Round 3655 PIBGORN

[Tim Lodge]

Here we have 12 defs of the word PIBGORN  (phew - got it right, I think), only one of which comes from my dictionary.  Please vote for your two favourites by public reply to this message before the deadline:

        11:00 UTC/GMT on Thursday 11th September
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        13:00 CET in France and the Netherlands
         7:00 AM EDT in New York  
         4:00 AM PDT in California
        23:00 NZST in New Zealand

‏I reserve the right to close the round early if all players who have submitted a def have voted.

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

--  Tim L

 *** PIBGORN ***

 1.  A descendant of an outcast.

 2.  The principal theme in a pibroch.

 3.  An ethnic group of Central America.

 4.  [Scots Gaelic] The blowstick of a bagpipe.

 5.  An improvised solution that proves unexpectedly superior.

 6.  An ancient wind instrument of Wales resembling the hornpipe.

 7.  A bundle of river reeds tied together for use as a scrubbing tool.

 8.  A small covered drain carrying spring water beneath a path or field boundary.

 9.  A type of crude iron shaped like a block, commonly used as an industrial raw material.

10.  [US campus slang] a brooding, gloomy adolescent who wears dark clothes and listens to gloomy alternative music.

11.  An old name in Wales for either of two grains of the wheat family: emmer (Triticum dicoccum) and einkorn (T. monococcum).

12.  The thirteenth (or more) piglet in a litter which therefore has to really struggle to find a teat; Often a runt through lack of food.

[Judy Madnick]

Decisions, decisions. I'll go with 8 and 9 today.

 

Judy Madnick

[Tim Bourne]

8 and 12, please.

Tim B 

[Chowie]

I'm going to bet on similarity and vote 4 and 6. 

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[France International/Mike Shefler]

I'll go with 2 and 4.

--Mike

[Tony Abell]

I'll try 8 and 11:

> 8. A small covered drain carrying spring water beneath a path or field
> boundary.

[John Barrs]

If I haven't already voted for either of the words then I'll stay Welsh #6 and #11 please, 

JohnnyB

[Shani Naylor]

I will also join the Welsh crowd:

 6.  An ancient wind instrument of Wales resembling the hornpipe.

11.  An old name in Wales for either of two grains of the wheat family: emmer (Triticum dicoccum) and einkorn (T. monococcum).

[Hugo Kornelis]

Hi Tim,

My votes are for:

 3.  An ethnic group of Central America.

 9.  A type of crude iron shaped like a block, commonly used as an industrial raw material.

Cheers,
Hugo

Op 9-6-2026 om 22:37 schreef 'Tim Lodge' via Dixonary:

[Eric Boxer]

I'll vote for 4 and 6.

Eric

[Efrem Mallach]

6 and 8, please.

Efrem

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On Jun 9, 2026, at 4:37 PM, 'Tim Lodge' via Dixonary <dixo...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Here we have 12 defs of the word PIBGORN  (phew - got it right, I think), only one of which comes from my dictionary.  Please vote for your two favourites by public reply to this message before the deadline:

        11:00 UTC/GMT on Thursday 11th September
        12:00 BST in London
        13:00 CET in France and the Netherlands
         7:00 AM EDT in New York  
         4:00 AM PDT in California
        23:00 NZST in New Zealand

‏I reserve the right to close the round early if all players who have submitted a def have voted.

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

--  Tim L

 *** PIBGORN ***

 2.  The principal theme in a pibroch.

 6.  An ancient wind instrument of Wales resembling the hornpipe.

[Paul Keating]

Efrem,

The definition numbers in your message don't agree with the definitions in your quoteback. To save tedious fixes later: is it 6 & 8 or 2 & 6?

P

[Efrem Mallach]

Good catch, Paul! That's happened when I narrowed the list down to three, edited it to remove the others, finally picked two of them and forget to remove the third from the edited list. 

Thee numbers in my message were correct: I eventually eliminated 2 and voted for 6 and 8.

Efrem

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[Daniel B. Widdis]

I'll join the crowd dancing to the music.

4 and 6 please.

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