Round 3082 results

[Mike Shefler]

Ryan McGill's Yiddis porter was good enough to win the deal. Luckily for Judy Madnick, she didn't guess the correct def.

The humorous def came from the English Dialect Dictionary (1898 edition).

1.  [Origin obsc. Perhaps Eastern European] a layabout, a

good-for-nothing.                                                             

  Submitter: Amallach                 Votes: 3 & 10       0 + 2 =   2

  Voted for by: Madnick; Cunningham

2.  a nosy neighbor.

  Submitter: Abell                    Votes: 4 & 5        0 + 2 =   2

  Voted for by: Emallach; Bourne

3.  a circular volcanic landform resulting from explosive ash eruptions.

  Submitter: Naylor                   Votes: 4 & 12       0 + 2 =   2

  Voted for by: Amallach; Barrs

4.  the act of turning your back on someone to give them privacy.

  Submitter: Kornelis                 Votes: 6 & 9        0 + 3 =   3

  Voted for by: Abell; Naylor; Barrs

5.  a privy near the bow of the vessel.

  Submitter: Widdis                   Votes: 7 & 9        0 + 1 =   1

  Voted for by: Abell

6.  a multi-nozzled fountain.

  Submitter: Embler                   Votes: 8 & 15       0 + 1 =   1

  Voted for by: Kornelis

7.  a religious prophet [originally a spoonerism of 'speaker']

  Submitter: Barrs                    Votes: 3 & 4        0 + 2 =   2

  Voted for by: Widdis; Madnick

8.  a structural, weight-bearing crossbar.

  Submitter: Shepherdson              Votes: 12 & 15      0 + 1 =   1

  Voted for by: Embler

9.  [Yiddish] also PISKER or PIZSKER; one hired or assigned to bear the

burdens of another; [colloq.] a baggage-handler or porter.                    

  Submitter: Mcgill                   Votes: [9] & 15     0 + 6 =   6

  Voted for by: Kornelis; Widdis; [Mcgill]; Lodge; Emallach; Carson;     

                Cunningham

10.  a peach.

  Submitter: Keating                  Votes: *11* & 12    2 + 2 =   4

  Voted for by: Amallach; Lodge

11.  of corn : thin, lean ; used humorously.

  Submitter: Dictionary                Vote: N/A                   D1

  Voted for by: Keating

12.  a pickled herring.

  Submitter: Lodge                    Votes: 9 & 10       0 + 3 =   3

  Voted for by: Naylor; Shepherdson; Keating

13.  [n equestrian competition, a horse jump with two rails of the same

height.                                                                       

  Submitter: Emallach                 Votes: 2 & 9        0 + 0 =   0

  Voted for by:                                                          

14.  something admirable or first-rate.

  Submitter: Carson                   Votes: 9 & 15       0 + 0 =   0

  Voted for by:                                                          

15.  one who is abrupt and curt in manner or speech.

  Submitter: Madnick                  Votes: 1 & 7        0 + 5 =   5

  Voted for by: Embler; Shepherdson; Mcgill; Carson; Bourne

16.  fisherman [SAf, origin uncertain].

  Submitter: Bourne                   Votes: 2 & 15       0 + 0 =   0

  Voted for by:                                                          

     No def: Cunningham               Votes: 1 & 9        0 + 0 =   0

[Ryan McGill]

That's a bizarre real definition.

I'll post the new word in a couple hours.

Rx.