Round 3158 GARGYSE Defs -Vote Now!

[Tim Lodge]

Here we have 11 imaginative defs of the word GARGYSE, 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:

        09:00 UTC/GMT on Thursday 15th April
        10:00 BST in London
        11:00 CET in France and the Netherlands
         5:00 AM EST in New York   
         2:00 AM PST in California
        21:00 NZDT in New Zealand

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

--  Tim L

 *** GARGYSE ***

 1.  thick; viscous.
 2.  fountain of youth
 3.  a disease in cattle.
 4.  to refute; to confute .
 5.  (Arch.) A sunken channel or groove, usually vertical.
 6.  (fr. Greek) Grotesque, ill-featured, poorly-fashioned.
 7.  the scars around the eyes that remain after certain infections.
 8.  freedom from disturbance of mind or passion; stoical indifference.
 9.  to talk insincerely; to prevaricate or equivocate in speech or action.
10.  a close-fitting often laced medieval tunic with long skirts and sleeves.
11.  a mythical creature, resembling a huge cat, that haunts the deep woods of Romania.

[Judy Madnick]

Hmmmm...noun, verb, adjective? I'll go with these:

 

1.  thick; viscous.

and

 6.  (fr. Greek) Grotesque, ill-featured, poorly-fashioned.

 

Judy Madnick

[France International/Mike Shefler]

I'll go with 4 and 8.

--Mike

[Johnb - co.uk]

#5 and #6 please

JohnnyB

Virus-free. www.avg.com

[Paul Keating]

4 & 8 for me.

P

[Fein, Deborah]

3 and 6 please. 

Deborah Fein, Ph.D.
UConn Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor
Department of Psychological Sciences
Department of Pediatrics
University of Connecticut
debora...@uconn.edu

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[Debbie]

5 and 7

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[Daniel B Widdis]

I'll stand on my head and vote for 6 and 9.

[Shani Naylor]

1 & 11 for me, for no particular reason.

 1.  thick; viscous.

11.  a mythical creature, resembling a huge cat, that haunts the deep woods of Romania.

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[Tim B]

6 and 10, please.

Best wishes,
Tim Bourne.

[Efrem G Mallach]

6 and 10, for no particular reason except that I eliminated all the others (one of which is surely correct).

Efrem

On Apr 13, 2021, at 4:25 PM, Tim Lodge <d...@timlodge.co.uk> wrote:

Here we have 11 imaginative defs of the word GARGYSE, 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:

        09:00 UTC/GMT on Thursday 15th April
        10:00 BST in London
        11:00 CET in France and the Netherlands
         5:00 AM EST in New York   
         2:00 AM PST in California
        21:00 NZDT in New Zealand

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

--  Tim L

 *** GARGYSE ***

 6.  (fr. Greek) Grotesque, ill-featured, poorly-fashioned.

[amal...@comcast.net]

Much as I like the image of giant tabbies stalking Romanian woods, I don’t buy it. I’ll try 4 and 10 instead.

Alan

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[amal...@comcast.net]

Thank you.

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[Efrem G Mallach]

Turnabout is fair play.

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