[Dixonary] Rnd 1823 JUFFER Defs - Vote Now

[Tim Lodge]

Here are 17 defs of the word JUFFER, only one of which is true. Vote
for TWO definitions, as a public forum message (in reply to this one),
before the deadline

19:00 BST on Monday 9th July
18:00 GMT
2:00 PM EDT
11:00 AM PDT

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



** JUFFER **

1: an understudy.

2: [Aus. slang] to boast.

3: a temporary electrical connector.

4: the lowest timber of a structure.

5: a fighter pilot. [RAF slang, WWII]

6: a small stream [poss. fr. Hindi _jafar_]

7: in India, a light midday meal; luncheon.

8: a riding horse, especially one for a lady.

9: one that is insipid, sentimental, or weak.

10: a familiar or pet name for a daughter-in-law

11: a piece of timber four or five inches square.

12: a person who talks too much. [Australian slang]

13: a sweet, often fruit-flavored, inexpensive wine.

14: a firefighter who jumps by parachute to the edge of a wildfire.

15: a roll of cloth placed at a door's threshold to prevent draughts.

16: _S. Afr., obs._ a female teacher [Du _juffrouw_ 'Miss' (mode of
address)]

17: soil rich in alumina and iron and deficient in carbonates, found
in and characteristic of humid regions.

[Dave Cunningham]

11 and 12 -- no reasoning at all, not even a RNG.

Dave

On Jul 8, 5:07 am, Tim Lodge <iel7j... (AT) sneakemail (DOT) com> wrote:
> Here are 17 defs of the word JUFFER, only one of which is true. Vote

[JohnnyB]

Tim

#8 and #17 please

JohnnyB

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dixonary (AT) googlegroups (DOT) com
> [mailto:Dixonary (AT) googlegroups (DOT) com] On Behalf Of Tim Lodge
> Sent: Sunday, July 08, 2007 10:08 AM
> To: Dixonary
> Subject: [Dixonary] Rnd 1823 JUFFER Defs - Vote Now
>
>
> Here are 17 defs of the word JUFFER, only one of which is
> true. Vote for TWO definitions, as a public forum message
> (in reply to this one), before the deadline
>
> 19:00 BST on Monday 9th July
> 18:00 GMT
> 2:00 PM EDT
> 11:00 AM PDT
>
> 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
>
>
>
> ** JUFFER **
>
> 1: an understudy.
>
> 2: [Aus. slang] to boast.
>
> 3: a temporary electrical connector.
>
> 4: the lowest timber of a structure.
>
> 5: a fighter pilot. [RAF slang, WWII]
>
> 6: a small stream [poss. fr. Hindi _jafar_]
>
> 7: in India, a light midday meal; luncheon.
>
> 8: a riding horse, especially one for a lady.
>
> 9: one that is insipid, sentimental, or weak.
>
> 10: a familiar or pet name for a daughter-in-law
>
> 11: a piece of timber four or five inches square.
>
> 12: a person who talks too much. [Australian slang]
>
> 13: a sweet, often fruit-flavored, inexpensive wine.
>
> 14: a firefighter who jumps by parachute to the edge of a wildfire.
>
> 15: a roll of cloth placed at a door's threshold to prevent draughts.
>
> 16: _S. Afr., obs._ a female teacher [Du _juffrouw_ 'Miss'
> (mode of address)]
>
> 17: soil rich in alumina and iron and deficient in
> carbonates, found in and characteristic of humid regions.
>

[Dodi Schultz]

They all look pretty likely to me. I'll try #3 and #15.

--Dodi

[Judy Madnick]

<< 2: [Aus. slang] to boast ('cuz it's the only verb)
and

<< 5: a fighter pilot. [RAF slang, WWII]

Judy Madnick
Jacksonville, FL

[Toni Savage]

15 because there ought to be such a word, and 16
'cause it's such a great def. (but I bet it's really
17)



>
> 15: a roll of cloth placed at a door's threshold to
> prevent draughts.
>
> 16: _S. Afr., obs._ a female teacher [Du _juffrouw_
> 'Miss' (mode of
> address)]
>

-- Toni Savage
"Failure to plan on your part, does not constitute an emergency on our part"

[Daniel B. Widdis]

6 and 16 please, for the etymology

--
Dan

[Bill Hirst]

6 and 9, for the stream and the insipid, and to get your mind back in
the gutter.


