[Dixonary] Rnd 1629: gutturotetany DEFS UP!

[Dodi Schultz]

#10 and #13, with no confidence whatever (please tell us that you
inadvertently omitted the real def!).

--Dodi

[Daniel B. Widdis]

Dodi Schultz wrote:
>
> #10 and #13, with no confidence whatever
Well, that's interesting. I see three votes in email but no def list
yet. Guess it'll show up when it's good and ready. :)

--
Dan

[Toni Savage]

3 and 4 please
Toni

--- Bill Hirst <billhirst (AT) comcast (DOT) net> wrote:

> Here they are, 20 fake and one real definition for
> guttrotetany,
> slighly edited for grammar, consistency and human
> decency. Don't look
> up the word yet, just vote publicly (by reply to
> this message) before
> 1:00 am Sunday (Eastern Time), or Sunday at 0500
> Zulu (GMT), or
> 10:00pm Saturday LaLa time.
>
>
> 1. Gradual dripping.
>
> 2. A disease of the spine.
>
> 3. A spasm in the throat causing stutter.
>
> 4. A tossing, twitching or jerking of the body; a
> false
> claim.
>
> 5. A cramp or spasm in the calf muscle (Colloq.
> charlie
> horse).
>
> 6. The act of sending a case from appellate court
> back to
> trial court.
>
> 7. The science or art of engraving microscopic
> inscriptions, often inside rings.
>
> 8. A sculpting technique of building up a
> bas-relief from
> layers of a soft plaster.
>
> 9. An onomatopoetic word coined by Rudyard Kipling
> to
> describe the sounds of battle.
>
> 10. The act of spitting out or spraying particles
> of
> saliva while speaking forcefully.
>
> 11. An invariably fatal disease of horses caused by
> renal
> paralysis; Garner's syndrome.
>
> 12. [Medicine] A minimally-invasive procedure,
> developed
> in 1987, to remove the gall bladder.
>
> 13. The process by which water is exuded from the
> leaves
> of a plant as a result of root pressure.
>
> 14. The noise made when someone uses a big fat
> belly
> (one's own or some consenting other) as a drum.
>
> 15. The reflexive tightening of tracheal muscles
> near the
> larynx that is associated with strong emotion.
>
> 16. Architecture. One of a series of small
> ornaments in
> the shape of truncated cones used on a Doric
> entablature.
>
> 17. The process of making long narrow excavations
> in the
> ground by digging; i.e. ditches for laying pipe and
> wires.
>
> 18. A term applied to those laws which are imposed
> on us
> from without, or the violence done to us by our
> passions,
> wants, or desires.
>
> 19. [Med.] A syndrome in which the lower jaw is
> lowered
> and does not meet the upper jaw, usually due to
> malformation
> of the transmandibular joint.
>
> 20. A pseudo-Latin term for tetanus (or lockjaw),
> invented
> by the standup comedian Steve Harvey. "After my wife
> left
> me, the only thing I had was my gutturotetany!"
>
> 21. A technique among opera singers of lowering the
> larynx
> so as to produce the "singers' formant" [L. _guttus_
> throat
> + _tetanus_ stretched, fm Gk _tetanos_, fm _teinein_
> to
> stretch].
>
> -Bill
>
>
>
>


-- Toni Savage

[Frances Wetzstein]

13 and 21, please

[Bill Hirst]

That would be the first 10 (binary) of the 11 (binary) numbered
definitions. The other definitions just have some Arabic squiggle in
front of them, not numbers at all.

-Bill


--- In coryphaeus (AT) yahoogroups (DOT) com, Chris Carson <ccarson@i...> wrote:
> Actually no, I'm voting for the binary numbers not the binary values.
> (That's my story and I'm sticking to it).
>
> Chris
>