Well I have to say this was a semi-contentious word (looking at no-one in particular...) but it has survived and has begat many little daffynitions which are entombed below for your perusal and choice (including the elusive TRUE MEANING)

ps there has been an arrangement with Faldage that she can vote for whichever daffynition takes her fancy (so please do not discount the one chosen!).

Without further ado...THE DAFFYNITIONS

A)
Yegg - clinical jargon for an embryo, derived as a contraction of the phrase "young egg."

B)
A gelatinous adhesive used to attach the seal to a wood stove door.

C)
Yegg ( or Yeggya)......the pseudomythological creatures created by the American horror writer H. P. Lovecraft, in the book, Lost City of R'lyeh.
Description: The Yegg appear like large white flatworms, possibly of extraterrestrial origin, and they are able to project organic darts into other creatures (humans) to enslave them. Though they can live anywhere, they prefer to spend their time in the catacombs beneath the earth.

D)
Yegg: a burglar or safe-breaker. Origin unknown – possibly from surname of well known itinerant burglar

E)
Yegg: The first stone placed at the bottom of a cairn. (Welsh)

F)
Yegg: a natural channel or fissure in a peat moor

G)
A wooden pipe with a sliding lid, chiefly for smoking marijuana or hashish.

H)
Yegg: actually Y'yegg-
A drink found among the rural tribesfolk of Mongolia,
made from fermented yak milk, and spiced with a particular ground root from a plant called yoyegg.

I)
A schlemiel

We got us some good daffynitions in there.

On the internet no one knows you're a dog.

I think it's F

Thanks for the game.

I'm going for F
also, maybe because my mind feels like a bog some days.

or in Faldo's case, a guy.
- ron o., obviousizing as ever

That's a yummy collection. Now I'll need time to decide whether to go for the real thing or the biggest laugh Nice Dafs!

sorry touch typing error! Have just learnt how to type without looking at either the keys or the screen...however mistakes are happening more frequently...should subside in a few days though!

if I were voting, which I'm not, at least not at the moment, I'd be torn between i) for its succinctitude or c) for its verbositude.
- joe (pay no attention to the man behind the curtain) friday

I know its not A and I like a couple of others so not voting yet...
C has a familiar ring to it and if its I, well funny how it came right after the Yiddish words featured last week (thats all I'm saying).

We will C which one is right. (Yes, that's the one I'm voting for.)

I do have time to vote. The biggest laugh goes to H. I trust the fermented yack milk detail ( reality is crazy enough , no?!)

I vote for D, since nobody else has.

And now I'll cook my breakfast, some ybacon, ygrits, and ...

So far 5 votes in:
C,D and H have 1 vote each and F has 2
Looking forward to more votes (including yours tsuwm?)

Sort of like eggnog and nutmeg, I'd guess. But the yegg
has fermented yak milk. So I guess the eggnog would need
its rum too.

sure, I'll vote for I if no one else will.

(although I don't think we actually need yet another word for schlemiel, as Yiddish already seems to have several (I recall reading somewhere a differentiation amongst shlemiel/shmendrick/shlimazel/schlump/etc. (your spellings may vary.))

by the bye, I wonder if someone has actually noticed that zmjezhd gives his location as R'lyeh..

Oh, I noticed that right away, and wrote to him, whereupon he was kind enough to 'splain to me.

Edit: ooh, guess what I found out just now when I ran that through Google? There's a monstropedia on the internet!

yes..I noticed too.

But I voting for B I've checked the owners manual for our Rayburn wood stove and though it mentions adhesive with the gasket that needs replacing yearly (on boy its well overdue)it says its included in kit. Doesn't give name.

Of course, he lives there with all those scary yeggies. But would he be that OBVIOUS, íf he had brought in a defnition?

or perhaps some nefarious gamester, realizing how sharp we all are, incorporated *his location into *their* daffynition.

nah.

-ron o.

I wonder, still could be zmjezd, he voted last time (surprise). I still owe him a thanks for his vote. Then R'lyeh would an ultimate challenge in a way.

1 vote for it not being C.

On the internet no one knows you're a dog.

Or a bitch. Let alone one that can read n rite.

Now that you have eliminated one olly...

I'm voting E. It doesn't sound Welsh, but, hey, ya never knows.

Likewise for I

I am voting for H -- the yak milk got me.

G

This is great just waiting for Buffalo Shrdlu to vote then that's it! So far 11 votes in, so thanks everyone

Pretty good considering the business of the season and all.

has the great Buffalo voted yet?

Buff Shrdl???? When the yegging is slow .. I 'd like to know the real definition at last .

He has until tomorrow to vote and then I will post the results

sorry, all! I've been away, galavanting around the country...

I'll pick F. I think I knew a Pete Moore in high school.

though E uses a favorite word of mine.

Galavanting? That sounds interesting. I'll treat it like a hogwash word: hum.. Being a maestro performer in a series of great benefit concerts.

