Round 3048 BROKALY Defs - Vote Now!

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Tim Lodge

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Feb 5, 2020, 5:31:50 PM2/5/20
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Here we have 14 imaginative defs of the word BROKALY, only one of which comes from my dictionary.  Please vote for your two favoutites by public reply to this message before the deadline, which is:

        10:00 UTC/GMT on Friday 7th February
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        21:00 AEDT in Melbourne
        23:00 NZDT in New Zealand


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 *** BROKALY ***

 1.                 a stone quarry.

 2.                 coarse; uncouth.

 3.                 a cinnamon pastry [Pol.]

 4.                 a mild white Dutch cheese.

 5.                 [Obs.] a fragment of food.

 6.                 topographically rough; uneven.

 7.                 with forethought; conscientiously.

 8.                 a coarse homespun cotton cloth from India.

 9.                 anything which has been fragmented or broken.

10.               a rather vigorous Scottish dance in 2/4 time.

11.               (Naut.) A covering or porch for a companion hatch.

12.               a brushed cotton fabric used for petticoats, chemises etc.

13.               the fine, soft, light-brown inner layer of hair of the musk ox.

14.               braided or woven gold cord worn as decoration in military dress.

Debbie

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Feb 5, 2020, 8:33:35 PM2/5/20
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12 and 14 please

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Judy Madnick

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Feb 5, 2020, 9:42:06 PM2/5/20
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Two very different choices:

 
3.  a cinnamon pastry [Pol.]
and
8. a coarse homespun cotton cloth from India.
 
Judy Madnick
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stamps

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Feb 5, 2020, 11:08:14 PM2/5/20
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I will guess at 4 and 5.

Daniel B Widdis

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Feb 6, 2020, 12:56:27 AM2/6/20
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3 and 4 because I’m hungry, and 5 isn’t nearly enough

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Johnb - co.uk

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Feb 6, 2020, 5:10:54 AM2/6/20
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I'm going to go for both the fragments; #5 and #9

apologies to Dan for mis-posting this to him earlier

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Tim B

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Feb 6, 2020, 11:51:38 AM2/6/20
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3 and 5, please.

Best wishes,
Tim Bourne.

Shani Naylor

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Feb 6, 2020, 6:13:50 PM2/6/20
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1 & 4 for me. 



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Stephen Dixon

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Feb 6, 2020, 8:00:34 PM2/6/20
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Six sounds possible, and I like the idea of the Scottish dance.

6 & 10

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Efrem G Mallach

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Feb 6, 2020, 11:25:48 PM2/6/20
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Having eliminated all the others, I'll vote for 3 and 10. I'd better vote fast before I eliminate them too!

Efrem

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On Feb 5, 2020, at 5:31 PM, Tim Lodge <d...@timlodge.co.uk> wrote:

Here we have 14 imaginative defs of the word BROKALY, only one of which comes from my dictionary.  Please vote for your two favoutites by public reply to this message before the deadline, which is:

        10:00 UTC/GMT on Friday 7th February
        11:00 CET
         5:00 AM EST
         2:00 AM PST
        21:00 AEDT in Melbourne
        23:00 NZDT in New Zealand


New players are welcome - just don't look up the word until after you've voted.

My usual email seems to be working again.

--  Tim L

 *** BROKALY ***

 3.                 a cinnamon pastry [Pol.]

 

10.               a rather vigorous Scottish dance in 2/4 time.


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