3605 ↩️ HISPI 📣 SUBETH

[Paul Keating]

I’ve already had one DQ too many for hispi. It’s a variety of cabbage that originated in The Netherlands in the 60s, that I know and like well, having spent 16 years in The Hague. But there it is called spitskool ‘pointy cabbage’. Under the name hispi it has recently, I gather, become the darling of chefs in trendy restaurants in English-speaking countries. That name is said to be of Dutch origin, a syllabic abbreviation of hybride spitskool ‘pointy cabbage hybrid’. But the form doesn’t appear in the big Van Dale dictionary, and so I suspect it was coined as a proprietary name, but failed to catch on. I can understand that restaurants would prefer to put the exotic name hispi on the menu. It’s more chic than pointy cabbage, and the other English names for it aren’t all that trendy either.

The new word, barring another round of DQs, is: 

SUBETH

Please let me have your proposals for a definition (the only restriction being that they not betray knowledge of what it actually means), by the unchanged deadline of Friday 12 December at 16h15 CET, and for which you will find a countdown timer here: ⏱️. That is now a little under 40 hours from time of posting. Consider using this email link: defin...@boargules.com, in preference to pressing the Reply button. The link will pass the correct game-specific address to your mail client, and supply the word and round number in the subject line, without your having to retype either. But it will only work in your email client, not when it is displayed by Google Groups.

You should get an immediate automated acknowledgement, if you have sent the definition to the right address, and I will also acknowledge all submissions personally, though that will be less than immediate, especially so if you have used a different address.

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Paul Keating

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[Efrem Mallach]

The second person singular of the verb "to sub," as in "Thou subeth for Ms. Jones in 11th grade history while she is ill, dost thou not?" (I sub, thou subeth, he/she/it subs, we/you/they sub).

Efrem/NAD

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[John Barrs]

that is sub par for you Efrem

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[Paul Keating]

With 18 hours to the deadline of Friday 12 December at 16h15 CET (countdown timer here: ⏱️), I have 9 fake definitions and no outright DQs for the word SUBETH. I have seen and acknowledged definitions from 

• Johnny Barrs

• Eric Boxer

• Tim Bourne

• Glenn Davis

• Hugo Kornelis

• Shani Naylor

• Mike Shefler

• Nancy Shepherdson

• Dan Widdis

That is barely enough to make for an interesting round. More, please, to defin...@boargules.com. 

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[Judy Madnick]

I received confirmation but I'm not listed.

Judy

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[Paul Keating]

Thank you for rescuing me from a cut’n’paste attribution error. I’ve fixed the list of submitters and it now reads

• Johnny Barrs
• Eric Boxer
• Tim Bourne
• Glenn Davis
• Hugo Kornelis

• Judy Madnick
• Shani Naylor
• Mike Shefler
• Dan Widdis

But the fix doesn’t make it longer, and new submissions before the current deadline are unlikely: it is before breakfast for most players. So I am extending the deadline to Friday 12 December at 22h15 CET.