[Dixonary] Round 2062 BRIMBORIUM Defs Up

[Tim Lodge]

I'm sorry that I'm a bit late posting the defs. I bought myself a
new all-singing, all-dancing mobile phone (US Eng: cellphone) this
afternoon, and I got a bit carried away making it sing and dance.
However, I don't think I'm quite ready to use it to post messages to
the game!

Here are 19 clever and imaginative defs of the word BRIMBORIUM, only
one of which came from my dictionary. Vote for TWO definitions, as a
public forum message (in reply to this one), before the deadline:

10:00 GMT/UTC on Sunday 6 December
5:00 AM EST
2:00 AM PST and
21:00 Melbourne time 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/ktw5pq

-- Tim L


*** BRIMBORIUM ***

1: a small sword.

2: a multitude; a throng.

3: a repository for furniture.

4: Hades, or a place of torment.

5: din, as of drums and cymbals.

6: a facility for processing peat.

7: an alchemist's name for a crucible.

8: a ponderous or excessive solemnity.

9: place where water disappears underground.

10: an awkward or socially unacceptable remark.

11: a thing without value or use; trash, nonsense.

12: goobledegook [muttered prayers - fr. L. breviarium ]

13: a collection of very diverse, mostly worthless objects.

14: a room or area set aside for the purpose of taking naps.

15: a shop devoted to cheap goods (fr. Vict. derog. sl. for
_Birmingham_)

16: a mildly hallucinatory drink popular among the Houyhnhnms of
Jonathan Swift's _Gulliver's Travels_.

17: an imaginary chemical which appears in a poem in Lewis Carroll's
Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There.

18: [obs] a compound of Sulfur (brimstone), Boron, and Magnesium used
as a reagent by European alchemists of the 12th Century in efforts to
transmute base metals into precious ones.

19: a program of the Mennonite Central Committee (MCC). It began in
1946, pioneering the concept of "fair trade" by buying crafts directly
from artisans in the developing world and paying a "living wage".

[Hugo Kornelis]

Hi Tim,

That's a nice, diverse collection - and a tough choice!

Here are my picks:

> 11: a thing without value or use; trash, nonsense.

> 15: a shop devoted to cheap goods (fr. Vict. derog. sl. for
> _Birmingham_)

Best, Hugo

[Judy Madnick]

Okay, so I decide to vote for the "worthless" and "cheap" definitions...and there are three of them. <sigh> Now I have to make a choice...which will be these:

<< 13: a collection of very diverse, mostly worthless objects.

<< 15: a shop devoted to cheap goods (fr. Vict. derog. sl. for
<< _Birmingham_)

Judy Madnick

[France International]

I'll try 3 and 5.

[Daniel B. Widdis]

It's gotta be 12 or 14.

--
Dan

[Guerri Stevens]

I vote for 5 and 13.

Guerri

Tim Lodge wrote:
>
> 5: din, as of drums and cymbals.
>
> 13: a collection of very diverse, mostly worthless objects.

[JohnnyB]

Tim

Useless things I guess; so now picking among those options I'll go for #11
ans #15

JohnnyB

>
> 11: a thing without value or use; trash, nonsense.
>
>
> 15: a shop devoted to cheap goods (fr. Vict. derog. sl. for
> _Birmingham_)
>

[Dave Cunningham]

11 and 13 today ...

Dave


On Dec 4, 3:54*pm, Tim Lodge <5sfwiy... (AT) sneakemail (DOT) com> wrote:
> I'm sorry *that I'm a bit late posting the defs. *I bought myself a
> new all-singing, all-dancing mobile phone (US Eng: cellphone) this
> afternoon, and I got a bit carried away making it sing and dance.
> However, I don't think I'm quite ready to use it to post messages to
> the game!
>
> Here are 19 clever and imaginative defs of the word BRIMBORIUM, only
> one of which came from my dictionary. Vote for TWO definitions, as a
> public forum message (in reply to this one), before the deadline:
>
> * * * * * * * * 10:00 GMT/UTC on Sunday 6 December
> * * * * * * * * *5:00 AM EST
> * * * * * * * * *2:00 AM PST and
> * * * * * * * * 21:00 Melbourne time 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
> athttp://tinyurl.com/ktw5pq
>
> -- *Tim L
>
> **** BRIMBORIUM ***
>
> *1: a small sword.
>
> *2: a multitude; a throng.
>
> *3: a repository for furniture.
>
> *4: Hades, or a place of torment.
>
> *5: din, as of drums and cymbals.
>
> *6: a facility for processing peat.
>
> *7: an alchemist's name for a crucible.
>
> *8: a ponderous or excessive solemnity.
>
> *9: place where water disappears underground.
>
> 10: an awkward or socially unacceptable remark.
>
> 11: a thing without value or use; trash, nonsense.
>
> 12: goobledegook [muttered prayers - fr. L. breviarium ]
>
> 13: a collection of very diverse, mostly worthless objects.
>
> 14: a room or area set aside for the purpose of taking naps.
>
> 15: a shop devoted to cheap goods (fr. Vict. derog. sl. for
> _Birmingham_)
>
> 16: a mildly hallucinatory drink popular among the Houyhnhnms of
> Jonathan Swift's _Gulliver's Travels_.
>
> 17: an imaginary chemical which appears in a poem in Lewis Carroll's
> Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There.
>
> 18: [obs] a compound of Sulfur (brimstone), Boron, and Magnesium used
> as a reagent by European alchemists of the 12th Century in efforts to
> transmute base metals into precious ones.
>
> 19: a program of the Mennonite Central Committee (MCC). It began in
> 1946, pioneering the concept of "fair trade" by buying crafts directly
> from artisans in the developing world and paying a "living wage".

