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Old November 30th, 2019, 08:18 PM
Shani Naylor
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Default Re: [Dixonary] Round 3031: Vote for GRUBBLE

One noun & one verb for me - 2 & 13

2. To climb, bare-handed and without equipment, over a sheer rock face.

13. Thin dry scales or scabs on the body; thin scales exfoliated from the
body; dandruff.





On Sun, Dec 1, 2019 at 5:49 AM Daniel B Widdis <widdis (AT) dixonary (DOT) net> wrote:

> Greetings from pierside in Ensenada, where I have successfully escaped the
> overcast darkness of Seattle to find myself in sunshine and clear blue
> skies! Holiday escape successful!
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> As for those of you still trapped in late Autumn’s clutches (players down
> under excepted) here are a baker’s dozen definitions for GRUBBLE. Please
> vote for two, by public reply to this message, before the deadline just
> over 35 hours from now, at 11:00 PM EST on Sunday, December 01, 2019, or
> 8:00 PM PST. That’s the middle of the night Monday morning in Europe and
> Monday early afternoon in Oceania. I’m on vacation and the beach is
> calling, so exact time zone conversions are left as an exercise for the
> reader.
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> 1. to obsessively question anything given to you to eat [modified from
> Ger. *grubeln* to brood]
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> 2. To climb, bare-handed and without equipment, over a sheer rock face.
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> 3. Permeable broken stone backfilling a retaining wall.
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> 4. Fishing for catfish using only bare hands.
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> 5. The song thrush, *Turdus philomelos*.
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> 6. To feel or grope in the dark.
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> 7. To filch or steal.
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> 8. to grasp; to seize.
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> 9. [Printing] Pi from headline fonts.
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> 10. to use substandard building materials.
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> 11. to search untidily through many items; to rummage.
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> 12. an echo of distant thunder caused by an air inversion.
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> 13. Thin dry scales or scabs on the body; thin scales exfoliated from the
> body; dandruff.
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