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Old February 19th, 2020, 09:11 AM
Mike Shefler
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Default [Dixonary] Round 3051 vote for howskelly

Here are 13 definitions for HOWSKELLY (who is doing fine, at last report).
Vote for your 2 favorites no later than 5 PM EST, Thursday, February 20.

1. a random, miscellaneous mixture.

2. [Obs.] a malingerer (named after Midshipman Howskelly, the infamous
malingerer from the James Fenimore Cooper novella of the same name).

3. a signal of fire that calls comrades to arms in a time of trouble.

4. [Scot.] a peat scuttle.

5. a metal pot or kettle used in camp cooking.

6. a utensil for baling water out of a boat.

7. a term originating in Vaudeville for a category of jokes and brief
sketches concerning a missing friend (e.g. "How's Kelly? "Ach, he was
so snockered last night that he never made it home. Walked straight
to the jailhouse.")

8. any of various succulent plants having leaves arranged in rosettes
with pinkish flowers and often cultivated as garden plants that have
traditionally been grown on roofs in Europe.

9. [Yorks. sl., Obs.] a device for controlling the flow of liquid from a
pipe to the outside of a building by opening or closing an orifice.

10. [Pa. Dutch] warm, inviting, of a home; from Ger. haus, home; and
kelig, cuddly.

11. [Obs.] a kind of dulcimer.

12. {Scot.] easily provoked to anger or resentment; prone to anger.

13. a small unpopulated island or large rock.


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