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Old October 11th, 2019, 09:53 AM
Dave Cunningham
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Default [Dixonary] Rnd 3019 MUNJANDIE Time to vote

3 as "maybe" and 11 for "chutzpah"

Dave


On Wednesday, October 9, 2019 at 11:10:43 PM UTC-4, jo... (AT) john-barrs (DOT) co.uk
wrote:
>
> here are the definitions constructed by our panel and a dictionary -
> please vote publically for 2 of them by 10m CST
> Friday 11th
>
> *JohnnyB*
>
> 1 a soft white cheese made from soured milk
> 2 an obsolete unit of mass in India approximately equal to 4 grains
> (0.259 g). After metrication in the mid-20th century, the unit became
> obsolete
> 3 [India] a bookkeeper; a clerk in an accounting office
> 4 a sling used by porters in the Himalayas
> 5 a large, lizard-like cryptid from Australia which walks on its
> hind legs and has been rumored to feed on eucalyptus when it cannot find
> enough sheep to satisfy its appetites
> 6 a crude log raft
> 7 (Zool.) an excrescence of any form produced on any part of a
> plant by insects or their larvae. They are most commonly caused by small
> Hymenoptera and Diptera which puncture the bark and lay their eggs in the
> wounds
> 8 a Hindu game of territorial conquest played on a 16x16 grid with
> moves governed by the roll of dice
> 9 a temporary state of depression or melancholy
> 10 [Hindi] a vague and constant desire for something that does not
> and probably cannot exist; an indolent dreaming wistfulness
> 11 English words whose origins lie in the Hindi, Urdu or Sanskrit
> language
>


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