Round 3031: Vote for GRUBBLE

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Daniel B Widdis

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Nov 30, 2019, 11:49:37 AM11/30/19
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Greetings from pierside in Ensenada, where I have successfully escaped the overcast darkness of Seattle to find myself in sunshine and clear blue skies!   Holiday escape successful!

 

As for those of you still trapped in late Autumn’s clutches (players down under excepted) here are a baker’s dozen definitions for GRUBBLE. Please vote for two, by public reply to this message, before the deadline just over 35 hours from now, at 11:00 PM EST on Sunday, December 01, 2019, or 8:00 PM PST.  That’s the middle of the night Monday morning in Europe and Monday early afternoon in Oceania.  I’m on vacation and the beach is calling, so exact time zone conversions are left as an exercise for the reader.

 

1. to obsessively question anything given to you to eat [modified from Ger. grubeln to brood]

 

2. To climb, bare-handed and without equipment, over a sheer rock face.

 

3. Permeable broken stone backfilling a retaining wall.

 

4. Fishing for catfish using only bare hands.

 

5. The song thrush, Turdus philomelos.

 

6. To feel or grope in the dark.

 

7. To filch or steal.

 

8. to grasp; to seize.

 

9. [Printing] Pi from headline fonts.

 

10. to use substandard building materials.

 

11. to search untidily through many items; to rummage.

 

12. an echo of distant thunder caused by an air inversion.

 

13. Thin dry scales or scabs on the body; thin scales exfoliated from the body; dandruff.

Johnb - co.uk

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Nov 30, 2019, 12:09:22 PM11/30/19
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I just have to reward the re-emergence of contained rubble and I guess a jumble sale is also contained rummage so I'll double my bet with #11

so #3 and #11 please

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France International/Mike Shefler

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Nov 30, 2019, 12:39:51 PM11/30/19
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I'll go for 1 and 4.

Tim B

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Nov 30, 2019, 12:45:21 PM11/30/19
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3 and 4, please.

Best wishes,
Tim Bourne.

Tim Lodge

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Nov 30, 2019, 6:15:49 PM11/30/19
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I'll fall for 1 and 9.

1. to obsessively question anything given to you to eat [modified from Ger. grubeln to brood]

9. [Printing] Pi from headline fonts

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Judy Madnick

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Nov 30, 2019, 7:38:41 PM11/30/19
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Let's see if I can continue my run of  0's!
 

10. to use substandard building materials.
11. to search untidily through many items; to rummage.

Judy Madnick
Albany, NY

Debbie

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Nov 30, 2019, 7:41:23 PM11/30/19
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7 and 2 please. 

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Shani Naylor

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Nov 30, 2019, 9:18:41 PM11/30/19
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One noun & one verb for me - 2 & 13

2. To climb, bare-handed and without equipment, over a sheer rock face.

13. Thin dry scales or scabs on the body; thin scales exfoliated from the body; dandruff.





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nancygoat

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Nov 30, 2019, 10:01:22 PM11/30/19
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I got a real laugh out of #1.  

But I'll vote for 11 and 13.

Nancy

Efrem G Mallach

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Nov 30, 2019, 10:20:48 PM11/30/19
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There probably ought to be a word for 9, and perhaps this is it - but I'll cast two bare-handed votes for 2 and 4 anyhow.

On Nov 30, 2019, at 11:49 AM, Daniel B Widdis <wid...@dixonary.net> wrote:

Greetings from pierside in Ensenada, where I have successfully escaped the overcast darkness of Seattle to find myself in sunshine and clear blue skies!   Holiday escape successful!
 
As for those of you still trapped in late Autumn’s clutches (players down under excepted) here are a baker’s dozen definitions for GRUBBLE. Please vote for two, by public reply to this message, before the deadline just over 35 hours from now, at 11:00 PM EST on Sunday, December 01, 2019, or 8:00 PM PST.  That’s the middle of the night Monday morning in Europe and Monday early afternoon in Oceania.  I’m on vacation and the beach is calling, so exact time zone conversions are left as an exercise for the reader.
 
