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#74811 - 07/03/02 09:48 AM New game (possibly!)
modestgoddess old hand Registered: 02/18/02 Posts: 833 Loc: Eastern Ontario, Canada	Think I've thunk up a new game - see if anyone wants to play.... Open yer dictionary randomly, and come up with a definition for the pairing of words listed at the top of the page. List the phrase they create, your definition, and the dictionary you are using. (Feel free to flip a few pages if you don't hit something you can use right away.) I do this, on occasion, just for fun....! anyone wanna play? My examples: escargot espousal: nuptials for snails. (from the Canadian Oxford) mihrab milk fever: disease found only in devout Muslim cattle. (also from the Canadian Oxford) petrodollar phalanx: the group, or compact mass, of nations that earn money from oil. (Cdn Oxford again) demotic denunciation: popular appeal for peace from pestilential attentions. (Australian Pocket Oxford) hmm....reminds me of something I've seen somewhere recently.... honey hook: a sweet temptation that draws you in. (Aussie Pocket-Rocket Oxford again) nom de guerre non sequitur: an illogical war name, such as Ghenghis the Peaceful Destroyer. (AUST Pocket Oxford) isinglass isotope: a whiter shade of one of two or more forms of an element differing from each other in atomic weight. (Concise Oxford) Stales, mate, this one's for you! pit pixie: a fairy that has been trained to savage other fairies. (Concise Oxford) peyote Ph.D.: the degree you hallucinated you had after 40 days and 40 nights in the Mexican desert. (Concise Oxford) Let us go in peace to love and serve the board.
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#74812 - 07/03/02 10:01 AM Re: New game (possibly!)
FishonaBike veteran Registered: 10/11/00 Posts: 1346 Loc: Sussex, England	Nice one, MG. Will definitely play, but as online dictionaries won't work you'll have to await me getting back home to the paper variety...
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#74813 - 07/03/02 09:28 PM Re: New game (possibly!)
stales old hand Registered: 11/13/00 Posts: 866 Loc: Perth, Western Australia	Like it MG! stales
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#74814 - 07/04/02 04:03 AM Re: New game (possibly!)
dodyskin addict Registered: 04/24/02 Posts: 475 Loc: manchester uk	chambers pocket dictionary 1988 excise ex officio- to discriminate on grounds of a persons job mousse mullion- the clouds that coast on the horizon that separate the sunset and the hills warble water- guinness! mesdames metropolis- department store lugubrious macaroni- the pasta that gets stuck to the colander juggernaut juxtaposition- car crash? dis a good game
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#74815 - 07/04/02 07:09 AM Re: New game (definitely)
dodyskin addict Registered: 04/24/02 Posts: 475 Loc: manchester uk	again again stagger stand- two drunks holding each other up discourse disinclination- trappist monk ( is it trappist?) snub soda- 1. a tiny bottle of pop like panda pops or 2. the cola served to you by vigilant aunties at parties who think you are too drunk crayon creep- the slow discolouration of baby clothes tumbrel turn- last minute pardon
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#74816 - 07/04/02 08:38 AM Re: New game (definitely)
modestgoddess old hand Registered: 02/18/02 Posts: 833 Loc: Eastern Ontario, Canada	dodyskin, you make-a me and ! that's the spirit.....I especially like "stagger stand" and "crayon creep" and "lugubrious macaroni" and and and....! More from the Cdn Oxford: daywear deadpan: sartorial humour. bachelor apartment back eddy: toilet blockage for which a plunger is required. sayonara scallop: the last scallop, or scalloped potato, in the dish, eg. "Do you want the sayonara scallop, or may I have it?" vogue word voltage: the charge you get out of using up-to-date slang. Let us go in peace to love and serve the board.
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#74817 - 07/04/02 12:38 PM Re: New game (possibly!)
of troy Carpal Tunnel Registered: 10/17/00 Posts: 5400 Loc: rego park	M-W10th-- picayune picnic-- a rather small, insipid meal eaten outdoors. _________________________ my other obsession
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#74818 - 07/04/02 12:49 PM Re: New game (possibly!)
tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Registered: 04/03/00 Posts: 10463 Loc: this too shall pass	at the risk of permanently infecting the game.. gonorreal goodyear - inflammation of the blimp [Webster's new 20th century.. unabr.]
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#74819 - 07/04/02 12:55 PM Re: New game (possibly!)
tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Registered: 04/03/00 Posts: 10463 Loc: this too shall pass	at the risk of trivializing the game.. firkytoodling floccinaucinihilipilification - worthless foreplay [Mrs. Byrne's Dictionary of unusual, obscure and preposterous words]
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#74820 - 07/04/02 12:55 PM Re: New game (possibly!)
consuelo Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/11/01 Posts: 2636 Loc: Caribbean	All from MW9th ramble range- The amount of territory I can cover when I get a case of "itchy feet" That Travellin' Jones latterday laving- A relaxing soak in a tub at the end of the day execution exibit- museum wing devoted to putting people down six feet under, that is pomatum poodle- a poodle with every single hair in place scrim scuffling- a backlit staging of a struggle for physical superiority petrographer phantom- Waltzing ghost of the Lost Dutchman Mine fruit bat fugu- rare sushi dish eaten while hanging upside down
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