Round 3467 - GRIGGLES - time to vote!

[Shani Naylor]

Hi all

We have a baker's dozen of definitions for our word GRIGGLES. Please vote for two by the deadline, which is 40 hours from now. I'll close the round early if everyone who supplied a def has voted.

1.       Diarrhoea.

2.       (UK) Dishevelled; unshaven.

3.       Inconvenient small change of little value. 

4.       A laughing grimace, sometimes threatening.

5.       Small apples left on the tree by the gatherer.

6.       Food particles caught in a man’s beard or mustache.

7.       The facial hair often developed by older women. (Yorks. Dial.)

8.       A type of Welsh pasty, generally served at tea-time, filled with lamb and leek.

9.       Inadvertent laughter that erupts after what one had thought was only a smile.

10.   Trinkets or pieces of jewelry usually hung about the neck and thought to be a magical protection against evil or disease.

11.   Wedges hammered into the shaft of an implement such as an axe, to prevent the head coming off the shaft when in use.

12.   An insect-borne viral disease transmitted by midges that affects sheep, cattle and other ruminants. Also called bluetongue.

The deadline is 1am Saturday 27 July NZT, or 

Los Angeles, CA, USA
Fri, 26 Jul 2024 6:00 p.m.

New York, NY, USA
Fri, 26 Jul 2024 9:00 p.m.

London, United Kingdom *
Sat, 27 Jul 2024 2:00 a.m.

Paris, France
Sat, 27 Jul 2024

3:00 a.m 

[John Barrs]

Interesting, to me a baker's dozen is 13 (or 11 if one is using a metric dozen but the reason for the extra loaf doesn't apply nowadays so the  idea of a metric dozen is sheer arrogant presumption)

JohnnyB

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[Paul Keating]

There is not nor ever was a metric dozen, or even the suggestion of one. The only citation for it ever is in a 2017 article in a funny paper called The Flying News that was quite obviously intended to be a spoof.

You're imputing arrogance and presumption to a straw man. 

P

[Tim Lodge]

1 and 5, please.

1.       Diarrhoea.

5.       Small apples left on the tree by the gatherer.

--  Tim L

[Chowie]

Shani, my definition is missing (again)!

:(

[Shani Naylor]

Ah, yes it's not a baker's dozen, my bad.

Debbie, your def is there. I'll email you separately. 

Shani

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[Chowie]

4 and 9 please.

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[Judy Madnick]

5 and 6 today.

Judy Madnick

[France International/Mike Shefler]

I'll go with 4 and 9.

--Mike

[Paul Keating]

I started by leaving out definitions implying that a real dictionary would present a plural catchword for a countable noun. (Spoiler: They don't.) 

But there were only four 👍. So that left an octal dozen, no less mythical 🦄, nor more presumptuous, than the decimal variety. Of those I'll take alpha and omega and vote for 1 and 12.

P

1.       Diarrhoea.

[collect (null)]

5 and 12   …  no reason this time either … 

Dave

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[Glenn Thomas Davis]

GWP… 1&12.

—Glenn

. . .

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

—Plutarch

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[Tim B]

3 and 5, please.

Best wishes,
Tim Bourne.

[nancygoat]

I'll take 6 and 12 this time. For balance.

Nancy

[John Barrs]

Paul

We discussed a metric dozen here some years ago. Yes I am sure we had tongues in cheek - at least I know I did. I certainly did not invent it anew a couple of days ago in this thread.

My memory is going nowadays but I think it was generated by a newspaper article about the kind of idiocies we have here in the UK (or had then) === like knowing how many metres it takes to stop a car when you are driving at 70 miles an hour. I distinctly do remember that the article asked whether a baker's dozen was now 11

JohnnyB

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[Paul Keating]

I understand it's a joke. And I'm happy to accept that with more time to think about it you could predate my citation.

But I fail to see how a harmless if silly fiction is evidence of anyone's arrogance or presumption.

[Efrem Mallach]

I'll try 1 and 6.

Efrem

On Jul 25, 2024, at 5:01 AM, Shani Naylor <shani....@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi all

We have a baker's dozen of definitions for our word GRIGGLES. Please vote for two by the deadline, which is 40 hours from now. I'll close the round early if everyone who supplied a def has voted.

1.       Diarrhoea.