[Dixonary] Round 2168: GLUTTER [Definition List]

[Paul Keating]

Our inventive players have concocted all but one of the 19 definitions
for GLUTTER presented below for your
edification and entertainment. The remaining definition is, believe it
or not, real.

Please vote for the two you think the best, for some value (or values)
of "good" that seems appropriate to you (such as plausible,
politically correct, embarrassing, witty, implausible, long, or as
chosen by a random number
generator). You can do this whether or not you have submitted a
definition, and whether or not you have played
before. You're not allowed to vote if you know the right answer.

Vote by public reply to this message, by the deadline, which is on
Thursday 30 December 2010 at

09:30 PST (in the morning)
10:30 MST
11:30 CST
12:30 EST
17:30 GMT/UTC
18:30 CET for me

and on Friday 31 December 2010 at

04:30 EDT in Melbourne.

1. a tinsmith

2. tinsel sheddings

3. to burn weakly or unevenly

4. fine sand used to scrape vellum

5. flickering light given off by glowing embers

6. a large mackerel or herring, lightly smoked and salted

7. the portion of a pair of glasses that goes across the
nose

8. a suspended bucket for holding molten brass to be
poured into a mold

9. to admire (a woman) from a distance without letting
one's interest be known

10. someone who makes money out of an expected or actual
surplus of some commodity, either by selling short
before the surplus becomes apparent, or by buying
cheaply and holding stock to sell later at more normal
prices

11. a word with two or more juxtaposed gutterals [origin
possibly onomatopoeic]

12. the dross that is skimmed off molten metal, most
particularly typemetal

13. a light two-wheeled one-horse car, formerly widely
used in Ireland

14. a pad or cushion used by rowers for seat-related
comfort

15. a toothed tool for removing seeds from flax or hemp

16. an early and now obsolete type of golf club

17. to indulge oneself in luxury

18. _Obs._ giblets, entrails

19. splutter

[Daniel B. Widdis]

10 and 12 please

--
Dan

[Millie Morgan]

Maybe it's best not to think too long and hard ...
so ... 3 and 19 for me thanks Paul

> 3. to burn weakly or unevenly
> 19. splutter


Best wishes
Millie

[Tim Lodge]

For want of any better ideas, I vote for:

> *1. a tinsmith
>
> 13. a light two-wheeled one-horse car, formerly widely
> * * used in Ireland

-- Tim L

[John Barrs]

Golly, there are at least a dozen that seem possible and of those nearly all
are likley so it really is toss-em-up-in the air and see which ones come
down face up...(or face down)

Well, that didn't help so .. I'll go marginally Scottish for #6 and #16
please

JohnnyB


> 6. a large mackerel or herring, lightly smoked and salted
>
>
> 16. an early and now obsolete type of golf club
>
>

[Dodi Schultz]

I'll opt for

> 6. a large mackerel or herring, lightly smoked and salted
>

and

> 18. _Obs._ giblets, entrails
>

—Dodi

[Guerri Stevens]

I vote for 1 and 12.

Guerri

Paul Keating wrote:
>
> 1. a tinsmith
>
> 12. the dross that is skimmed off molten metal, most
> particularly typemetal

[Judy Madnick]

<< 4. fine sand used to scrape vellum

<< 12. the dross that is skimmed off molten metal, most
<< particularly typemetal

Judy Madnick

[France International]

I'll go for 1 and 6.

[EnDash@aol.com]

I'll vote for numbers 3 and 10.

3. to burn weakly or unevenly


10. someone who makes money out of an expected or actual
surplus of some commodity, either by selling short
before the surplus becomes apparent, or by buying
cheaply and holding stock to sell later at more normal
prices



-- Dick Weltz

[Tim B]

13 and 15, please.

Best wishes,
Tim B.