Galavanting. I grew up with that word, a favorite
of my grandmother's with whom I spent a great deal
of time.

If you grew up with that word could you please tell me what it means?

perhaps you've not been able to find it because the normal spelling is gallivanting
-joe (speeling 'R us) friday '

edit(1) - eta, if you had the 2nd sense of dictionary.com in mind, you got some 'splaining to do.

edit(2) - bexter, see the Cambridge entry for yet another example of nefarious dictionary tactics

HA that is BRILLIANT! (and it doesn't even have a definition for the word it supplies instead!)

oh and as all votes are now in...

Now I díd look it up and ha! It refers to
gallus domesticus behaviour.

Young Lobski said to his ugly wife,
"I'm off till to-morrow to fish, my life;"
Says Mrs. Lobski, "I'm sure you a'nt",
But you brute you are going to gallivant."

What Mrs. Lobski said was right,
Gay Mr. Lobski was out all night.
He ne'er went to fish, 'tis known very well
But where he went I shall not tell.
["Songs from the Exile," in "Literary Panorama," London, 1809]

Edit: Yes, you've got work to do bexter!

A. does not fancy any of them. Was inclined to go with E but what use is defining the first stone in a pile? Weeding out more, is not "young egg" another pleonasm? Wood stoves do not need seals and a well-known burglar would not be successful long enough to become an eponym. A peat moor channel is useful for - navigation? Are there any urban Mongolian tribefolk?

Wincing and going with C.

Voting is now closed the results will be posted as fast as I can type!Thanks everyone!

oy. sorry for my egregious spelling, I was totally not thinking.

and, yes, while I was thinking def. 1, there was however, also 2., though she is my wife.

close, actually! though I wasn't the maestro, and it wasn't really a benefit concert.

>oy. sorry for my egregious spelling, I was totally not thinking.

actually, the same source gives galavanting as a variant (although my spiel-checker barfs on it) - I'm guessing it's regional in nature.

I know it is the time of choirs and singing and we all know you sing well.

:¬ )

love your daffynition Bran......

this is word from my childhood too.
usually used as accusation from parents when us kids hadn't done something as in we were otherwise occupied, 'gallivanting around the countryside'

Galavanting: running around like a chicken who's lost
its head. Getting nowhere quickly. Running around without
a care in the world.

....and yes, I am aware of the other spelling.
But I learned it as galavanting and am keeping
the spelling that way.

the extra 'L' ...could it be periphrasis?

and how would you explain the 'a' vs. 'i' then?!

hmmmm well, down here 'a' and 'i's are always getting mixed up in the speech between Kiwi's and Aussies....I just didn't notice it.

I say 'pin' and Aussies think I'm saying 'pen'

A) if you don't have a first stone you're not going to have a pile.

2) A young egg is the egg in a state of development prior to the formation of the shell. Anyone who has killed and gutted a chicken is familiar with the eggs in this state. The assembly line looks a little like a brussels sprout bush.

Þ) If there isn't a seal around the edge of the door you're not going to be able to control the air coming into the stove and it will burn too hot and too quickly. On our stove the seal is a braided cord and it is attached to the edge of the door with some goop.

and iv) the story of Johnny Yegg

Where I grew up a "yegg" was a safecracker. Plain and simple.

Also you get 'old eggs'. When collecting fresh eggs from chicken nest, we had to date them, so we knew which were the young ones and which were older. The older ones sometimes went 'bad' before we used them.

.....now you have me singing Cole Porter's: It's De-lovely......but like Robbie Williams version

I never said a yegg wasn't a safe-cracker, just that that is a later slang definition of the original meaning of yegg.
Also tsuwm if you read the definition it does say that yegg may have come from the surname of an itinerant burglar but it unknown whether the word or the burglar came first.

on a related note, did the external link to the NYT article on Johnny Yegg work for y'all? I had some problems with it my own self, although it did work once. (PDF file)

works fine for me!

Yes it did, but there is an interestinger article there called "My last play". It could be posturing, or it could be tragic. Can't imagine giving away all your books like that. I wonder how he'll feel in the end when they are all gone - disembowelled or unburdened?

that is interesting!

Just revisit this post Aramis, because I wanted to say hello to you before saying goodbye. Nice to see you pay a visit to the hog even though you did not fancy any of them defs. Bye!

He only need be well-known in the burglar community. His name would become an eponym for them and only later seep out into the greater, law-abiding community.

works for me too...and I went off reading too, as did Avy.
(interesting aritcle about WikiLeaks)

but......mine was the choosen one C

My choice was between yours and the yak milk one. For the most fancyfull of them.

It was a fun round......lots of lively discussion.

Thanks, Bran, the yak milk intrigued me too, especially
with the root mixture. (Eggnog and nutmeg).

Opnieuw het weggaan Bran?

Ha! Niet ik, maar gij.