Tim Lodge
November 29th, 2007, 03:35 PM
We have a good crop of defs for KINAKI - a total of 19, of which only
one is true. Vote for TWO definitions, as a public forum message (in
reply to this one), before the deadline of:
09:30 GMT on Saturday 1st December, which is
4:30 AM EST
1:30 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
-- Tim L
=== KINAKI ===
1: whiteness.
2: [Jap.] the cinema.
3: a dark shade of green.
4: pickled octopus. [Jp.]
5: the Indonesian yellow fox.
6: deliberate evasion of clarity.
7: flat Japanese cushion for kneeling or sitting.
8: a relish; a tasty or savoury addition to a meal.
9: [Fin.] candied fruit used to decorate baked goods.
10: a purple flower of the Phillipines, used in perfume making.
11: a Maori religious platform of stones, bearing a wooden religious
icon.
12: a small, glazed fruit tart, traditionally served in Poland at
Christmas time.
13: a sour South American fruit having greenish-yellow pulp and a
thick fibrous skin.
14: [Maori] members or descendants of the indigenous Polynesian people
of New Zealand.
15: a contrivance for undoing the bolt of a door from the outside; an
imposture or deceit.
16: a storyteller in western Africa who perpetuates the oral tradition
and history of a village or family.
17: culinary herb, the dried leaves of the southern oak; Quercus
australis; which have a peppery taste [Maori = hot]
18: a brightly colored bird in Hawaii, much despised because it eats
the blossoms on pineapple plants and prevents them from developing.
19: a confederacy of various native American peoples inhabiting
northern New England and southeast Canada, formed in the mid-18th
century in opposition to the Iroquois confederacy and the English
colonists.
one is true. Vote for TWO definitions, as a public forum message (in
reply to this one), before the deadline of:
09:30 GMT on Saturday 1st December, which is
4:30 AM EST
1:30 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
-- Tim L
=== KINAKI ===
1: whiteness.
2: [Jap.] the cinema.
3: a dark shade of green.
4: pickled octopus. [Jp.]
5: the Indonesian yellow fox.
6: deliberate evasion of clarity.
7: flat Japanese cushion for kneeling or sitting.
8: a relish; a tasty or savoury addition to a meal.
9: [Fin.] candied fruit used to decorate baked goods.
10: a purple flower of the Phillipines, used in perfume making.
11: a Maori religious platform of stones, bearing a wooden religious
icon.
12: a small, glazed fruit tart, traditionally served in Poland at
Christmas time.
13: a sour South American fruit having greenish-yellow pulp and a
thick fibrous skin.
14: [Maori] members or descendants of the indigenous Polynesian people
of New Zealand.
15: a contrivance for undoing the bolt of a door from the outside; an
imposture or deceit.
16: a storyteller in western Africa who perpetuates the oral tradition
and history of a village or family.
17: culinary herb, the dried leaves of the southern oak; Quercus
australis; which have a peppery taste [Maori = hot]
18: a brightly colored bird in Hawaii, much despised because it eats
the blossoms on pineapple plants and prevents them from developing.
19: a confederacy of various native American peoples inhabiting
northern New England and southeast Canada, formed in the mid-18th
century in opposition to the Iroquois confederacy and the English
colonists.