Round 3551 - GIGIL - time to vote

[Shani Naylor]

Hi all

We have a very respectable total of 14 defs for your voting pleasure. Please vote for two before the deadline, which is just under 36 hours time.

If everyone who submitted a def has voted, I will close early.

1.       Any worthless outer covering.

2.       An ancient unit of liquid capacity equal to 60 shekels.

3.       A vertical rigid wing sail used on modern catamarans.

4.       (or gigill) promoters’ term for an event canceled due to illness.

5.       A type of musical composition specific to the Glass Harmonica of Benjamin Franklin.

6.       In archaeology, strata or deposits of material containing a high proportion of man-made detritus.

7.       A dance characterized by quick steps and spinning, common to square dances in the American Midwest.

8.       In rural Turkey, a farm building having stables for livestock at ground level with accommodation for the farmer's family above them.

9.       A minor, persistent, and often unnoticed mechanical hum or vibration within a system, suggesting underlying activity or imminent operation.

10.   In Judaism, the ritual of rewinding a Torah scroll from the end of Deuteronomy back to the beginning of Genesis at the completion of a reading cycle.

11.   A rare fungal infection of the cricoid cartilage, identifiable by an asymptomatic, iridescent blue discoloration of the uvula and resistance to conventional antifungal treatments.

12.   To maneuver one's dance partner toward an introduction by performing an elaborate triple-turn while maintaining linked elbows. [Early 19th c.: < Fr. gigue 'dance' + diminutive -il]

13.   A historical unit of weight used in 17th-century maritime trade mainly for spices and textiles. Equivalent to about three-quarters of a stone, it fell out of use by the early 18th century.

14.   An intense feeling caused by anger, eagerness, or the pleasure of seeing someone or something cute or adorable, typically physically manifested by the tight clenching of hands, gritting of the teeth, trembling of the body, or the pinching or squeezing of the person or thing causing this emotion.

The deadline is 9am NZT Monday 9 June. 

Los Angeles, CA, USA
Sun, 8 Jun 2025 2:00 p.m.

New York, NY, USA
Sun, 8 Jun 2025 5:00 p.m.

London, United Kingdom
Sun, 8 Jun 2025 10:00 p.m.

Paris, France
Sun, 8 Jun 2025 11:00 p.m.

[Paul Keating]

At least two of these have the piled-up adjectives that look to me like an AI's notion of a dictionary definition. I find it hard to imagine what a horizontal sail would look like (except maybe on a spacecraft), so why would one say a catamaran sail is vertical? I reckon derivation from gig or jig is implausible. 

I like the units of measure and the Turkish farmhouse. But I can't have three. I vote for 13 (even though it is suspiciously encyclopaedic) and 8.

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[Tim Lodge]

I got to the end without finding one I really believed, so I'll vote for the last two, 13 and 14.

13.   A historical unit of weight used in 17th-century maritime trade mainly for spices and textiles. Equivalent to about three-quarters of a stone, it fell out of use by the early 18th century.

14.   An intense feeling caused by anger, eagerness, or the pleasure of seeing someone or something cute or adorable, typically physically manifested by the tight clenching of hands, gritting of the teeth, trembling of the body, or the pinching or squeezing of the person or thing causing this emotion.

-- Tim L 

[Judy Madnick]

2.       An ancient unit of liquid capacity equal to 60 shekels. 

and

6.       In archaeology, strata or deposits of material containing a high proportion of man-made detritus.

 

Judy  Madnick

[France International/Mike Shefler]

I'll vote for 13 and 14.

--Mike

[Efrem Mallach]

8 and 13 (which seems to be vox pop so far).

Efrem

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[Rey]

2 & 13 are similar.

[Chowie]

Nothing looks possible today. So, reluctantly,  6 and 14.

~Bending under the weight of His mercies~

The Eternal God is my refuge, and underneath are the Everlasting Arms. 

Deuteronomy 33:27

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[Eric Boxer]

I'll vote for 1 and 9.

-- Eric

[Tim Bourne]

1 and 8, please.
Best wishes,
Tim Bourne.
PS Yes, we saw Denali!

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[nancygoat]

Give me 12 and 13. To show I read them all. (A lot!)

Nancy

[Tony Abell]

With no expectation of either being right, I'll waste my votes on 10 and 13:

> 10. In Judaism, the ritual of rewinding a Torah scroll from the end of
> Deuteronomy back to the beginning of Genesis at the completion of a reading
> cycle.

[Hero’s fall Cunningham]

Argh ... I thunked I voted ...

if I did, ignore this!

3 and 14 ... one popular and one not

dave