[Dave Cunningham]

13 and 17 as prime examples of definitions

Dave

On Dec 29, 2:14*am, Paul Keating <keat... (AT) acm (DOT) org> wrote:
> Our inventive players have concocted all but one of the 19 definitions
> for GLUTTER presented below for your
> edification and entertainment. The remaining definition is, believe it
> or not, real.
>
> Please vote for the two you think the best, for some value (or values)
> of "good" that seems appropriate to you (such as plausible,
> politically correct, embarrassing, witty, implausible, long, or as
> chosen by a random number
> generator). You can do this whether or not you have submitted a
> definition, and whether or not you have played
> before. You're not allowed to vote if you know the right answer.
>
> Vote by public reply to this message, by the deadline, which is on
> Thursday 30 December 2010 at
>
> * * 09:30 PST (in the morning)
> * * 10:30 MST
> * * 11:30 CST
> * * 12:30 EST
> * * 17:30 GMT/UTC
> * * 18:30 CET for me
>
> and on Friday 31 December 2010 at
>
> * * 04:30 EDT in Melbourne.
>
> *1. a tinsmith
>
> *2. tinsel sheddings
>
> *3. to burn weakly or unevenly
>
> *4. fine sand used to scrape vellum
>
> *5. flickering light given off by glowing embers
>
> *6. a large mackerel or herring, lightly smoked and salted
>
> *7. the portion of a pair of glasses that goes across the
> * * nose
>
> *8. a suspended bucket for holding molten brass to be
> * * poured into a mold
>
> *9. to admire (a woman) from a distance without letting
> * * one's interest be known
>
> 10. someone who makes money out of an expected or actual
> * * surplus of some commodity, either by selling short
> * * before the surplus becomes apparent, or by buying
> * * cheaply and holding stock to sell later at more normal
> * * prices
>
> 11. a word with two or more juxtaposed gutterals [origin
> * * possibly onomatopoeic]
>
> 12. the dross that is skimmed off molten metal, most
> * * particularly typemetal
>
> 13. a light two-wheeled one-horse car, formerly widely
> * * used in Ireland
>
> 14. a pad or cushion used by rowers for seat-related
> comfort
>
> 15. a toothed tool for removing seeds from flax or hemp
>
> 16. an early and now obsolete type of golf club
>
> 17. to indulge oneself in luxury
>
> 18. _Obs._ giblets, entrails
>
> 19. splutter

[Toni Savage]

I glutter to 11 as a reward for spelling, and 13 just because.
*-- Toni Savage



----- Original Message ----
From: Paul Keating <keating (AT) acm (DOT) org>
To: Dixonary <dixonary (AT) googlegroups (DOT) com>
Sent: Wed, December 29, 2010 2:14:34 AM
Subject: [Dixonary] Round 2168: GLUTTER [Definition List]

Our inventive players have concocted all but one of the 19 definitions
for GLUTTER presented below for your
edification and entertainment. The remaining definition is, believe it
or not, real.

Please vote for the two you think the best, for some value (or values)
of "good" that seems appropriate to you (such as plausible,
politically correct, embarrassing, witty, implausible, long, or as
chosen by a random number
generator). You can do this whether or not you have submitted a
definition, and whether or not you have played
before. You're not allowed to vote if you know the right answer.

Vote by public reply to this message, by the deadline, which is on
Thursday 30 December 2010 at

* * 09:30 PST (in the morning)
* * 10:30 MST
* * 11:30 CST
* * 12:30 EST
* * 17:30 GMT/UTC
* * 18:30 CET for me

and on Friday 31 December 2010 at

* * 04:30 EDT in Melbourne.

1. a tinsmith

2. tinsel sheddings

3. to burn weakly or unevenly

4. fine sand used to scrape vellum

5. flickering light given off by glowing embers

6. a large mackerel or herring, lightly smoked and salted

7. the portion of a pair of glasses that goes across the
* * nose

8. a suspended bucket for holding molten brass to be
* * poured into a mold

9. to admire (a woman) from a distance without letting
* * one's interest be known

10. someone who makes money out of an expected or actual
* * surplus of some commodity, either by selling short
* * before the surplus becomes apparent, or by buying
* * cheaply and holding stock to sell later at more normal
* * prices

11. a word with two or more juxtaposed gutterals [origin
* * possibly onomatopoeic]

12. the dross that is skimmed off molten metal, most
* * particularly typemetal

13. a light two-wheeled one-horse car, formerly widely
* * used in Ireland

14. a pad or cushion used by rowers for seat-related
comfort

15. a toothed tool for removing seeds from flax or hemp

16. an early and now obsolete type of golf club

17. to indulge oneself in luxury

18. _Obs._ giblets, entrails

19. splutter

[Jim Hart]

After rejecting anything to do with glut, gluttony, glimmer, gutter or
golf, of the remainder I'm curiously attracted to the tinsmith and the
mackerel which will cost me 1 and 6.

Jim

[Christopher Carson]

I'll fall for 10 and 13.

Chris