'Shortly' got a bit extended because of various domestic events!
I recently watched an old TV episode of
Call My Bluff and made a note of several excellent candidate words. Unfortunately, my local library has stopped subscribing to the online OED, and the words are so obscure that I can't find them in any other dictionary. Here's one I could find.
The new word is:
LORIPIPE Please send your fake defs and DQs to me by email to
d...@timlodge.co.uk before the deadline of:
09:00 UTC/GMT on Friday 10th September
10:00 BST in London
11:00 CET in France and the Netherlands
5:00 AM EDT in New York
2:00 AM PDT in California
21:00 NZST in New ZealandNew players are welcome. Don't look up the word, but just send me a fake and fanciful definition of the word.
-- Tim L