[Tim B]

5 and 8, please.

Best wishes,
Tim B.

[Dodi Schultz]

For no particular reason:

> 4: Hades, or a place of torment.

and

> 14: a room or area set aside for the purpose of taking naps.

--Dodi

[EnDash@aol.com]

My guesses are numbers 3 and 16.

-- Dick Weltz


In a message dated 12/4/2009 3:54:30 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
5sfwiyj02 (AT) sneakemail (DOT) com writes:

*** BRIMBORIUM ***

[Scott Crom]

I'll have 7 and 8, please

Scott

[Toni Savage]

8 and 19 please

-- Toni Savage


--- On Fri, 12/4/09, Tim Lodge <5sfwiyj02 (AT) sneakemail (DOT) com> wrote:

> From: Tim Lodge <5sfwiyj02 (AT) sneakemail (DOT) com>
> Subject: [Dixonary] Round 2062 BRIMBORIUM Defs Up
> To: "Dixonary" <dixonary (AT) googlegroups (DOT) com>
> Date: Friday, December 4, 2009, 3:54 PM
> I'm sorry* that I'm a bit late
> posting the defs.* I bought myself a
> new all-singing, all-dancing mobile phone (US Eng:
> cellphone) this
> afternoon, and I got a bit carried away making it sing and
> dance.
> However, I don't think I'm quite ready to use it to post
> messages to
> the game!
>
> Here are 19 clever and imaginative defs of the word
> BRIMBORIUM, only
> one of which came from my dictionary. Vote for TWO
> definitions, as a
> public forum message (in reply to this one), before the
> deadline:
>
> * * * * * * * *
> 10:00 GMT/UTC on Sunday 6 December
> * * * * * * *
> ***5:00 AM EST
> * * * * * * *
> ***2:00 AM PST and
> * * * * * * * *
> 21:00 Melbourne time 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/ktw5pq
>
> --* Tim L
>
>
> *** BRIMBORIUM ***
>
> 1: a small sword.
>
> 2: a multitude; a throng.
>
> 3: a repository for furniture.
>
> 4: Hades, or a place of torment.
>
> 5: din, as of drums and cymbals.
>
> 6: a facility for processing peat.
>
> 7: an alchemist's name for a crucible.
>
> 8: a ponderous or excessive solemnity.
>
> 9: place where water disappears underground.
>
> 10: an awkward or socially unacceptable remark.
>
> 11: a thing without value or use; trash, nonsense.
>
> 12: goobledegook [muttered prayers - fr. L. breviarium ]
>
> 13: a collection of very diverse, mostly worthless
> objects.
>
> 14: a room or area set aside for the purpose of taking
> naps.
>
> 15: a shop devoted to cheap goods (fr. Vict. derog. sl.
> for
> _Birmingham_)
>
> 16: a mildly hallucinatory drink popular among the
> Houyhnhnms of
> Jonathan Swift's _Gulliver's Travels_.
>
> 17: an imaginary chemical which appears in a poem in Lewis
> Carroll's
> Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There.
>
> 18: [obs] a compound of Sulfur (brimstone), Boron, and
> Magnesium used
> as a reagent by European alchemists of the 12th Century in
> efforts to
> transmute base metals into precious ones.
>
> 19: a program of the Mennonite Central Committee (MCC). It
> began in
> 1946, pioneering the concept of "fair trade" by buying
> crafts directly
> from artisans in the developing world and paying a "living
> wage".
>

[Chuck]

Tim -

A nice collection, from which I'll choose -

5: din, as of drums and cymbals.

and

12: goobledegook [muttered prayers - fr. L. breviarium ]

Thanks,

Chuck

[Russ Heimerson]

I'll go for #5 and #11.

Russ

[Chris Carson]

I'll go for 12 and 14.

Chris

Sent from my iPhone


>

[Paul Keating]

I'll follow the crowd making the nonsensical din. 5 and 11.

--
Paul Keating
The Hague