Round 3068: Vote for IDDY-UMPTY

[Daniel B Widdis]

While my spreadsheet had enough room for many more, it seems that we are left with a dozen player submissions plus the dictionary, giving 13 options for your IDDY-UMPTY vote.  You all know the drill.  Don’t look it up, vote for two, deadline in about 32 ¾ hours at 8am Tuesday PST (11am EST, 1500 UTC, 4pm  BST, 5pm CEST, and Wednesday 1am AEST and 3am NZST).

 

1.            a game of darts in which the numbers 1-20 must be thrown in order three times: first anywhere in the sector, then between the double ring and the triple ring, and finally between the triple ring and the outer bullseye.

 

2.            A version of the children’s game hide-and-seek, in which seekers finding the hider have to join them in the hiding place.

 

3.            [Slang] a signaller [from the rattle of Morse code dit-dum-dit-dum]

 

4.            tile-based castle-building/road-based thievery simulator.

 

5.            outlandish; off the wall. [see Humpty-Dumpty]

 

6.            Left-handed or left-footed.

 

7.            Ridiculous or absurd.

 

8.            a small amount; a smidgen.

 

9.            a busybody; particularly, a spinster.

 

10.          The Morse code; a dot followed by a dash in Morse code.

 

11.          Proceeding with an irregular motion or gait. (N. Amer. sl.)

 

12.          (Eng. Slang, 19th cen.) confused, or in a state of confusion; e.g., ‘my mind went iddy-umpty all of a sudden’.

 

13.          1. Nonsense syllables used to fill out the meter of a half-remembered verse quotation. 2. Verse considered to be of similar literary merit; doggerel.

 

 

[Shani Naylor]

I'll kick this off by voting 8 & 11

8.            a small amount; a smidgen.

 

11.          Proceeding with an irregular motion or gait. (N. Amer. sl.)

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[Tim B]

3 and 6, please.

Best wishes,
Tim Bourne.

[Johnb - co.uk]

First and Last for me please #1 and #13

JohnnyB

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[Tim Lodge]

I'll try 1 and 11.

 1.           a game of darts in which the numbers 1-20 must be thrown in order three times: first anywhere in the sector, then between the double ring and the triple ring, and finally between the triple ring and the outer bullseye.

11.          Proceeding with an irregular motion or gait. (N. Amer. sl.)

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[Judy Madnick]

For lack of a better idea, I'll go with the two similar definitions (although the games are very tempting):

 

3.            [Slang] a signaller [from the rattle of Morse code dit-dum-dit-dum]

 

     and

 

 10.          The Morse code; a dot followed by a dash in Morse code.

 

Judy Madnick

Albany, NY

[Paul Keating]

I don't place much faith in the Morse defs, because ._ is usually pronounced dit-dah not dit-dum, and ._._ (which I had to look up) is the Morse code for Ä.

Votes to 7 & 8.

P

[France International/Mike Shefler]

I'll go with 6 and 10.

[Debbie]

7 or 8 please

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[Efrem G Mallach]

11 and 12, because why not?

Efrem

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On Apr 27, 2020, at 2:15 AM, Daniel B Widdis <wid...@dixonary.net> wrote:

While my spreadsheet had enough room for many more, it seems that we are left with a dozen player submissions plus the dictionary, giving 13 options for your IDDY-UMPTY vote.  You all know the drill.  Don’t look it up, vote for two, deadline in about 32 ¾ hours at 8am Tuesday PST (11am EST, 1500 UTC, 4pm  BST, 5pm CEST, and Wednesday 1am AEST and 3am NZST).
 
 
  

[ALAN MALLACH]

Dan - I'll go with 2 and 6. 

Alan

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[nancygoat]

I'll take 6 and 13.

Nancy

[Christopher Carson]

6 and 8 for me.

 

Chris