Round 3272 JARGOON Defs - Vote Now!

[Tim Lodge]

Here we have 11 defs of the word JARGOON, 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:

        21:00 UTC/GMT on Monday 8th August
        22:00 BST in London
        23:00 CET in France and the Netherlands
         5:00 PM EDT in New York  
         2:00 PM PDT in California
        09:00 NZST in New Zealand on Tuesday

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

--  Tim L

 *** JARGOON ***

 1.  Hedgehog mushroom.

 2.  Obsolete. Jargon. 

 3.  a type of pear that ripens early.

 4.  (Whaling) a hook for hauling heavy pieces of blubber on deck.

 5.  a type of jacket worn by the upper castes during the Diwali festival.

 6.  A double-ended ferry having two rudders located at the front and rear.

 7.  [Brit. mil. sl., orig. WW II SE Asia] A forced march, esp. of prisoners of war.

 8.   A translucent, colourless, or smoky variety of the mineral zircon, found in Sri Lanka.

 9.  a refusal to a question or proposition which is phrased so as to sound like an acceptance and thus designed to mislead.

10.  (or JAR GOON) a crew member, usually the tail gunner in a bomber, located in a perspex bubble protruding from an aircraft fuselage [RAF slang].

11.  The collective name for pirates and raiders from the southeastern Persian Gulf coast (also known as the ‘Pirate Coast’) who harassed British-flagged shipping in the 18th century. This led to the establishment of the Persian Gulf Residency (1763-1947) under the British East India Company and later the British Raj.

[Tim B]

7 and 11, please.

Best wishes,
Tim Bourne.

[Judy Madnick]

I think I'm going to have to go with what seem like the least likely to me — too many good definitions!

 

 1.  Hedgehog mushroom (because I like mushrooms, although I don't know about hedgehog mushrooms!)
 

 8.   A translucent, colourless, or smoky variety of the mineral zircon, found in Sri Lanka (because my cousin's wife is from Sri Lanka)

 

Judy Madnick

[France International/Mike Shefler]

I'll go with 1 and 3.

[Berger, Deborah]

5 and 6 please.  I thought zircon was Superman's nemesis. 

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[Efrem Mallach]

That would be kryptonite.

Efrem

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[Berger, Deborah]

Ah, of course, how could I be so silly?

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[Efrem Mallach]

Wasn't it Sherlock Holmes who said something to the effect that, once you eliminate all the impossible choices, whatever remains - however improbable it may seem - must be the correct one? 8 and 10, then.

On Aug 6, 2022, at 6:31 AM, Tim Lodge <d...@timlodge.co.uk> wrote:

Here we have 11 defs of the word JARGOON, 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:

        21:00 UTC/GMT on Monday 8th August
        22:00 BST in London
        23:00 CET in France and the Netherlands
         5:00 PM EDT in New York  
         2:00 PM PDT in California
        09:00 NZST in New Zealand on Tuesday

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

--  Tim L

 *** JARGOON ***

 8.   A translucent, colourless, or smoky variety of the mineral zircon, found in Sri Lanka.

10.  (or JAR GOON) a crew member, usually the tail gunner in a bomber, located in a perspex bubble protruding from an aircraft fuselage [RAF slang].

[Daniel B Widdis]

1 and 2 because I’m on vacation and having too much fun to read all the defs. 

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[Chowie]

This time, there are several plausible possibilities, but since I only have 2 votes, I'll cast them at 4 and 7.

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[Shani Naylor]

7 & 8 for me. 

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