 
2. To climb, bare-handed and without equipment, over a sheer rock face.
  

Johnb - co.uk

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Dec 1, 2019, 6:13:29 AM12/1/19
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Efrem

if you are going to use dixionary, then please do sign your moniker - this appeared as "from Dixonarians" , "to Dixonarians"

it is only by replying to it that I see "On 01/12/2019 03:20, 'Efrem G Mallach' via Dixonary wrote:"

please identify yourself (If only for me)

JohnnyB

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Efrem G Mallach

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Dec 1, 2019, 8:06:55 AM12/1/19
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Sorry; temporary oversight. I generally sign everything. This may be the first time in 700+ rounds that I forgot - or maybe I just forgot the others!

Efrem, who owns up to hacing sent this vote.

Guerri Stevens

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Dec 1, 2019, 2:11:49 PM12/1/19
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I vote for 3 and 10. I'm glad to see the stone wall genre of definitions is back.

On 11/30/2019 11:49 AM, Daniel B Widdis wrote:
 

3. Permeable broken stone backfilling a retaining wall.

 

 

10. to use substandard building materials.


Dave Cunningham

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Dec 1, 2019, 4:15:50 PM12/1/19
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2 and 11 today.  

Dave (fighting horrid cough and losing) 

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Judy Madnick

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Dec 1, 2019, 4:50:59 PM12/1/19
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Dave,
 
I hope it's not the cough that lasts forever and that you feel better fast!
 
Judy
 
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2 and 11 today.  

Dave (fighting horrid cough and losing) 

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Dave Cunningham

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Dec 1, 2019, 5:08:58 PM12/1/19
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Thank you.   My wife is a nurse by profession, and everything sounds worse when a nurse says it <g>

Judy Madnick

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Dec 1, 2019, 6:20:56 PM12/1/19
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Or when I say that I had a cough two years ago that lasted for six weeks? LOL!
 
Judy
 
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Thank you.   My wife is a nurse by profession, and everything sounds worse when a nurse says it

On Sunday, December 1, 2019 at 4:50:59 PM UTC-5, Judy Madnick wrote:
Dave,
 
I hope it's not the cough that lasts forever and that you feel better fast!
 
Judy

 

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Hugo Kornelis

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Dec 1, 2019, 7:01:56 PM12/1/19
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(Merriam-Webster online)
COUGH:

1. a sudden, sharp-sounding expulsion of air from the lungs acting as a protective mechanism to clear the air passages or as a symptom of pulmonary disturbance
2. a condition marked by repeated or frequent coughing.

Gosh, I really hope you mean the second definition....

Cheers,
Hugo


Op 2-12-2019 om 00:20 schreef Judy Madnick:

Benj. Evans

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Dec 1, 2019, 8:50:40 PM12/1/19
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On Saturday, November 30, 2019 at 11:49:37 AM UTC-5, Daniel Widdis wrote:

I came here through Wikipedia and am from Maine. As I am learning German, the "grubeln" one gets an honorable mention; thanks for the new vocab! 


 

2. To climb, bare-handed and without equipment, over a sheer rock face.


Daniel B Widdis

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Dec 1, 2019, 8:53:06 PM12/1/19
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Welcome to the game!

Sent from my iPhone

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Efrem G Mallach

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Dec 1, 2019, 9:05:33 PM12/1/19
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Welcome to Dixonary, Benjamin! Guessing that you're around Orono, it looks like you folks are in for some snow over the next couple of days. Stay safe!

Efrem

Stephen Dixon

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Dec 1, 2019, 9:09:22 PM12/1/19
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Welcome, Benjamin. It’s great to have you join the game.

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Benj. Evans

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Dec 1, 2019, 11:33:13 PM12/1/19
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Thanks for the warm welcome. I am about two hours southwest of uni town Orono,  so perhaps you hit the nail on the head with a glancing blow, Efrem. I am in for some snow; I hope I am in(doors) for it, too!


Judy M.

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Dec 2, 2019, 6:43:52 AM12/2/19
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Another welcome from snowy Albany, NY!

Judy Madnick

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Thanks for the warm welcome. I am about two hours southwest of uni town Orono,  so perhaps you hit the nail on the head with a glancing blow, Efrem. I am in for some snow; I hope I am in(doors) for it, too!


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Guerri Stevens

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Dec 2, 2019, 9:42:37 AM12/2/19
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Fight harder. Put your mind on it. You can do it!

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