Round 3154 PLUNKET Defs - Vote Now!
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Tim Lodge
Mar 29, 2021, 6:09:01 AM3/29/21
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Here we have 12 imaginative defs of the word PLUNKET, 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:
20:00 UTC/GMT on Tuesday 30th March
21:00 BST in London
22:00 CET in France and the Netherlands
4:00 PM EST in New York
1:00 PM PST in California
09:00 NZDT on Wednesday 31st in New Zealand
-- Tim L
*** PLUNKET ***
1. a child's comfort blanket.
2. the weight on a fishing line
3. an unpromising, silly, or useless person.
4. a variety of brine-cured Canadian cheese.
5. [Obs.] a sparkling white wine [< F _blanquette_]
6. [Thieves Cant] a false coin or slug ( Fr. _planchet_]
7. (Naut.) a tackle composed of two single blocks and a fall.
8. a light greyish-blue colour; a dye of this colour. _Obsolete._
9. a traditional children's dessert, probably similar to the "curds and whey" of the old nursery rhyme.
10. A heavily embroidered double-breasted waistcoat, popularised by the Regency era dandy Lord Plunket.
11. (Western U.S. slang) a particularly large gambling bet; poss. der. from the sound of a large gold coin or nugget hitting the table.
12. A distance equal to exactly 5 feet 9-1/2 inches, created in 1959 when Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity members at Harvard decided to use pledge Thomas Plunket as a unit of measurement in response to MIT's creation of the "smoot" the previous year, which used the height of Oliver Smoot (class of 1962) to measure the length of a bridge.
20:00 UTC/GMT on Tuesday 30th March
21:00 BST in London
22:00 CET in France and the Netherlands
4:00 PM EST in New York
1:00 PM PST in California
09:00 NZDT on Wednesday 31st in New Zealand
New players are welcome - just don't look up the word until after you've voted.
-- Tim L
*** PLUNKET ***
1. a child's comfort blanket.
2. the weight on a fishing line
3. an unpromising, silly, or useless person.
4. a variety of brine-cured Canadian cheese.
5. [Obs.] a sparkling white wine [< F _blanquette_]
6. [Thieves Cant] a false coin or slug ( Fr. _planchet_]
7. (Naut.) a tackle composed of two single blocks and a fall.
8. a light greyish-blue colour; a dye of this colour. _Obsolete._
9. a traditional children's dessert, probably similar to the "curds and whey" of the old nursery rhyme.
10. A heavily embroidered double-breasted waistcoat, popularised by the Regency era dandy Lord Plunket.
11. (Western U.S. slang) a particularly large gambling bet; poss. der. from the sound of a large gold coin or nugget hitting the table.
12. A distance equal to exactly 5 feet 9-1/2 inches, created in 1959 when Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity members at Harvard decided to use pledge Thomas Plunket as a unit of measurement in response to MIT's creation of the "smoot" the previous year, which used the height of Oliver Smoot (class of 1962) to measure the length of a bridge.
Johnb - co.uk
Mar 29, 2021, 6:20:50 AM3/29/21
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Paul Keating
Mar 29, 2021, 6:21:18 AM3/29/21
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3 & 8 for me.
P
Judy Madnick
Mar 29, 2021, 8:18:43 AM3/29/21
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6. [Thieves Cant] a false coin or slug ( Fr. _planchet_]
and
11. (Western U.S. slang) a particularly large gambling bet; poss. der. from the sound of a large gold coin or nugget hitting the table.
Judy Madnick
France International/Mike Shefler
Mar 29, 2021, 9:13:07 AM3/29/21
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It may be childish of me, but I'll vote for 1 and 9.
Debbie
Mar 29, 2021, 9:40:25 AM3/29/21
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1 and 12
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Tim B
Mar 29, 2021, 2:04:36 PM3/29/21
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3 and 4, please.
Best wishes,
Tim Bourne.
Best wishes,
Tim Bourne.
amal...@comcast.net
Mar 29, 2021, 2:08:40 PM3/29/21
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Tim – for no particular reason, I’ll go with 2 and 9.
Alan
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Shani Naylor
Mar 29, 2021, 3:54:43 PM3/29/21
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6 & 11 for me.
Daniel B Widdis
Mar 30, 2021, 2:08:16 AM3/30/21
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I’ll have some wine and cheese, please.
4 and 5.
From: Dixonary <dixo...@googlegroups.com> on behalf of Tim Lodge <d...@timlodge.co.uk>
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Date: Monday, March 29, 2021 at 3:09 AM
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Subject: [Dixonary] Round 3154 PLUNKET Defs - Vote Now!
Here we have 12 imaginative defs of the word PLUNKET, 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:
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Tony Abell
Mar 30, 2021, 9:51:09 AM3/30/21
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I'll take 10 and 12, the latter for creativity:
> 10. A heavily embroidered double-breasted waistcoat, popularised by the
> Regency era dandy Lord Plunket.
Efrem G Mallach
Mar 30, 2021, 2:12:08 PM3/30/21
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I'll go with the French: 5 and 6, please.
Efrem
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On Mar 29, 2021, at 6:09 AM, Tim Lodge <d...@timlodge.co.uk> wrote:
Here we have 12 imaginative defs of the word PLUNKET, 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:
20:00 UTC/GMT on Tuesday 30th March
21:00 BST in London
22:00 CET in France and the Netherlands
4:00 PM EST in New York
1:00 PM PST in California
09:00 NZDT on Wednesday 31st in New ZealandNew players are welcome - just don't look up the word until after you've voted.
-- Tim L
*** PLUNKET ***
5. [Obs.] a sparkling white wine [< F _blanquette_]
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