Tim Lodge
September 7th, 2006, 04:38 AM
Your collective imagination never fails to amaze me! Here are 18
off-the-wall defs for the word KRIOBOLY, only one of which came from
my dictionary. Vote for TWO definitions, as a public forum message
(in reply to this one), before the deadline of
21:00 BST on Friday 8th September
20:00 UTC
4:00 PM EDT
1:00 PM PDT all on the same day
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://tinyurl.com/br3oc
-- Tim L
** KRIOBOLY **
1: refuse from winemaking.
2: the art of ice sculpture.
3: _Pol._ a sausage pudding.
4: a high-protein soybean hybrid.
5: [Rus.] a child's toy, similar to a top.
6: _Slang_ a corpsicle: i.e. a frozen cadaver.
7: in the Ukraine, a dry colorless brandy made from cherries or
plums.
8: a technique of cooking using very low temperatures. (also
_cryoboly_)
9: an intricate knitting technique that produces raised balls
(popcorn stitch).
10: (_Gk. krios_ cold, _ballein_, to throw) The act or practice of
throwing snowballs.
11: an early Aztec dental filling produced by pouring molten gold
directly into the cavity.
12: [Gr. Antiq.] a sacrifice in which many rams were slaughtered; a
bath in the blood of rams.
13: a system of dance notation first developed by Stravinsky to
accomodate the changing meters in his ballet "Firebird".
14: one who collaborated in the USSR invasion of Czechoslovakia,
1968 [Russianized rendering of Cz _krivol_ prostitute, sell-out]
15: _Med._ a disorder of the endocrine glands in which an imbalance
of hormones results in asymmetrical growth of the extremities.
16: _Archaic_ black bile; an emotional state characterized by
sullenness and outbreaks of violent anger, believed to arise from
black bile.
17: a noninflammatory skin disease, caused by guadua bamboo leaves.
Symptoms include dark red spots, severe itching and in rare cases
temporary loss of sensitivity.
18: 1. n. short stabbing spear used to sacrifice the oxen on the
beach [Gk. (in Homer) Xreo- to sacrifice + bole - javelin, short
spear] 2. specifically in Christian theology, the spear used to
pierce Christ on the cross. [Gk Xristos + bole; Xristos comes from
Xreo]
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off-the-wall defs for the word KRIOBOLY, only one of which came from
my dictionary. Vote for TWO definitions, as a public forum message
(in reply to this one), before the deadline of
21:00 BST on Friday 8th September
20:00 UTC
4:00 PM EDT
1:00 PM PDT all on the same day
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://tinyurl.com/br3oc
-- Tim L
** KRIOBOLY **
1: refuse from winemaking.
2: the art of ice sculpture.
3: _Pol._ a sausage pudding.
4: a high-protein soybean hybrid.
5: [Rus.] a child's toy, similar to a top.
6: _Slang_ a corpsicle: i.e. a frozen cadaver.
7: in the Ukraine, a dry colorless brandy made from cherries or
plums.
8: a technique of cooking using very low temperatures. (also
_cryoboly_)
9: an intricate knitting technique that produces raised balls
(popcorn stitch).
10: (_Gk. krios_ cold, _ballein_, to throw) The act or practice of
throwing snowballs.
11: an early Aztec dental filling produced by pouring molten gold
directly into the cavity.
12: [Gr. Antiq.] a sacrifice in which many rams were slaughtered; a
bath in the blood of rams.
13: a system of dance notation first developed by Stravinsky to
accomodate the changing meters in his ballet "Firebird".
14: one who collaborated in the USSR invasion of Czechoslovakia,
1968 [Russianized rendering of Cz _krivol_ prostitute, sell-out]
15: _Med._ a disorder of the endocrine glands in which an imbalance
of hormones results in asymmetrical growth of the extremities.
16: _Archaic_ black bile; an emotional state characterized by
sullenness and outbreaks of violent anger, believed to arise from
black bile.
17: a noninflammatory skin disease, caused by guadua bamboo leaves.
Symptoms include dark red spots, severe itching and in rare cases
temporary loss of sensitivity.
18: 1. n. short stabbing spear used to sacrifice the oxen on the
beach [Gk. (in Homer) Xreo- to sacrifice + bole - javelin, short
spear] 2. specifically in Christian theology, the spear used to
pierce Christ on the cross. [Gk Xristos + bole; Xristos comes from
Xreo]
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