Round 3578 NURGLE time to vote!

[Glenn Thomas Davis]

Here are a baker's dozen definitions for NURGLE, one of which I got out of an actual dictionary. Please submit two guesses by noon Wednesday, September 10 EDT in 2025 of the Common Era, if you please. Good luck!

1. A tube used to reduce the sound made by water rushing into a cistern.

2. A small pocket on clothing for keys, a watch, or other small items.

3. The characteristic sound of a waterfall.

4. A short, squat little savage man.

5. To cheat in a cheese-rolling competition by brushing the grass with a broom either to smooth the path for one's own cheese or to provide rougher ground for the opponents's cheeses; some local "house rules" allow the former but not the latter. The standard penalty, apart of course from losing, is to have to eat the winning cheese.

6. A wet nurse.

7. To adjust the oscillation frequency of an electrical circuit by modifying its capacitance.

8. The underlip in men and animals, when it hangs down large and loose. Hence: to hang one's nurgle: to look disappointed, discontented or sulky.

9. A subsonic vocalization by elephants used to communicate over long distances.

10. A flute made out of the wood of the jackfruit tree.

11. A tangled mass of fibers, hair, or thread; a small knot or snarl.

12. [Theater Slang]  Any small piece of stage property, such as a candlestick or a book, which enhances a scene but is not essential to it.

13. Scot. A lump of uncooked oatmeal in a plate of porridge.

—Glenn

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

[Chowie]

For all things full of grass and debris, my votes go to 11 and 5. Extra points for how many times "cheese" can be said in one definition.

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[France International/Mike Shefler]

I'll go with 5 and 8.
--Mike

[rey]

I know that word.

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Rey

[Eric Boxer]

I'll vote for 2 and 11.

-- Eric

[John Barrs]

#9 and #11 please

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[Judy Madnick]

I'll go with 11 and 12.

 

Judy Madnick

[Tim Lodge]

How about 4 and 13?

              4. A short, squat little savage man.

             13. Scot. A lump of uncooked oatmeal in a plate of porridge.

-- Tim L

[Tony Abell]

I'll take 3 and 11:

> 3. The characteristic sound of a waterfall.

[Shani Naylor]

Very imaginative defs! I'll try 11 & 12.

11. A tangled mass of fibers, hair, or thread; a small knot or snarl.

12. [Theater Slang]  Any small piece of stage property, such as a candlestick or a book, which enhances a scene but is not essential to it.

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[nancygoat]

I'll take 9 and 11.

Nancy

[Daniel B. Widdis]

I'll vote for the cheating cheese rollers, just because I'm amused.  Still, I'm wondering how eating cheese is a penalty?

And I actually believe the lumpy porridge.

5 and 13 please.

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[Efrem Mallach]

11 and 12, please.

Efrem fr

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> On Sep 8, 2025, at 9:15 AM, Glenn Thomas Davis <gl...@gdcreative.com> wrote:
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> Here are a baker's dozen definitions for NURGLE, one of which I got out of an actual dictionary. Please submit two guesses by noon Wednesday, September 10 EDT in 2025 of the Common Era, if you please. Good luck!
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[John Barrs]

Dan

eating cheese can be a penalty - firstly, the average rolling cheese weight is between 7 to 10 lbs and can be pretty dirty having rolled down a pasture grass hill. You have to eat it in situ at the time

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