[Dixonary] Round 1983 WHIBLIN Defs

[Tim Lodge]

Here are 16 defs of the word WHIBLIN, only one of which is true. Vote
for TWO definitions, as a public forum message (in reply to this one),
before the deadline of:

18:30 UTC on Sunday 1 March
1:30 PM EST
10:30 AM PST


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/4m6ger


1: a blister.

2: [obs.] whey.

3: an empty boaster.

4: a nightclub singer.

5: a mischievous spirit

6: stuffy and conventional.

7: a group of small pots(?) [Chaucer]

8: an oversexed moron or dwarf [Elizabethan]

9: the finest kind of wheaten bread. _Obs._

10: seat with a canopy erected on an elephant's back.

11: a soft leather specially treated with salt and alum.

12: a sliding guide on a reel, which causes the line to wind evenly.

13: a small ghost-like creature said to appear on the day following
Halloween (mostly Irish)

14: a small sprite, traditionally associated with churchyards and
sightings of St Elmo's fire.

15: of doubtful origin and meaning; perh. a slang term denoting
'thingumbob', 'what-d'ye-call-it'.

16: a decorative knob on a drawer or cabinet door, traditionally in
the form of a stylized floral design.

[Guerri Stevens]

I vote for 12 and 16.

Guerri

[EnDash@aol.com]

Numbers 1 and 10 seem highly unlikely to me, so I'll take a chance on them.

-- Dick Weltz


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[Judy Madnick]

<< 2: [obs.] whey.

<< 9: the finest kind of wheaten bread. _Obs._

Judy Madnick

[Daniel B. Widdis]

Voting from Pixie Hollow, I'm magic-bound to vote for 5 and 14.

--
Dan Widdis

[Tim B]

1 and 9, please.

Best wishes,
Tim B.

[Dodi Schultz]

By a probably faulty process of elimination, my choices come down to #1 and
#12.

--Dodi

[Dave Cunningham]

5 and 14 -- sorta similar? All I can think of is "goblin" I
suppose.

Dave


On Feb 28, 4:43*am, Tim Lodge <iel7j... (AT) sneakemail (DOT) com> wrote:
> Here are 16 defs of the word WHIBLIN, only one of which is true. *Vote
> for TWO definitions, as a public forum message (in reply to this one),
> before the deadline of:
>
> * * * * * * * * 18:30 UTC on Sunday 1 March
> * * * * * * * * *1:30 PM EST
> * * * * * * * * 10:30 AM PST
>
> 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
> athttp://tinyurl.com/4m6ger
>
> *1: a blister.
>
> *2: [obs.] whey.
>
> *3: an empty boaster.
>
> *4: a nightclub singer.
>
> *5: a mischievous spirit
>
> *6: stuffy and conventional.
>
> *7: a group of small pots(?) *[Chaucer]
>
> *8: an oversexed moron or dwarf [Elizabethan]
>
> *9: the finest kind of wheaten bread. _Obs._
>
> 10: seat with a canopy erected on an elephant's back.
>
> 11: a soft leather specially treated with salt and alum.
>
> 12: a sliding guide on a reel, which causes the line to wind evenly.
>
> 13: a small ghost-like creature said to appear on the day following
> Halloween (mostly Irish)
>
> 14: a small sprite, traditionally associated with churchyards and
> sightings of St Elmo's fire.
>
> 15: of doubtful origin and meaning; perh. a slang term denoting
> 'thingumbob', 'what-d'ye-call-it'.
>
> 16: a decorative knob on a drawer or cabinet door, traditionally in
> the form of a stylized floral design.

[France International]

A lot of ghosts and spirits. The word even sounds like it might be one of
those. But which one? It couldn't possibly be the oversexed moron, could it?
Or a thingamabob?? Arghh, decisions, decisions. I'll throw darts at
..
..
MraeowwWW!
..
..
Oh, sorry, pussycat, I wasn't looking.

Which reminds me - my father used to get his cat to pick lottery numbers by
putting small pieces of paper on the floor with the numbers written on them
and seeing which ones the cat examined.

He never won anything.

Oh well, enough blathering. I'll vote for 4 and 7.

--Mike

(P.S. No animals were harmed in the making of this product).

[JohnnyB]

Tim

#2 and #14 please

JohnnyB


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[Chuck]

Tim -

A nice collection. I'll be hanging on a trapeze bar when these are
counted, so there will be an hour's delay in my response - on the off
chance that one is called for. In the meantime, I'll throw my
encouragement behind:

3: an empty boaster.

and

15: of doubtful origin and meaning; perh. a slang term denoting
'thingumbob', 'what-d'ye-call-it'.

although the dwarf caught my attention for a moment.

Thanks,

Chuck

[Toni Savage]

7 and 9, I think....

-- Toni Savage


--- On Sat, 2/28/09, Tim Lodge <iel7j001 (AT) sneakemail (DOT) com> wrote:

>
> 7: a group of small pots(?)* [Chaucer]
> >
> 9: the finest kind of wheaten bread. _Obs._
>

[Tony Abell]

The prosaic 1 and believable 5, please:

> 1: a blister.

> 5: a mischievous spirit

[Jim Hart]

I'll try some spirited bread with 5 and 9


- Jim

[Nancy Shepherdson]

I like 1 and numerologically doubling it to 11.

Nancy

[Tim Lodge]

Sorry, Nancy, your vote arrived after the polls had closed.

-- Tim L

On Mar 1, 9:42*pm, Nancy Shepherdson <nancyg... (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:
> I like 1 and numerologically doubling it to 11.
>
> Nancy