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Why would one want to know the real def. to the hogwash word?  It takes the fun out of playing.
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>What means w.m. ?
Word Master?
that's wwftd master to you, bub!
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"Your word is hastilude. You have a sennight."Last call for all scubbers I think is tonight at midnight? If I remember tsuwm's worthless word for the day on July 26, 2002, the word "sennight" means "six nights" which means "tonight". I think. Go ahead and accuse me of gauche hastilude if you will but I was one of the first to send in my entry. 
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" sennight: (n.) The space of seven nights and days; a week. (This definition is from the 1913 Webster's Dictionary and may be outdated.)"
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a better device for remembering sennight is its derivation from "se'n(7) nights" 
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Could have been worse. Don't the French call the same period a "huitaine," which ("huit" meaning "eight") sounds even longer?
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Are you boys sure you are right? We already had a name for a "week". A week was called a "week". Calling a "week" a "sennight" is like finding another name for a "dozen dunkin' donuts". What I think is that tsuwm's "worthless word" got "sennight" confused with "sextantnight" which was the one night of the week that the ancient Victorians engaged in carnal sex. And wofahulicodoc is right too. A "huitaine" is eight days - the prescribed length of time between the wild sexual encounters of the wild Victorian French. Hey! Maybe a " hastilude" is the lenght of time that the Victorian Inuits waited until...,you know, the days are a lot longer up at the North pole and so...  Maybe we should just go and ask Hogmaster Bingley.
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>We already had a name for a "week".
actualment®, we had a name for 7 nights (and days) and "week" (seven days (and nights)) came along and archaicized it.
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Could have been worse. Don't the French call the same period a "huitaine," which ("huit" meaning "eight") sounds even longer?
When we refer to a two-week period in Spanish, we say "fifteen days".
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When we refer to a two-week period in Spanish, we say "fifteen days".
This is, may I assume, similar to the way the days were counted at the time of the crucifixion of Christ? He was crucified on a Friday, raised from the dead on Sunday, which is counted as the third day. Here in the West we would call Sunday the second day as it is the second day after Friday.
So the end of a two-week period in your terminology is the end of the 15th day including today?
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