-Bill

[BobStone]

They all sound so right.
I will blindly stab at #7 and #14.

-Bob Stone

[Nancy Shepherdson]

I'll jump on the slang...5 and 12.

Nancy

[dixonary@siam.co.uk]

I'll have 9 and 12, please.

Best wishes,

Tim B

[waynescottmd@earthlink.net]

7 and 8, please.

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


>

[Guerri Stevens]

I vote for 2 and 5.

Guerri

[Tim Lodge]

Tim B

I found your def sitting unread in my Dixonary inbox this morning. I
don't know whether it had been held up and had only just arrived, or
whether I'd just failed to spot it before. Whatever the cause, it was
timestamped well before the deadline, so you have my apologies
and two dealer points.

-- Tim L

[Tony Abell]

Let me try 1 and 9.

[Dodi Schultz]

The distribution system seems to be really slowing down, if what happened
to my vote is any indication.

I dispatched it, according to my records, at 11:22 (EDT) Sunday morning. It
found its way from the group to my mailbox at 2:36 a.m. today (Monday).

--Dodi

[JohnnyB]

Dodi

According to your vote which I received early yesterday morning, yours reached the group at 11:18 (-4) and was dispatched to me at
11:18 (-7)

I received it at 4:18pm Sunday and as we are 5 hours apart that is pretty near instantaneous

So I do not think the delay was the googlegroup software

JohnnyB




> -----Original Message-----
>
> The distribution system seems to be really slowing down, if
> what happened to my vote is any indication.
>
> I dispatched it, according to my records, at 11:22 (EDT)
> Sunday morning. It found its way from the group to my mailbox
> at 2:36 a.m. today (Monday).
>

[Russ Heimerson]

I'll toss my votes at #2 and #15, please.

Russ

[Daniel B. Widdis]

On 7/9/07, Dodi Schultz wrote:
> I dispatched it, according to my records, at 11:22 (EDT) Sunday morning. It
> found its way from the group to my mailbox at 2:36 a.m. today (Monday).

Dodi, the message headers indicate no delay for most of the rest of us:

Received in my mailbox Sun, 08 Jul 2007 08:18:04 -0700 (PDT)
Received into googlegroups Sun, 08 Jul 2007 08:18:02 -0700 (PDT)
Received at compuserve.com Sun, 8 Jul 2007 11:18:01 -0400
Timestamped on your computer Sun, 8 Jul 2007 11:16:36 -0400

You clicked "Send" (or the TAPCIS equivalent) at 11:16am. 85 seconds
later it passed through CompuServe and 3 seconds after that it was in
my mailbox.

They may have been slow sending you back your own copy...

--
Dan Widdis

[Dodi Schultz]

>> > I dispatched [my vote], according to my records, at 11:22 (EDT)
>> Sunday morning. It found its way from the group to my mailbox at
>> 2:36 a.m. today (Monday). <
>>
>> According to your vote which I received early yesterday morning,
>> yours reached the group at 11:18 (-4) and was dispatched to me at
>> 11:18 (-7)
>>
>> I received it at 4:18pm Sunday and as we are 5 hours apart that is
>> pretty near instantaneous
>>
>> So I do not think the delay was the googlegroup software
>>
>> JohnnyB

Why do you think the group got it to you faster than to me?

--Dodi

[Paul Keating]

Because mail from the group comes labelled "Precedence: Bulk".

--
Paul Keating
The Hague

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dodi Schultz" <SCHULTZ (AT) compuserve (DOT) com>

Why do you think the group got it to you faster than to me?

--Dodi

[dixonary@siam.co.uk]

> I found your def sitting unread in my Dixonary inbox this morning. I
> don't know whether it had been held up and had only just arrived, or
> whether I'd just failed to spot it before. Whatever the cause, it was
> timestamped well before the deadline, so you have my apologies
> and two dealer points.
>
Thanks, Tim. I didn't comment because I couldn't find it myself, so I
couldn't be certain it had actually gone!

Best wishes,

Tim B