Tim Lodge
November 16th, 2006, 04:25 AM
Well, I'm glad I'm dealing and not choosing, because most of these
defs seem beleievable to me. Here are 20 defs of the word SHRIKHAND,
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
19:00 UTC on Friday 17th November, which is ...
2:00 PM EST
11:00 AM PST, 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
Have fun!
-- Tim L
** SHRIKHAND **
1: deft, nimble.
2: the white tiger.
3: a large bird of Madagascar.
4: [Dutch] stenography; shorthand.
5: (Naut.) the keeper of the grog.
6: a temporary shelter used by nomads in Nepal.
7: second rate politician or incompetent leader.
8: [Africaans] a gesture of welcome to a stranger.
9: a ship cut down by reducing the number of decks.
10: a two-masted fishing boat of Norway, circa 1500.
11: a person with a badly deformed hand, or the hand itself.
12: a type of paisley print featuring three dominant colors.
13: an ethnic population in Afghanistan noted for their horsemanship.
14: _Obs._ a person who has had one or more fingers removed as a
punishment.
15: an appellation for distinctive, colorful carpets of the
Cappadocia region of Turkey.
16: an Indian sweet dish consisting of curd cheese mixed with sugar,
almonds, saffron, and cardamom.
17: (_Hindi_) a situation in which two different consciousnesses take
turns living in two different bodies.
18: a poisonous snake of the American southwest desert. Its markings
in tans and browns render it almost invisible in its desert habitat.
19: a piece of cloth hanging from the back of a pith helmet or a kepi
that protects the neck from sun-stroke [Hindi: fr. shikari - game
hunter]
20: _obs._ an Indian prince or important court official [Hindi, _sri
khanda_ 'exalted sword', the approved salutation in letters from
civil servants of the Raj to subject princes]
defs seem beleievable to me. Here are 20 defs of the word SHRIKHAND,
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
19:00 UTC on Friday 17th November, which is ...
2:00 PM EST
11:00 AM PST, 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
Have fun!
-- Tim L
** SHRIKHAND **
1: deft, nimble.
2: the white tiger.
3: a large bird of Madagascar.
4: [Dutch] stenography; shorthand.
5: (Naut.) the keeper of the grog.
6: a temporary shelter used by nomads in Nepal.
7: second rate politician or incompetent leader.
8: [Africaans] a gesture of welcome to a stranger.
9: a ship cut down by reducing the number of decks.
10: a two-masted fishing boat of Norway, circa 1500.
11: a person with a badly deformed hand, or the hand itself.
12: a type of paisley print featuring three dominant colors.
13: an ethnic population in Afghanistan noted for their horsemanship.
14: _Obs._ a person who has had one or more fingers removed as a
punishment.
15: an appellation for distinctive, colorful carpets of the
Cappadocia region of Turkey.
16: an Indian sweet dish consisting of curd cheese mixed with sugar,
almonds, saffron, and cardamom.
17: (_Hindi_) a situation in which two different consciousnesses take
turns living in two different bodies.
18: a poisonous snake of the American southwest desert. Its markings
in tans and browns render it almost invisible in its desert habitat.
19: a piece of cloth hanging from the back of a pith helmet or a kepi
that protects the neck from sun-stroke [Hindi: fr. shikari - game
hunter]
20: _obs._ an Indian prince or important court official [Hindi, _sri
khanda_ 'exalted sword', the approved salutation in letters from
civil servants of the Raj to subject princes]