Round 3616 vote for Phynnodderee

[Mike Shefler]

Here are 11 definitions for phynnodderee, one of which came from a respectable dictionary.
Vote for your two favorites no later than 10 AM EST, Saturday, January 24.

1.  a nonsense word used in a satirical song to the melody of the
Neapolitan song "Funiculi, Funicula."

2.  [Jamaica] goat soup, believed to be an aphrodisiac.

3.  a motley assortment of mismatched individuals.

4.  a carriage for persons, in its construction very similar to the
carpentum, being covered overhead and inclosed with curtains, so as
to be used at night as well as by day.

5.   [Aus.] ostentatious display of knowledge or intellectualism.

6.  someone obsessed with genealogy or a family history fanaticism.

7.  a genus of chiefly tropical small cylindrical beetles (family
Bostrychidae) that have the dorsal surface covered with short dense
erect hairs and that live as borers in woody plants (such as
bamboos).

8.  a library; a body of trivial knowledge.

9.  a dialect word for the soft, rhythmic tapping made by loose shutters
in coastal storms.

10.  a Manx competitive festival of song, dance and poetry.

11.  in the folklore of the Isle of Man, a hairy supernatural creature, a
sort of sprite or fairy, often carrying out chores to help humans.

[Judy Madnick]

Well, I don't believe any of them, including my own! I'll fall for 5 and 10.

 

Judy Madnick

[Paul Keating]

Though I was tempted to double down on Manx, I'll take just one, the hairy fairy, 11. My other vote is for the stately carriage with the equally stately 19th-century definition, 4.  

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[Daniel B. Widdis]

I'll go with the beetles, as I'm currently in the middle of Chapter 23 of Project Hail Mary, and pair it with the other hairy creatures.

7 and 11 please. 

[Eric Boxer]

I'll vote for 3 and 5.

-- Eric

[Tim Bourne]

3 and 8, please.

Best wishes,
Tim B.

[Tim Lodge]

4 and 8, please.

              4.  a carriage for persons, in its construction very similar to the carpentum, being covered overhead and inclosed with curtains, so as to be used at night as well as by day

              8.  a library; a body of trivial knowledge

-- Tim L

[Shani Naylor]

4 & 11 for me (who's hoping that #1 doesn't become an earworm...)

[Chowie]

I will go with 5 and 8. 

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[Efrem Mallach]

I dunno. Could be any of several, though my first reaction was "none of the above," I'll go with 3 and 5.

Efrem

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> On Jan 22, 2026, at 11:35 AM, 'Mike Shefler' via Dixonary <dixo...@googlegroups.com> wrote:
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> Here are 11 definitions for phynnodderee, one of which came from a respectable dictionary.
> Vote for your two favorites no later than 10 AM EST, Saturday, January 24.
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> 3. a motley assortment of mismatched individuals.
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[Glenn Thomas Davis]

Uuuuhhhh... (closing eyes and jabbing my finger randomly at the screen) 4, and, uuuhh... (jab) 8.

—Glenn

. . .

The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled.

—Plutarch

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