Round 3168 TRABOCCANT Defs - Vote Now!

[Tim Lodge]

Here we have 13 imaginative defs of the word TRABOCCANT, 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:

        09:00 UTC/GMT on Saturday 22nd May
        10:00 BST in London
        11:00 CET in France and the Netherlands
         5:00 AM EST in New York   
         2:00 AM PST in California
        21:00 NZDT in New Zealand

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

--  Tim L

 *** TRABOCCANT ***

 1.     A Calabrese wine.
 2.     An impoverished person; a pauper.
 3.     an unskilled worker or day-laborer.
 4.     An Italian game of chance, played with dice.
 5.     [S. Ital] songs from, or about, fishing villages
 6.     [Obs. rare] superabundant, excessive; preponderant.
 7.     a trade negotiator between papal states in medieval Italy.
 8.     The person who pumped the bellows of an organ when this was still done by hand.
 9.     in Lyons, a person familiar with the passageways (traboules) that link many older buildings.
10.     [rare] of wind, or people: coming from the east; as opposed to _tramontane_, from the north [Ital.]
11.     A tide gate, designed to protect marshland, constructed to let out water at low tide and prevent an influx of water at high tide.
12.     [Mach.] a gear resembling in general a spur gear, but having its teeth cut at an angle with its axis, or so that they form small portions of screws or spirals.
13.     An alerting device which makes you aware of sounds, such as the doorbell or a ringing phone, and is used to overcome the negative effects of distance, poor room acoustics, and background noise.

[France International/Mike Shefler]

I'll go with 9 and 11,

--Mike

[Efrem G Mallach]

Tim,

That deadline is just over 12 hours away. Care to extend it?

TIA,

Efrem

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[amal...@comcast.net]

To which I might add, 12 hours during most of which most residents of the Eastern United States are eating or sleeping.

Alan

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[Efrem G Mallach]

Now that you mention it, since time frame in question is 9:50 pm to 10 am there, so are most residents of the UK.

Efrem

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[Tim B]

2 and 3, please.

Best wishes,
Tim Bourne.

[Tim Lodge]

Well spotted, Efrem!  Of course I meant Sunday.

        09:00 UTC/GMT on Sunday 23rd May

        10:00 BST in London
        11:00 CET in France and the Netherlands
         5:00 AM EST in New York   
         2:00 AM PST in California
        21:00 NZDT in New Zealand

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[Debbie Embler]

I like 2 and 3 also

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[Daniel B Widdis]

I’m amused at a word meaning “preponderant” also being “[rare]”.

 

And I find the etymology of the passageway expert convincing.

 

6 and 9.

 

[Judy Madnick]

 7.     a trade negotiator between papal states in medieval Italy.
 8.     The person who pumped the bellows of an organ when this was still done by hand.

 

Judy Madnick

[Shani Naylor]

I'll try the sort of similar 2 & 3.

 2.     An impoverished person; a pauper.

 3.     an unskilled worker or day-laborer.

[Paul Keating]

6 & 11 for me.

P

[Johnb - co.uk]

#6 and #8 fro me please

JohnnyB

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[Efrem G Mallach]

Eliminating all the Italian-related choices because the word doesn't end in a vowel, eliminating the popular 2/3 combo just because it's popular, eliminating my own, and eliminating one or two more because I felt like eliminating them, I'm left with 6 and 11. 

Efrem

On May 21, 2021, at 4:44 PM, Tim Lodge <d...@timlodge.co.uk> wrote:

Here we have 13 imaginative defs of the word TRABOCCANT, 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:

        09:00 UTC/GMT on Saturday 22nd May
        10:00 BST in London
        11:00 CET in France and the Netherlands
         5:00 AM EST in New York    
         2:00 AM PST in California
        21:00 NZDT in New Zealand

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

--  Tim L

 *** TRABOCCANT ***

 6.     [Obs. rare] superabundant, excessive; preponderant.

[amal...@comcast.net]

Notwithstanding Efrem’s dictum, it just might be Italian-derived. But what?  I’ll try 4 and 6.

Alan

[nancygoat]

Having no idea: 11 and 12.

Nancy

[Ryan McGill]

5 and 13

[amal...@comcast.net]

For the record, having verified with my trusty Sansoni dictionary, Traboccant does come from the Italian Trabbocante, meaning overflowing, or boiling over. ‘tra-‘ is occasionally used in Italian as a rough equivalent of English ‘trans-‘, such as trapassare, to transfix or pierce through (e.g., with a sword).

Alan

 

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