursday PDT/EDT
respectively.
New players are welcome, even if you didn't enter a definition this
round. Don't look in a dictionary.
*** COOEY ***
1: sweetheart.
2: [Scot.] a cane-maker.
3: [Ir.] a sod-roofed cottage.
4: the New England red pheasant.
5: lumberman's spiked and hooked lever.
6: an incompletely addressed letter (from Latin cui, "to whom")
7: a small flywheel that regulates the speed of a spinning wheel.
8: a coop or cage for small animals; a henhouse [Du. kooi, MDu. cooye, 'hutch']
9: (_Reg. Am ._) the skin which forms on the surface of milk or cocoa
which has been warmed without stirring.
10: [Aust.] a small evergreen shrub, _Acokanthera oppositifolia_, used
by bushmen as a bonding agent for the poison on their arrows. Also
called bushman's poison.
11: a grass with very sharply awned seed-heads which can become
embedded in the lips and tongue of grazing animals. (also cooie)
12: [Of imitative origin.] a peculiar whistling sound made by the
Australian aborigenes as a call or signal.
13: an exclamation noting an abrupt happening; also written cooie.
14: a wild duck, the white scoter, of northeastern North America.
15: a small pail or bowl of staves and hoops.
16: _obs._ a kind of suet pudding.
17: [Scots] enjoying young love.
18: [Scot.] curdled goat milk.
19: _Archaic_ a dupe.
--
Dan Widdis