Round 3616 phynnodderree results

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Mike Shefler

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Jan 24, 2026, 10:38:06 AM (6 days ago) Jan 24
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Dan Widdis is the winner and next dealer with 6 points. 3 of you correctly guessed it was the hairy fairy of Manx.

1.  a nonsense word used in a satirical song to the melody of the
Neapolitan song "Funiculi, Funicula."                                        
  Submitter: Mallach                  Votes: 3 & 5        0 + 0 =   0
  Voted for by:                                                          

2.  [Jamaica] goat soup, believed to be an aphrodisiac.
  Submitter: Naylor                   Votes: 4 & *11*     2 + 0 =   2
  Voted for by:                                                          

3.  a motley assortment of mismatched individuals.
  Submitter: Davis                    Votes: 4 & 8        0 + 3 =   3
  Voted for by: Mallach; Boxer; Bourne

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.                                        
  Submitter: Widdis                   Votes: 7 & *11*     2 + 4 =   6
  Voted for by: Naylor; Davis; Lodge; Keating

5.   [Aus.] ostentatious display of knowledge or intellectualism.
  Submitter: Lodge                    Votes: 4 & 8        0 + 4 =   4
  Voted for by: Mallach; Embler; Boxer; Madnick

6.  someone obsessed with genealogy or a family history fanaticism.
  Submitter: Embler                   Votes: 5 & 8        0 + 0 =   0
  Voted for by:                                                          

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).                                                                    
  Submitter: Barrs                     Vote: DQ           DQ + 1 =   1
  Voted for by: Widdis

8.  a library; a body of trivial knowledge.
  Submitter: Boxer                    Votes: 3 & 5        0 + 4 =   4
  Voted for by: Davis; Lodge; Embler; Bourne

9.  a dialect word for the soft, rhythmic tapping made by loose shutters
in coastal storms.                                                            
  Submitter: Madnick                  Votes: 5 & 10       0 + 0 =   0
  Voted for by:                                                          

10.  a Manx competitive festival of song, dance and poetry.
  Submitter: Keating                  Votes: 4 & *11*     2 + 1 =   3
  Voted for by: Madnick

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.            
  Submitter: Dictionary                Vote: N/A                   D3
  Voted for by: Naylor; Widdis; Keating

     No def: Bourne                   Votes: 3 & 8        0 + 0 =   0

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