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iggri/iggry
choose one:
(entries from Fiberbabe, belM, ElizabethC, dxb, Bingley, Faldage, Sparteye, ASp, wofa, maverick, tsuwm, WO’N, Capfka, musick, Zed & a usually reliable source)
a) a Polynesian bridal wrap []
b) a type of lighting filter used in movie-making; it enables the filming of evening outdoor scenes in bright daylight. []
c) a lizard-like undersea monster prevalent in the Old Icelandic eddas. []
d) describes a solid which when struck with sufficient force will break into smaller rounded pieces; tempered glass and some aggregate stones said to be iggri. []
e) the metal fitting joining a pencil and its eraser []
f) a riding jacket, worn in India; analogous to jodhpurs. []
g) [intj.] Hurry up! also as n. in phrase to get an iggri on. []
h) apophatic []
i) archaic the habitual domination of conversation by a boor []
j) a tool used to remove stones from sheep's hooves; from the Basque word for "fingers." []
k) to move slowly, often as a manifestation of depression; to mope. []
l) the seed linings of a pomegranate. []
m) a tendency to protein deficiency associated with particular lymphatic disorders, found mainly among some peoples from the Indian sub-continent. []
n) Egyptian term for sloth, esp. in government bureaucracy adopted into English during the colonial period as a word to describe the byzantine complexity of bureaucratic decision-making and the glacial speed at which government decisions are made. []
o) a type of thieves’ argot or back-slang developed in the Chicago stockyards and much used in the early 19th C; the final letter was removed and placed at the front of the word preceded by a randomly chosen vowel. -- the true name for the argot would thus have been Grig or Gryg and is thought to be a corruption of Greek, the idea deriving from the expression “it’s all Greek to me”. []
p) dialect a particularly treacherous Icelandic terrain consisting of small, weathered bits of lava overlying the sharper, sloped lava bed from which they have been detached. []
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oh, I do like i, but give me a p...
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Awww. The addition of the spelling with the "Y" makes it very difficult.
With the "I" alone it could have been a thing, but with the "Y" it can also mean something's condition (i.e. fun/funny)
*sigh*
Hazarding a guess...I say "D"
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What the L.
l) the seed linings of a pomegranate. []
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I like i too, but I'll take e
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I, too, like i and think it'd be a quite useful word to utilize [sic] around here. Meanwhile, the Basque j is quite appealing, as are the two Icelandics.
I'm going with o for the sheer absurd creativity yet almost-believability.
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Tempted by J but I'll have to take D also, he said piecefully.
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I wonder if I should run an extortion racket - "pay me or I'll pick the same one you do!"
Since I'm too nice for that sort of nastiness, I shall get in first, and put my unique kibosh on the letter M, thank you very much.
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darn, I was gonna go for M! - there's definitely something tugging at my half-memory there. OK, O is wonderfully inventive (I suspect musick), P is an obvious contender (though what does the syncronicity of another Icelandic reference and another 'bits of rock' daftynition indicate if anything?!)... N is splendid (I accuse Dixbie, in the Library, with the Dictionary!), and as for "the habitual domination of conversation by a boor", well give that person a gold medal! Does that make the perpetraitor [sic] an iggrianus?
OK, ok, I'll go for the pomegranate. No, the lizard. No, the slow-moving depression... fits my mood
OK already, I'll remove the polynesian bridal wrap. nobut, yeahbut, nobut gimme C.
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What the hey, I'll vote J.
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(though what does the syncronicity of another Icelandic reference and another 'bits of rock' daftynition indicate if anything?!).
I wondered if that was kinda like the way tsuwm's monsters tend to be a bit like the real definition of the word - some kind of lexicographical leakage, perhaps?
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I'll say e but only because odd little bits like that should have odd little names.
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> Very inveNtive. Hi mav!
ooooh, he's trolling a double-bluff now :)
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bonus points for whomever of these dilatory souls posts here first (i.e., not last): Bingley, F'babe, musick
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for whomever of these dilatory souls posts here
Bad tsuwm. That should be whoever
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OK, as the last dilatory soul, I'll pick J, although I'm quite fond of L and will throw a perfect fit if that ends up being the right answer! [/promises, promises] If it's not the right answer, then props to whoever almost had me. 
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okay, I think that's everyone that had an entry, which must be some sort of record response (less than three(3) days)!
I'll post the results as soon as I get a chance to edit the names into the file. meanwhile, the rest of you lurkers can take a SWAG.
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