Round 3627 SAUDADE Defs - Vote Now!

[Tim Lodge]

Here we have 12 defs of the word SAUDADE only one of which comes from my dictionary.  Please vote for your two favourites by public reply to this message before the deadline:

        17:00 UTC/GMT on Tuesday 3rd March in London
        18:00 CET in France and the Netherlands
        12:00 Midday EST in New York  
         9:00 AM PST in California
        06:00 NZDT in New Zealand

‏I reserve the right to close the round early if all players who have submitted a def have voted.

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

--  Tim L

*** SAUDADE ***     

 1.  Crabgrass.

 2.  Saved; salvaged.

 3.  An invariant of a hypersurface.

 4.  Obs. Some kind of siege engine.

 5.  A longing for an unattainable goal.

 6.  A dry seasonal wind of the Sonoran desert.

 7.  A wood finishing oil, often made of tung oil or polymerized linseed oil.

 8.  Part of an undecked boat that provides seating for the crew and structural rigidity for the hull.

 9.  The Catalan folk art created by painting traditional household scenes on wooden kitchen implements.

10.  The browned residue left in a pan after gently cooking onions, valued for adding depth when deglazed into simple sauces.

11.  A fipple flute made from the horn of a chamois or cow with the wide end closed except for a small hole through which to blow.

12.  (especially with reference to songs or poetry) a feeling of longing, melancholy, or nostalgia that is supposedly characteristic of the Portuguese or Brazilian temperament:

[John Barrs]

#3 and #12 for me please

JohnnyB

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[Judy Madnick]

I'll take these today:
 

 

11.  A fipple flute made from the horn of a chamois or cow with the wide end closed except for a small hole through which to blow.

12.  (especially with reference to songs or poetry) a feeling of longing, melancholy, or nostalgia that is supposedly characteristic of the Portuguese or Brazilian temperament:longing, melancholy, or nostalgia that is supposedly characteristic of the Portuguese or Brazilian temperament: (although I don't know why there's a colon at the end!)

 

Judy Madnick

[France International/Mike Shefler]

5 and 12 for me.

--Mike

[Efrem Mallach]

Never got around to submitting a def, unfortunately. We were flying back from Lisbon that day so there were other priorities. 

5 and 12 share a "longing" theme, so they get my votes.

Efrem

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On Mar 2, 2026, at 5:28 AM, 'Tim Lodge' via Dixonary <dixo...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Here we have 12 defs of the word SAUDADE only one of which comes from my dictionary.  Please vote for your two favourites by public reply to this message before the deadline:

        17:00 UTC/GMT on Tuesday 3rd March in London
        18:00 CET in France and the Netherlands
        12:00 Midday EST in New York  
         9:00 AM PST in California
        06:00 NZDT in New Zealand

‏I reserve the right to close the round early if all players who have submitted a def have voted.

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

--  Tim L

*** SAUDADE ***     

 5.  A longing for an unattainable goal.

[Tim Bourne]

I'll try 6 and 12, please.

Tim B 

[Chowie]

1 and 2

~Bending under the weight of His mercies~

"Life is short, God is real, Heaven is coming." 

[Daniel B. Widdis]

I'll join the crowd longing for 5 and 12

[Eric Boxer]

I'll vote for 1 and 6.

-- Eric

[Paul Keating]

7, for tung oil. And 12, because vox pop. 

[Shani Naylor]

I'll follow the crowd and vote 5 & 12.

[nancygoat]

I'll take 5 and 6.

Nancy

[Tim Lodge]

  Sorry for the delay. Results coming up at about  20:30 GMT.

-- Tim L