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Daniel Widdis
May 16th, 2007, 12:17 AM
Herewith are sixteen definitions for ARGHNESS, fifteen of which came from the creative minds of our players and one from a dictionary.

Vote for TWO definitions, as a public message (in reply to this one). The voting deadline will be 32 hours from now, at 6am PDT/9am EDT/1300 UTC on Thursday, May 17.

After you vote, have a laugh and visit http://www.arghness.com

Yes, there are two definitions which were obvious candidates for combining. I decided they were different enough to leave them apart.

1: a state of euphoria

2: _Scot._ mystery; obscurity

3: [Irish] a turf-cutting spade

4: sensitivity to radiation from any source

5: [Scots] quality of being pleasant or welcome

6: a weakness in the bowels following a moderate 10-15 pints of Guiness

7: a derogatory title for an orchestra member or section playing too loud, fast, or slow

8: a measure of the degree of frustration engendered by a situation, thing or person whose natural unit is the dammit. Ten dammits (1 decadammit, S.I. symbol dd) are also called one ohshit [deprecated]

9: a measure of the level of frustration or annoyance, ranging from minor (you lost the phone number of that cute barmaid in Tallahassee, or was it San Antonio?) to major (your preteen children are arrested after trashing the Chucky Cheese restaurant while at the neighbor kid's birthday celebration)

10: [Scot.] the promontory at the north end of the Isle of Lewis; any promontory facing a natural arch in the sea

11: a headland with rocks between the tide levels on to which wreckers lured ships

12: an emotional condition combining woe and anger

13: _Obs._ cowardice, pusillanimity, timidity

14: an unresponsiveness to pleasure

15: the quality of being smooth

16: bluff, headland [Gael.]

Tim Lodge
May 16th, 2007, 04:14 AM
Dan

I loved the decadammit, but I'll go for two of the headlands:

10 and 16 please.

-- Tim L

dixonary@siam.co.uk
May 16th, 2007, 04:48 AM
10 and 16, please.

Best wishes,

Tim B

Guerri Stevens
May 16th, 2007, 05:26 AM
I vote for 10 and 11.

Guerri

Judy Madnick
May 16th, 2007, 06:28 AM
<< 4: sensitivity to radiation from any source

<< 13: _Obs._ cowardice, pusillanimity, timidity

Judy Madnick

Dave Cunningham
May 16th, 2007, 06:43 AM
2 and 13 -- special award to 6 (but not a vote) ... I think 13 is our first def ever to try using "pusillanimity" as a word ...

Dave

Toni Savage
May 16th, 2007, 06:53 AM
I'm gonna reward 8 and 9!


--- Daniel Widdis <widdis (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:
>
> 8: a measure of the degree of frustration engendered
> by a situation,
> thing or person whose natural unit is the dammit.
> Ten dammits (1
> decadammit, S.I. symbol dd) are also called one
> ohshit [deprecated]
>
> 9: a measure of the level of frustration or
> annoyance, ranging from
> minor (you lost the phone number of that cute
> barmaid in Tallahassee,
> or was it San Antonio?) to major (your preteen
> children are arrested
> after trashing the Chucky Cheese restaurant while at
> the neighbor kid's
> birthday celebration)
>


-- Toni Savage

Dodi Schultz
May 16th, 2007, 08:43 AM
I haven't seen anyone else's choices yet, but I think I'll take a chance
and put my eggs in very similar baskets: my votes, for #10 and #16.

--Dodi

Wayne Scott, M.D.
May 16th, 2007, 11:20 AM
If anyone drank 10 pints of Guinness at a sitting he'd be dead, not
arghness.
I'll go for 12 and 13, please

If there are no dogs in heaven, then when I die I want to go where they
went.
--Will Rogers

Christopher Carson
May 16th, 2007, 11:57 AM
I'm going to opt for the strange and cast my votes for 7 and 9.

Chris

mshefler
May 16th, 2007, 02:58 PM
I'll fall for 11 and 16.

Nancy Shepherdson
May 16th, 2007, 03:08 PM
I'll cast my votes at 8 and 10. Rewarding cleverness, this time.

Nancy

Bill Hirst
May 16th, 2007, 03:20 PM
I have to vote for the Irish turf spade, #3, and the Scots welcome,
#5.

-Bill

Tony Abell
May 16th, 2007, 07:48 PM
I'll take the prominent Scottish promontory and the bluff Gaelic headland: 10 and 16

Tony Abell
May 16th, 2007, 07:48 PM
I'll take the prominent Scottish promontory and the bluff Gaelic headland: 10 and 16