Round 3156 FASKIDAR Defs - Vote Now!

[Tim Lodge]

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

        20:00 UTC/GMT on Wednesday 7th April
        21:00 BST in London       
        22:00 CET in France and the Netherlands
         4:00 PM EST in New York   
         1:00 PM PST in California
        08:00 NZST on Thursday 8th in New Zealand


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

--  Tim L

 *** FASKIDAR ***

 1.  A serene view.
 2.  a very wicked person.
 3.  [Indian Eng.] a scribe.
 4.  a supervisor in a tea plantation.
 5.  [Scot. Obs.]  A name applied to the Northern Gull.
 6.  Any room reserved for female worshippers at mosques.
 7.  An arctic sea-turtle, Eretmochelys thulesis [Icelandic]
 8.  [Hind.] A district tax collector in NW India under the Rajputs.
 9.  a long double-edged dagger worn by palace guards in the Ottoman empire.
10.  Early Ottoman headgear made of leather with an outer layer of embroidered velvet or silk
11.  A form of whistled language used by the inhabitants of central Turkey to communicate across long distances.
12.  originally the rank of Lance-Corporal in the Bengali regiments in British India; in Banglasdesh the word is now replaced by _subidar_.
13.  The chief or leader of a band or body of persons; esp., in the native army of India, an officer of a rank corresponding to that of lieutenant in the English army.

[Johnb - co.uk]

lots of Indian and Turkish - eliminating those doesn't leave much... so I'll go Northern = #5 and #7 for me please

 
JohnnyB

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[Paul Keating]

I'll follow Johnny's lead. 5 & 7.

P

[Debbie]

2 and 3 please.

Nods to the very creative 11.

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[Judy Madnick]

Hmmm...I think I'll avoid "people" (which still leaves too many!) with:

 

 9.  a long double-edged dagger worn by palace guards in the Ottoman empire.
10.  Early Ottoman headgear made of leather with an outer layer of embroidered velvet or silk 

 

Judy Madnick

[Tim B]

8 and 13, please.

Best wishes,
Tim Bourne.

[France International/Mike Shefler]

I'll go with 12 and 13.

--Mike

[Dan Widdis]

11 for whistling and 7 for sea turtles.

[nancygoat]

I'll take 4 and 12 this time.

Nancy

[amal...@comcast.net]

Much as it’s appealing, I don’t buy the arctic sea-turtle (are there such creatures?) or the whistlers. I’ll try 4 and 10.

Alan

[Fein, Deborah]

12 and 13, please.

Deborah Fein, Ph.D.
UConn Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor
Department of Psychological Sciences
Department of Pediatrics
University of Connecticut
debora...@uconn.edu

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[Tony Abell]

No idea. I'll try 4 and 11:

> 4. a supervisor in a tea plantation.

[Shani Naylor]

I'm nearly out of time so I'll vote 1 & 13.

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[Efrem G Mallach]

Yikes! Seeing Shani's vote reminded me of the deadline. I'll go for the shortest ones left after a quick screening: 4 and 5.

Efrem

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On Apr 6, 2021, at 5:43 AM, Tim Lodge <d...@timlodge.co.uk> wrote:

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

        20:00 UTC/GMT on Wednesday 7th April
        21:00 BST in London       
        22:00 CET in France and the Netherlands
         4:00 PM EST in New York   
         1:00 PM PST in California
        08:00 NZST on Thursday 8th in New Zealand


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

--  Tim L

 *** FASKIDAR ***