[Dixonary] FUFF is Up! Vote now!

[Toni Savage]

OK-- after oversleeping and then wrestling with AD a bit, I've receieved 17 lovely definitions for FUFF, and they (combinded with the real def) are below.

Please vote for TWO by the deadline of 6am EST Tuesday, Feb 17.

That's 3am Tuesday, Feb 17 PST and 11am Tuesday, 17 Feb. in London. Your mileage and time may vary.

Newcomers welcome, but don't peek in a dictionary!


1. light loosely kitted cloth

2. minor damage to a horse's hoof, usually caused by a small stone.

3. Acronym for Federally Underwritten Foreclosure Fund

4. any soft, resilient material used to cushion and fill space between
bedspring coils. [industry jargon]

5. The front panel of the tunic of a uniform, usually of a different
color than the rest.

6. Wealth or riches, especially when dishonestly acquired.

7. fibrous waste created by the process of spinning cotton into yarn

8. to celebrate exuberantly and boisterously

9. the spitting of a cat: a burst of anger.

10. To stutter or stammer; to utter incoherent sounds. To saunter; to
fumble. Of a sail: To flap idly in the wind.

11. a dessert made by whipping up together jello and cream.

12. Cornish name for the long-tailed tit [Aegithalos caudatus]

13. The biota of a working compost pile.

14. to miscue a billiards shot.

15. a scented powder for wigs.

16. _Scot._ to tease wool.

18. lacework ornamentation on a window.

19. Cottington's swallow of the Pacific Northwest.

-- Toni Savage

[Judy Madnick]

<< 12. Cornish name for the long-tailed tit [Aegithalos caudatus]

<< 19. Cottington's swallow of the Pacific Northwest.

Judy Madnick

[Tim Lodge]

Toni

There were some long-tailed tits in my garden today, and I was never
any good at billiards, so I'll vote for:

12 and 14 please.

-- Tim L

[Tim B]

14 and 18, please.

Best wishes,
Tim B.

[Dodi Schultz]

>> I've receieved 17 lovely definitions for FUFF, and they (combinded
>> with the real def) are below.

I was going to complain that 17 + 1 don't equal 19, the last number on your
list--but I see now that there ARE in fact a total of 18 defs; there just
isn't any #17.

Bypassing the completely discountable, I'll cast votes for the slightly
less incredible #5 and #19.

--Dodi

[Guerri Stevens]

I vote for 7 and 14.

Guerri

[JohnnyB]

I'll cast 2 votes for #17 (I suppose this is an nav = the nad version of
voting)

JohnnyB

[Daniel B. Widdis]

9 and 10 please.

--
Dan

[Dodi Schultz]

>> I'll cast 2 votes for #17 (I suppose this is an nav = the nad
>> version of voting)
>>
>> JohnnyB

HUH? You mean you're Not Voting?

Usually done by, um, Not Voting. I think.

[JohnnyB]

Dodi

As I said, there are differences between our senses of humour (note
spelling<gd&r>) - as Toni has said, I am DQ and that 'vote' is thus invalid
on three grounds: the fact of my DQ, the fact of two votes cast for one
number, and the fact of the number's nonexistence - I am sorry for the
confusion, I thought it would be funny - in fact it still is to me, but now
becoming a bit laboured for a joke that needs explanation is no joke.

JohnnyB

>
> >> I'll cast 2 votes for #17 (I suppose this is an nav = the nad
> >> version of voting)
> >>
> >> JohnnyB
>
> HUH? You mean you're Not Voting?
>
> Usually done by, um, Not Voting. I think.
>

[Dave Cunningham]

5 and 15 for no reasons

On Feb 15, 4:52*pm, Toni Savage <tonicsav... (AT) yahoo (DOT) com> wrote:
> OK-- after oversleeping and then wrestling with AD a bit, I've receieved 17 lovely definitions for FUFF, and they (combinded with the real def) are below.
>
> Please vote for TWO by the deadline of 6am EST Tuesday, Feb 17. *
>
> That's 3am Tuesday, Feb 17 PST and 11am Tuesday, 17 Feb. in London. *Your mileage and time may vary.
>
> Newcomers welcome, but don't peek in a dictionary!
>
> 1. *light loosely kitted cloth
>
> 2. *minor damage to a horse's hoof, usually caused by a small stone.
>
> 3. *Acronym for Federally Underwritten Foreclosure Fund
>
> 4. *any soft, resilient material used to cushion and fill space between
> bedspring coils. [industry jargon]
>
> 5. *The front panel of the tunic of a uniform, usually of a different
> color than the rest.
>
> 6. *Wealth or riches, especially when dishonestly acquired.
>
> 7. *fibrous waste created by the process of spinning cotton into yarn
>
> 8. *to celebrate exuberantly and boisterously
>
> 9. *the spitting of a cat: a burst of anger.
>
> 10. *To stutter or stammer; to utter incoherent sounds. To saunter; to
> fumble. Of a sail: To flap idly in the wind.
>
> 11. *a dessert made by whipping up together jello and cream.
>
> 12. *Cornish name for the long-tailed tit [Aegithalos caudatus]
>
> 13. *The biota of a working compost pile.
>
> 14. *to miscue a billiards shot.
>
> 15. *a scented powder for wigs.
>
> 16. *_Scot._ to tease wool.
>
> 18. *lacework ornamentation on a window.
>
> 19. *Cottington's swallow of the Pacific Northwest.
>
> -- Toni Savage

[EnDash@aol.com]

I take numbers 2 and 14 please.

