Round 3199 vote for GRINDADRAP

[Mike Shefler]

Here are 11 definitions for GRINDADRAP, one of which came from a respectable dictionary.

Vote for your two favorites no later than 5 PM EDT, Thursady, September 30.

1.  a traditional whale hunt in the Faroe islands; pilot whales are

herded into small inlets and speared.

2.  [Gael.] one who regularly absconds from a pub without paying their

bill.

3.  a convoluted ridge between two grooves.

4.  a linen cloth decorated with images printed from a copper plate.

5.  an Indonesian dried gourd used as a percussion instrument.

6.  in Scandinavian folklore, a creature who lives in burrows under open

fields, catching and eating unattended goats, smaller animals, and

occasionally small children.

7.  the instinct to seek familiar forms in disordered images like clouds

or constellations; the perception of random stimulus as significant.

8.  a commotion or fuss; a kerfuffle.

9.  an Icelandic word (lit. ‘gate murder’) coined in a 2012 for ‘drive-by

shooting’, a thing previously unknown; by extension, any undesirable

cultural import.

10.  a tube of strong linen, about an inch in diameter, filled with powder

and used in firing mines.

11.  a kind of burlesque, serenade, or mock-music, made with pots,

kettles, frying-pans, shouting, screaming, &c., at or near the doors

and windows of old people who marry a second time; especially old

women and widows who marry young men.

[Debbie Embler]

4 and 6

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[Paul Keating]

I'll take the first two Scandinavian ones: 1 & 6.

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[Judy Madnick]

Since I have no clue, I'll take 1 and 11.

 

Judy Madnick

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Subject: [Dixonary] Round 3199 vote for GRINDADRAP

Here are 11 definitions for GRINDADRAP, one of which came from a respectable dictionary.

Vote for your two favorites no later than 5 PM EDT, Thursady, September 30.

1.  a traditional whale hunt in the Faroe islands; pilot whales are

herded into small inlets and speared.

2.  [Gael.] one who regularly absconds from a pub without paying their

bill.

[Fein, Deborah]

1 and 9, please.

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Deborah Fein, Ph.D.
UConn Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor
Department of Psychological Sciences
Department of Pediatrics
University of Connecticut
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[Shani Naylor]

Some great defs here. I'll vote 8 & 10.

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[Ann Druce]

6 and 7

 

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[Tim Lodge]

Not a clue, as usual, so I'll try 1 and 8.

          1.  a traditional whale hunt in the Faroe islands; pilot whales are herded into small inlets and speared.

          8.  a commotion or fuss; a kerfuffle.

--  Tim L

[Efrem G Mallach]

It does sound Scandinavian, doesn't it? I'll take one of those and the last one, alleging that a vote for the last def proves I read through all of them - though it doesn't. So, 9 (despite the grammatical error, which could have come in during manual transcription) and 11.

Efrem

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On Sep 29, 2021, at 11:24 AM, 'Mike Shefler' via Dixonary <dixo...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Here are 11 definitions for GRINDADRAP, one of which came from a respectable dictionary.

Vote for your two favorites no later than 5 PM EDT, Thursady, September 30.

9.  an Icelandic word (lit. ‘gate murder’) coined in a 2012 for ‘drive-by shooting’, a thing previously unknown; by extension, any undesirable cultural import.

[Ryan McGill]

After reading through a few times and eliminating all the entries with potential etymologies that were just a smidge too plausible, as well as what reads to me like the definition of pareidolia, I'm left with two very interesting definitions (one of which is very popular, the other entirely unacknowledged) and one completely ludicrous definition—all three of which are most likely completely correct. And then there are two definitions involving linen, which I can only imagine exist because their authors read the last A of the word as in "drape",  what I was taught to call a "long A", which I never understood because the length is the same, the shape is just different—fuller, maybe. Learning linguistic terms for human mouth sound has helped me understand the dang language so much better; and I still have quite a long way to go there. Anyway, I imagined the word to have a short A there, so I will give my votes to those two who thought differently than I and dared to be linenists in the English-speaking world.

4 and 10. I'm voting for 4 & 10.