Round 3469 GUMPHEON Defs - Vote Now!

[Tim Lodge]

Here we have 13 defs of the word GUMPHEON, only one of which comes from my dictionary.  Please vote for your two favourites by public reply to this message before the deadline:

        10:00 UTC/GMT on Saturday 3rd August
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New players are welcome - just don't look up the word until after you've voted.

--  Tim L

*** GUMPHEON *** 

 1.  _Scottish._ A funeral banner.

 2.  A road or path lined with columns.

 3.  A loud, oafish, unpleasant person.

 4.  _Contemptuous_. A coin-operated photocopier.

 5.  a medley of vegetables, served as part of a smorgasbord.

 6.  Random characters inserted into a line of text as the result of a coding error.

 7.  a light sleeveless coat of chain mail worn under the hauberk in the middle ages.

 8.  an obsolete unit of force or thrust in the metre-tonne-second system of units (mts).

 9.  A device used to turn pages of music on a piano, controlled by the pianist's knee (named for its inventor, Murgatroyd Gumph).

10.  The eel _Eurypharynx pelecanoides_, also known as the 'pelican eel' because its mouth can distend to swallow prey much larger than the eel itsef.

11.  [_Stroboscopy_]   a name given by Dr. Harold Edgerton to the apparent reversal of motion of a balloon burst by a bullet as photographed with strobe lights.

12.  An imaginary or theoretical device or contraption, often referenced humorously or ironically to denote something overly complex and ultimately impractical.

13.  sticky mud; any of various fine-grained silty soils common in the central U.S. that when saturated with water become impervious and soapy or waxy and very sticky.

[Chowie]

1 and 3 please

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[France International/Mike Shefler]

I'll vote for the highly unlikely 9 and 10.

--Mike

[Judy Madnick]

For lack of a better idea, I'll take 1 and 13.

 

Judy Madnick

[Dave Cunningham]

8 and 12 as quite silly. Murgatroyd Is from a cartoon, so it was an almost choice…

Dave

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On Aug 1, 2024, at 6:36 PM, Judy Madnick <jmad...@gmail.com> wrote:

 For lack of a better idea, I'll take 1 and 13.

 

Judy Madnick

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[Daniel B. Widdis]

I'll go with the eating-related defs, 5 and 10.

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[Shani Naylor]

I'll vote 7 & 12 as being more likely than most of the other defs.

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[John Barrs]

Tim

having got my def in I'd better vote

#1 and #7 please

JohnnyB

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[Glenn Thomas Davis]

I will also give 1 and 7 a go.

—Glenn

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

—Plutarch

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[nancygoat]

I'll have 7 and 10 this time.

Nancy

[Tony Abell]

I'll dissipate my votes on 1 and 7:


> 1. *_Scottish*._ A funeral banner.

[Efrem Mallach]

#1 is popular, but sounds too much like “gonfalon” for me to buy it. My votes go to the (slightly) more believable 7 and 12. 

Efrem

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On Aug 2, 2024, at 12:10 AM, 'Tim Lodge' via Dixonary <dixo...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Here we have 13 defs of the word GUMPHEON, only one of which comes from my dictionary.  Please vote for your two favourites by public reply to this message before the deadline:

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