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[Dixonary] Round 3154 PLUNKET Defs - Vote Now!
Here we have 12 imaginative defs of the word PLUNKET, only one of which
comes from my dictionary. Please vote for your two favourites by public reply to this message before the deadline, which is: 20:00 UTC/GMT on Tuesday 30th March 21:00 BST in London 22:00 CET in France and the Netherlands 4:00 PM EST in New York 1:00 PM PST in California 09:00 NZDT on Wednesday 31st in New Zealand New players are welcome - just don't look up the word until after you've voted. -- Tim L *** PLUNKET *** 1. a child's comfort blanket. 2. the weight on a fishing line 3. an unpromising, silly, or useless person. 4. a variety of brine-cured Canadian cheese. 5. [Obs.] a sparkling white wine [< F _*blanquette*_] 6. [Thieves Cant] a false coin or slug ( Fr. _*planchet*_] 7. (Naut.) a tackle composed of two single blocks and a fall. 8. a light greyish-blue colour; a dye of this colour. *_Obsolete*._ 9. a traditional children's dessert, probably similar to the "curds and whey" of the old nursery rhyme. 10. A heavily embroidered double-breasted waistcoat, popularised by the Regency era dandy Lord Plunket. 11. (Western U.S. slang) a particularly large gambling bet; poss. der. from the sound of a large gold coin or nugget hitting the table. 12. A distance equal to exactly 5 feet 9-1/2 inches, created in 1959 when Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity members at Harvard decided to use pledge Thomas Plunket as a unit of measurement in response to MIT's creation of the "smoot" the previous year, which used the height of Oliver Smoot (class of 1962) to measure the length of a bridge. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Dixonary" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to dixonary+unsubscribe (AT) googlegroups (DOT) com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/di...oglegroups.com. |
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