OT: Made me smile

[Judy Madnick]

Our Book Club is currently reading The God of the Woods, by Liz Moore. Suddenly I came upon this:

 

With reference to parlor games: "The worst was a terrible game called Dictionary that involved a colossal 1930s edition of the OED. The premise was that the leader of a given round had to find a word so obscure that he discerned, via spoken poll, that nobody knew it. Wadmiltilt had been one.Absquatulate. Opsimath. The leader, on a scrap of paper would write down the true definition; everyone else would write down an invented definition; and then every scrap of paper would be passed back to the leader of the round, who would shuffle the scraps and read the definitions aloud, and then everyone would vote on which one he thought was right, with the winner being the participant whose entry received the most guesses." 

It made me smile enough to be willing to retype the entire paragraph. LOL!

 

Judy

 

[Shani Naylor]

LOL

Those are good words. Did it say why it was the "worst"?

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[Judy Madnick]

Alice, the woman who felt it was "a terrible game," was considered not to be very intelligent...or at least she believed she wasn't. She certainly wasn't well-read. Her definitions were always the same, and she had difficulty finding a word that was unknown to others.  

Judy

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Date: 9/1/2025 9:02:27 PM

Subject: Re: [Dixonary] OT: Made me smile

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