Round 3621 DEIPNOSOPHIST Defs - Vote Now

[Tim Lodge]

Here we have 12 defs of the word DEIPNOSOPHIST  only one of which comes from my dictionary.  Please vote for your two favourites by public reply to this message before the deadline:

        10:00 UTC/GMT on Tuesday 9t February in London
        11:00 CET in France and the Netherlands
         5:00 AM EST in New York  
         2:00 AM PST in California
        23:00 NZDT in New Zealand

‏I reserve the right to close the round early if all players who have submitted a def have voted.

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

--  Tim L

*** DEIPNOSOPHIST ***

 1.  A gardener.

 2.  A wicked person.

 3.  A gifted cook; a chef.

 4.  A teacher of sacred geometry and numerology.

 5.  A specialist in the study of soaps and detergents.

 6.  A person who is a master of dinner-table conversation.

 7.  One who advocates learning primarily by trial and failure.

 8.  One who believes that all forms of government are flawed and eventually must fail.

 9.  A person who holds the belief that there is some sort of god or gods, but that the specifics are unknowable.

10.  One who attempts to refute Christianity through the use of clever-sounding, but ultimately fallacious, arguments.

11.  A senior servant in old estates charged with ensuring that multi course meals were served in proper order and decorum.

12.  A speaker's narrative technique which involves an indirect, often layered substitution of meanings or a transgression of boundaries between different levels of the story.

 

[nancygoat]

I'm never the first person to vote (most often last or not at all) and yet here we are on Super Bowl Sunday in the US. 

I'll take 5 and 7.

Nancy

[France International/Mike Shefler]

I'm hungry, so I'll go with 3 and 11.

--Mike

[Tim Bourne]

4 and 9, please.

Sorry no definition this round - celebration weekend for grand-daughters 21st.

Tim B 

[Paul Keating]

6 & 7.

[Chowie]

4 and 7 please

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but only for the truth​." 

II Corinthians 13:8

[Judy Madnick]

7 an 8 today.

Judy. Madnick 

[Shani Naylor]

I'll vote 6 & 9.

[Eric Boxer]

I'll vote for 5 and 7.

-- Eric

[Daniel B. Widdis]

I get the -sophist suffix but have no clue about the prefix.  Seems a plurality likes the food-related definitions.

Reasoning there's probably already enough words for master chefs I'll rule out 3 and vote for 6 and 11.

[John Barrs]

confirm my DQ

(posting here to ensure Paul knows - else he naturally  records DNV  instead of DQ as he did with Shani on my last deal -- I don't know if DQ's are recorded but if they are...)

JohnnyB

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[Paul Keating]

It's not necessary that I know. I only post my results when I think a vote has gone astray in the official tally. Naturally I can't tell a private DQ from a DNV, but the score effect is the same, and nothing I post changes  what the dealer says about it.

[Gail Terman]

6 and 10 please

Gail Terman (she/they)
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On Mon, Feb 9, 2026 at 7:33 AM Paul Keating <dixo...@boargules.com> wrote:

It's not necessary that I know. I only post my results when I think a vote has gone astray in the official tally. Naturally I can't tell a private DQ from a DNV, but the score effect is the same, and nothing I post changes  what the dealer says about it.

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[Efrem Mallach]

I'll take the popular 7 and accompany it with 4.

Efrem

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On Feb 8, 2026, at 1:33 PM, 'Tim Lodge' via Dixonary <dixo...@googlegroups.com> wrote:

Here we have 12 defs of the word DEIPNOSOPHIST  only one of which comes from my dictionary.  Please vote for your two favourites by public reply to this message before the deadline:

        10:00 UTC/GMT on Tuesday 9t February in London
        11:00 CET in France and the Netherlands
         5:00 AM EST in New York  
         2:00 AM PST in California
        23:00 NZDT in New Zealand

‏I reserve the right to close the round early if all players who have submitted a def have voted.

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

--  Tim L

*** DEIPNOSOPHIST ***

 4.  A teacher of sacred geometry and numerology.

 

 7.  One who advocates learning primarily by trial and failure.