Guerri Stevens
November 22nd, 2008, 08:43 AM
Here are 18 definitions, only one of which is real. Vote for TWO
definitions, as a public forum message (in reply to this one), before
the deadline which is:
Sunday, 8:00 p.m. EST
5:00 p.m. PST
Monday, 1:00 a.m. GMT/UTC
etc.
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://groups.google.com/group/Dixonary/web/dixonary-rules
1: a comic mime.
2: a Klein bottle.
3: a small yellow squash.
4: a small gardening tool.
5: a small tile for mosaic.
6: a sash-like belt or cummerbund.
7: cylindrical jar used to hold drugs.
8: a short-cut jacket or sleeved cape.
9: any small plant of the cucumber family
10: a type of speedboat used as a water taxi in Venice
11: a tomato and barley soup popular in Sicily and Naples.
12: a hat more or less in the form of a squash (vaudeville)
13: a kind of sex toy [It., dim. of _zucco_ vegetable marrow]
14: a mottled effect caused by spraying paint over a wet surface.
15: (_It._) A kind of puppet which is manipulated by long thin sticks
rather than by strings.
16: [Jap] bonsai of "fine pine" when the tree was collected from the
slopes of Fujiyama itself [Tsuga seiboldii ssp nana]
17: a Roman Catholic cleric's skullcap: black for a priest, purple for a
bishop, red for a cardinal, and white for the pope.
18: a stiff flaring collar wired to stand up at the back of the head,
worn by men and women in the 16th and early 17th century.
--
Guerri
definitions, as a public forum message (in reply to this one), before
the deadline which is:
Sunday, 8:00 p.m. EST
5:00 p.m. PST
Monday, 1:00 a.m. GMT/UTC
etc.
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://groups.google.com/group/Dixonary/web/dixonary-rules
1: a comic mime.
2: a Klein bottle.
3: a small yellow squash.
4: a small gardening tool.
5: a small tile for mosaic.
6: a sash-like belt or cummerbund.
7: cylindrical jar used to hold drugs.
8: a short-cut jacket or sleeved cape.
9: any small plant of the cucumber family
10: a type of speedboat used as a water taxi in Venice
11: a tomato and barley soup popular in Sicily and Naples.
12: a hat more or less in the form of a squash (vaudeville)
13: a kind of sex toy [It., dim. of _zucco_ vegetable marrow]
14: a mottled effect caused by spraying paint over a wet surface.
15: (_It._) A kind of puppet which is manipulated by long thin sticks
rather than by strings.
16: [Jap] bonsai of "fine pine" when the tree was collected from the
slopes of Fujiyama itself [Tsuga seiboldii ssp nana]
17: a Roman Catholic cleric's skullcap: black for a priest, purple for a
bishop, red for a cardinal, and white for the pope.
18: a stiff flaring collar wired to stand up at the back of the head,
worn by men and women in the 16th and early 17th century.
--
Guerri