-- Dick Weltz


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[Bill Hirst]

16 and 19, just to show I read all the way to the end.

-Bill (Not a Dixon, Nixon or even Fred.)

[France International]

I'll vote for 9 and 14.

[Dodi Schultz]

Johnny, it was evident that your voting "twice" for "#17" was intended as a
wry message that you were DQ--but as Toni commented, some of us think that
broadcasting a DQ before the voting ends is a bad idea.

--Dodi

[Tony Abell]

On 2009-02-16 at 05:57 JohnnyB wrote:

> As I said, there are differences between our senses of humour (note
> spelling<gd&r>) - as Toni has said, I am DQ and that 'vote' is thus invalid
> on three grounds: the fact of my DQ, the fact of two votes cast for one
> number, and the fact of the number's nonexistence - I am sorry for the
> confusion, I thought it would be funny - in fact it still is to me, but now
> becoming a bit laboured for a joke that needs explanation is no joke.

Well, *I* thought it was funny!

I don't think there's really any difference in the sense of humo(u)r between the
US and the UK. Even the oft-cited inability to recognize irony on the part of
Americans is unfair. Americans do indeed have a sense of irony, but it's quite
a bit more subtile than the British version.

[Paul Keating]

>> some of us think that broadcasting a DQ before the voting ends is a bad
idea

Yes, but Johnny DQs so often and in so many domains of discourse that a
public DQ from him can hardly be accounted a hint as to the word's meaning;
which is, I take it, the main current objection to DQing in public: if the
game's resident quantum physicist DQs, then the correct def is probably the
subatomic particle.

Though if we're going to carry that view to its logical conclusion, the
voting would have to be secret too. If a def claims a Dutch origin, and
neither I nor Hugo DQ (and if we vote, you know we haven't DQd), then
there's reason to guess that it might not be the correct def.

But a secret ballot would leave us with quite a different game, and one not
nearly so much fun.

--
Paul Keating
The Hague

[Dave Cunningham]

Yet another rationale for my suggestion that instead of "not voting"
one should cheerfully vote for two wrong definitions <g> had one not
DQd to the dealer at the start. Thus even if you know a def is *not*
Dutch, you can vote for it if you value it for creativity or humor.

Dave

On Feb 16, 1:13*pm, Paul Keating <keat... (AT) acm (DOT) org> wrote:
> >> some of us think that broadcasting a DQ before the voting ends is a bad
>
> idea
>
> Yes, but Johnny DQs so often and in so many domains of discourse that a
> public DQ from him can hardly be accounted a hint as to the word's meaning;
> which is, I take it, the main current objection to DQing in public: *if the
> game's resident quantum physicist DQs, then the correct def is probably the
> subatomic particle.
>
> Though if we're going to carry that view to its logical conclusion, the
> voting would have to be secret too. If a def claims a Dutch origin, and
> neither I nor Hugo DQ (and if we vote, you know we haven't DQd), then
> there's reason to guess that it might not be the correct def.
>
> But a secret ballot would leave us with quite a different game, and one not
> nearly so much fun.
>
> --
> Paul Keating
> The Hague

[Chuck]

Toni -

Great word. I'll try -

2. minor damage to a horse's hoof, usually caused by a small stone.

and

19. Cottington's swallow of the Pacific Northwest.

Thanks,

Chuck

[Nancy Shepherdson]

7 and 10 for me, please. undoubtedly wrong.

(I think it's 17, too!)

Nancy

[Paul Keating]

Vox pop says its 14 or 19. Who am I to argue with Pop? He's usually right.

--
Paul Keating
The Hague

[Daniel B. Widdis]

PK> Yes, but Johnny DQs so often and in so many domains of discourse
PK> that a public DQ from him can hardly be accounted a hint as to
PK> the word's meaning;

I would go further and say that when he doesn't DQ, Johnny guesses correctly
so often that a public DQ from him is actually less of a hint of the true
definition than a vote from him, which might be right.

--
Dan

[Tony Abell]

My choices are the strangely believable 6 and 14:

> 6. Wealth or riches, especially when dishonestly acquired.

> 14. to miscue a billiards shot.

[France International]

And if we were allowed to vote even if DQ (although not for the correct
def), then one could probably improve one's average by voting for the two of
the defs that JB did NOT vote for.
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Subject: [Dixonary] Re: FUFF is Up! Vote now!


>
> PK> Yes, but Johnny DQs so often and in so many domains of discourse
> PK> that a public DQ from him can hardly be accounted a hint as to
> PK> the word's meaning;
>
> I would go further and say that when he doesn't DQ, Johnny guesses
correctly
> so often that a public DQ from him is actually less of a hint of the true
> definition than a vote from him, which might be right.
>
> --
> Dan
>
>