Rbd 3245 Vote for BADGER

[John Barrs]

Dear Folks

A few but significant set of defs for you-all to consider

Public Votes by 400pm BST Monday

JohnnyB

1              one who quibbles over trivia

2              Brit. In full: blue-badger. The holder of a blue badge, a permit issued by local government to occupy on-street parking-spaces reserved for the disabled, to park on yellow lines, and free of charge at parking meters; a vehicle so parked

3              n. Informal one who wears a badge for part of his or her work.  At the airport, the security guard was seen hanging out with the other badgers in the coffee shop

4              a defensive construction of sharpened sticks embedded in the ground at an angle, intended to fend off a cavalry charge

5              a person who collects badges

6              in medieval warfare, a soldier owing permanent allegiance to a lord (and wearing his badge), not a mercenary

7              a stranger hired to impersonate friends, family members or other acquaintances, as a way to save face at social functions where plus-ones are expected

8              an archaic English term for a dealer in food

9              a single-masted fishing vessel of the Levant

10              Slang name for melaxuma, a disease of trees, especially walnuts, characterized by black and white cankers which resemble a badger’s face

 

[Tim B]

2 and 9, please.

Best wishes,
Tim Bourne.

[Chowie]

8 and 9 please

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[Judy Madnick]

7              a stranger hired to impersonate friends, family members or other acquaintances, as a way to save face at social functions where plus-ones are expected

8              an archaic English term for a dealer in food

 

Judy Madnick

[Tim Lodge]

I'll try 4 and 9, please.

          4              a defensive construction of sharpened sticks embedded in the ground at an angle, intended to fend off a cavalry charge

           9              a single-masted fishing vessel of the Levant

--  Tim L

[Daniel B Widdis]

4 and 6 for pointy things and war

 

[Paul Keating]

I will ignore the defs that offer badge, with the suffix -er in the sense ‘one who has to do with (the thing denoted by the primary noun)’, not because they are implausible but because there are four of them: 2  3, 5, 6. 

One of those four is probably correct, but I vote for the unlikely 4; and for 8, despite its undictionarylike diction.

P

[France International/Mike Shefler]

I'll go with 2 and 8.

[Efrem G Mallach]

Quite a variety there! I'll try 2 and 10.

Efrem

On Apr 16, 2022, at 12:02 PM, John Barrs <jo...@john-barrs.co.uk> wrote:

Dear Folks

A few but significant set of defs for you-all to consider

Public Votes by 400pm BST Monday

JohnnyB

2              Brit. In full: blue-badger. The holder of a blue badge, a permit issued by local government to occupy on-street parking-spaces reserved for the disabled, to park on yellow lines, and free of charge at parking meters; a vehicle so parked

[Shani Naylor]

1 & 7 for me. 

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[Tony Abell]

It's well past the voting deadline, but I would have voted 2 and 4:

> 2 *Brit.* In full: *blue-badger. *The holder of a blue badge,

> a permit issued by local government to occupy on-street parking-spaces
> reserved for the disabled, to park on yellow lines, and free of charge at
> parking meters; a vehicle so parked