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No idea what fipple is about...
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FIPPLE....that might have been the next hogwash word. I'm disappointed with my entry....I love the idea but it was tooooo long in the defining, and nobody was persuaded  though I did think someone would ask for the rum toozle cocktail recipe! Thanks Bex and everyone who participated...another great round.
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Thank you Branny for choosing the most boring daffy of the lot; thank you bex for running the round despite; thank you all for a good game.
And thank tsu-s for creating a game that Lewis Carrol would have considered for wonderland.
Alice: but I don't understand it.
Pig: You're not supposed to understand it.
Alice: but if I can't understand it, how can I play it?
Pig: You just do. We do. We all play it all the time even if we can't understand it.
Alice: curiouser... etc.
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Are we certain about the real definition? Still leaning H here. 
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>the real definition
well, you knew this was coming, right?!
from OEDonline:
/ˈtaʊz(ə)l/ Sc. /ˈtuz(ə)l/
Forms: ME, 17 tousel, (ME Sc. towsill, 16 -ell, 18 towsel), 15– tousle; 16– touzle, (17–18 towzle, 18 -zel, Sc. and north. toozle)
Etymology: Iterative of touse v.: see -le suffix 3. Compare Low German tûseln
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a. trans. To pull about roughly; to handle (esp. a woman) rudely or indelicately; to disorder, dishevel (the hair, clothes, etc.); = touse v. 1a, 1c, 2.
touse Now rare.
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a. trans. To pull roughly about; to drag or push about; to handle roughly; of a dog: to tear at, worry
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c. To pull (a woman) about rudely, indelicately, or in horse-play; to tousle. Obs.
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you can see now how Rule A came to be..
Last edited by tsuwm; 02/15/11 03:15 PM.
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Nice job Jackie.
You can all feel lucky that you didn't choose my def.
That stuff is horrible.
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I cannot accept kudos for Hubby's definition; he, however, is highly pleased! And I thank you for not disqualifying a sub. When I told him the real def., he said, "A toozle with a floozle".  Years of dalliance, I suppose, before he met you and was toozled for the last time???
----please, draw me a sheep----
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Thank you Branny for choosing the most boring daffy of the lot; thank you bex for running the round despite; thank you all for a good game.
And thank tsu-s for creating a game that Lewis Carrol would have considered for wonderland.
Alice: but I don't understand it.
Pig: You're not supposed to understand it.
Alice: but if I can't understand it, how can I play it?
Pig: You just do. We do. We all play it all the time even if we can't understand it.
Alice: curiouser... etc. There was a time when I was a counselor at a summer camp and some of the older boys invented this preposterous game with rocks, string, wood scraps and coded words, which they played for hours on end to the consternations of the younger boys. The older ones would not tell the rules (there were none)and only lamented that education was going down the drain(?) if schools did not teach this game any more. Curioser.
----please, draw me a sheep----
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So I get no points for getting a right answer? Doesn't seem fair... that's correct. the idea is to *guess* the correct def'n, from those submitted; not to *submit* the a right answer. But it really shouldn't have happened. I had no idea it was a correct definition, I was just going with my gut on what it seemed like. My submission should have been rejected so I could make another. Right?
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