Round 3172: BAWN [Call for Votes]

[Paul Keating]

Here are 13 potential definitions of BAWN. Some come from a dictionary, and one even from a dictionary article about the word bawn. Please vote for two, by the deadline, which is Monday 7 June at 10h00 CEST. That is roughly 48 hours from time of posting.

1. A squirrel’s nest.
2. A large abdominal paunch; a pot belly.
3. [OE] bath or spa (c.f. German Baden).
4. The fourth letter of the Piscatedic alphabet.
5. A dark brown pigment used in oil painting, extracted from the fecal matter of bears.
6. Scot. An immaterial debt which cannot be settled by the exchange of goods or property.
7. 1. A fortified enclosure, enceinte, or circumvallation; the fortified court or outwork of a castle. 2. A cattlefold.
8. The noise that can occur when a yawn and a swallow occur at the same time: caused by the release of air trapped between the epiglottis and the larynx.
9. Processed meat made from offcuts and less desirable parts, usually sold sliced; often beef but also lamb or pork.
10. A slender bristle, especially one at the tip of a glume or lemma in a grass spikelet.
11. A small, twisted bundle of hay used to aid a horse’s circulation.
12. Mud formed from the partial decay of peat.
13. A secret or clandestine marriage [Eng.] 

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Paul Keating
Soustons, Nouvelle Aquitaine, France

[Debbie Embler]

6 and 7 please

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[Judy Madnick]

5 and 8 because they seem ridiculous and may need some votes. <G>

 

Judy

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Subject: [Dixonary] Round 3172: BAWN [Call for Votes]

[France International/Mike Shefler]

2 and 8 as the only ones that make sense.

--Mike

[Tim Lodge]

I'll try 6 a 7, please.

          6. Scot. An immaterial debt which cannot be settled by the exchange of goods or property.

          7. 1. A fortified enclosure, enceinte, or circumvallation; the fortified court or outwork of a castle. 2. A cattlefold.

BTW, I don't see my def here, although you replied to my def message.

-- Tim L

[Paul Keating]

Quite correct: my apologies. Finger trouble on my part. I did note an apparent empty row in the spreadsheet,  and I should have paid it closer attention. 

P

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[Daniel B Widdis]

6 is most believable.  I would have voted for 7 in homage to rubble but the. I saw 8 and I can’t not vote for that creativity. 

So, 6 and 8.  

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 Here are 13 potential definitions of BAWN. Some come from a dictionary, and one even from a dictionary article about the word bawn. Please vote for two, by the deadline, which is Monday 7 June at 10h00 CEST. That is roughly 48 hours from time of posting.

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[Fein, Deborah]

7 and 13 are kind of opposites, so i'll go for those.

Deb F.

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[Johnb - co.uk]

#7 and #13 please

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[Tony Abell]

I'll take 1 because there ought to be word for that, and 7 because it's dictionary-like:

> 1. A squirrel’s nest.

[Shani Naylor]

I'll vote for the popular 7 and the unpopular 11 because I can't imagine how it might be used.

[amal...@comcast.net]

Paul – I’ll go with 6 and the less popular 10. But with appreciation for the creativity of #5. I wonder if paint companies still send their apprentices out to the woods to gather bearshit, or whether by now synthetic equivalents have been developed.

Alan

 

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Here are 13 potential definitions of BAWN. Some come from a dictionary, and one even from a dictionary article about the word bawn. Please vote for two, by the deadline, which is Monday 7 June at 10h00 CEST. That is roughly 48 hours from time of posting.

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[Efrem G Mallach]

Points to ponder:

Are all squirrel nests supposed to be bawns, or only certain kinds?

Wasn't potbelly the real meaning of a recently-dealt word that begins with "D"?

Was the letter "w" even used in Old English? Didn't it come along later?

What on earth is the Piscatedic alphabet? Pictures of fish?

If bear feces contain brown pigment, shouldn't the feces of at least one less fierce, more easily domesticated, species?

Is an immaterial debt one that doesn't matter? 

Has anyone here ever yawned and swallowed at the same time?

What on earth are glumes and lemmas? (In mathematics, a lemma is a subsidiary proof that is needed for a main proof.)

What do you do with hay to help a horse's circulation? Tickle the horse? Or does it help a horse walk in circles?

Doesn't peat decay into something that can be burned? 

Isn't "secret or clandestine" redundant? 

That leaves 7 and 9. I don't believe them either, but if I find issues with them too I won't have any defs left to vote for.

Efrem

On Jun 5, 2021, at 3:20 AM, Paul Keating <kea...@acm.org> wrote:

Here are 13 potential definitions of BAWN. Some come from a dictionary, and one even from a dictionary article about the word bawn. Please vote for two, by the deadline, which is Monday 7 June at 10h00 CEST. That is roughly 48 hours from time of posting.

7. 1. A fortified enclosure, enceinte, or circumvallation; the fortified court or outwork of a castle. 2. A cattlefold.

[Paul Keating]

Beowulf opens with the exclamation hwæt! (‘lo!’). You are correct that in the manuscript it is written ƿ (wynn), but the usual transcription is w even in learned contexts. For example, the OED gives the OE form of queen as cwēn. And printing w as a single piece of type (as opposed to vv) did indeed come along nearly a millennium later; it began around 1700.

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Paul Keating
Soustons, Nouvelle Aquitaine, France

2021-06-06 23:53

[Efrem G Mallach]

Thanks, Paul. So, a word might be written as "bawn" today even though it wouldn't have been when OE was in use.

Of course, those were only points to ponder. I didn't research any of them, for fear of inadvertently stumbling on the word and its meaning. I just found a few of them amusing and knew that most of the other players had voted by then anyhow.

If anyone who reads this hasn't yet, be warned: my other "points to ponder" are as likely to be misguided as this one was!

Efrem

[Tim B]

> I'll take 1 because there ought to be word for that, and 7 because it's dictionary-like:
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>> 1. A squirrel’s nest.

I'll use one of my rare moments of wifi access to comment that there is, and it's a drey.

Best wishes,
Tim Bourne.

[Efrem G Mallach]

Yes, there is, and I knew that when I submitted it as a fake. I just deleted "drey" from my list of words to deal in the future.

Efrem

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[Daniel B Widdis]

> I just deleted "drey" from my list of words to deal in the future.

Nuts.

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