Daniel Widdis
July 3rd, 2011, 07:37 PM
Sorry for the delay. The good news is that I realized at the deadline that
I'd missed marking several definitions for input. Thanks Toni for alerting
me to your own missing def in the previous list, which alerted me to four
others! I think I have them all. If not, I'll blame a random player. And
now, on with the show:
Below are 18 definitions for HOLUS-BOLUS, only one of which came from a
dictionary. Please vote for two, by public reply to this message, before the
deadline. Given the Independence Day holiday in the US I'll extend the
deadline through Tuesday morning, a little over 38 hours from now (but close
early if all submitters have voted):
8:00am PDT
11:00 am EDT
15:00 UTC
And 1 am Wednesday in Melbourne.
*** HOLUS-BOLUS ***
1. a kind of stew (?)
2. nonsense, meaningless drivel
3. a crowd noise (hence hullabaloo)
4. wrapped up altogether in a single unit
5. slang term for the baptismal font [holy bowl]
6. in a random or chaotic manner; helter-skelter
7. any concoction of herbs used to treat a medical
condition
8. a curling error committed by a player ignoring the
skip's instructions
9. an early Roman interjection that has become "Hell's
Bells" over the intervening centuries
10. an ancient form of the sport of shot-put, sometimes
played with a sling
11. holus-bolus: concentration of dense mass beneath the
moon's surface
12. a barker's call at the game of three card monte
13. a noisy, disorderly fight or quarrel; a brawl
14. a tumour found in sheep, used in alchemy
15. an alternate word for Hurly-Burly
16. Armenian deep-fried dumplings
17. donnybrook; free-for-all
18. all at once
--
Dan
I'd missed marking several definitions for input. Thanks Toni for alerting
me to your own missing def in the previous list, which alerted me to four
others! I think I have them all. If not, I'll blame a random player. And
now, on with the show:
Below are 18 definitions for HOLUS-BOLUS, only one of which came from a
dictionary. Please vote for two, by public reply to this message, before the
deadline. Given the Independence Day holiday in the US I'll extend the
deadline through Tuesday morning, a little over 38 hours from now (but close
early if all submitters have voted):
8:00am PDT
11:00 am EDT
15:00 UTC
And 1 am Wednesday in Melbourne.
*** HOLUS-BOLUS ***
1. a kind of stew (?)
2. nonsense, meaningless drivel
3. a crowd noise (hence hullabaloo)
4. wrapped up altogether in a single unit
5. slang term for the baptismal font [holy bowl]
6. in a random or chaotic manner; helter-skelter
7. any concoction of herbs used to treat a medical
condition
8. a curling error committed by a player ignoring the
skip's instructions
9. an early Roman interjection that has become "Hell's
Bells" over the intervening centuries
10. an ancient form of the sport of shot-put, sometimes
played with a sling
11. holus-bolus: concentration of dense mass beneath the
moon's surface
12. a barker's call at the game of three card monte
13. a noisy, disorderly fight or quarrel; a brawl
14. a tumour found in sheep, used in alchemy
15. an alternate word for Hurly-Burly
16. Armenian deep-fried dumplings
17. donnybrook; free-for-all
18. all at once
--
Dan