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well, two requests have poured in over the last several weeks, so here, fwiw, is another round of hogwash: the word is figgumthe rules (such as they were), for the uninitiated: http://wordsmith.org/board/showthreaded.pl?Cat=&Board=wordplay&Number=29261definitions to me, via PM only*, by 11:59 PM CDT, April 15, please. *excepting Max, of course -joe (hogmaster®) sajak edit: everyone must know the rules, as that link sure didn't work (or no one dared to correct me <heh>).
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Yippee![clapping hands and dancing a little jig-e] 
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SO WHAT'S THE WORD, HOGMASTER, THE U.S. GOVERNUS IS GIVING US GENEROUS EXTENSIONS ON OUR INCOME TAX DEADLINE. DO WE GET ONE ON HOGWASH  OR NOT? 
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sorry, no extension... more entries than I can process already... and why are you shoutin' at me?!
-joe (you're overdriving my hearing aids) sajak
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choose one:
a) A fine-tuning key below the bridge and fingerboard of a stringed instrument.
b) A knot commonly used for rigging sails in the 17th century.
c) A hybrid tree.
d) The colloquial generalism used by morticians for all of the body waste that has to be removed from a body before it can be embalmed.
e) A striated body tissue arranged in segmental bands consisting of long cells that contract when stimulated and produce motion in arthropoda
f) The fire-spitting trick of a carnival performer.
g) The residue that remains caught between your teeth after eating a dried fig
h) [chiefly Brit.] 18th-century vernacular term for human head, brain (cf. noggin)
j) A jot or tittle; something very small.
k) A "fold" in the shell structure of an atom, causing a disruption in the functioning of the subatomic particles.
l) An arbitrary or fictitious entry or figure used to juggle accounts so as to produce a desired total or result.
m) A gelatinous substance, made from agricultural byproducts, used by Mennonites to lubricate farm machinery.
n) A thickened turpentine mostly used in oil paints, so named because of its color which resembles a ripe fig.
o) 1) A product of the imagination 2) something totally illusory.
p) [Printing] something omitted.
After 70 years and 414,825 words defined, it was dicovered that the word figgum was left out of the Oxford English Dictionary. James Murray simply misplaced it. The original definition, now obsolete, is - a pear tree.
r) 19th Century American colloquialism referring to suspicously erroneous bookkeeping (i.e. That's a bunch of figgum!).
s) A mischievous spirit in Scottish folklore
t) [Hatmaking term] The starched swath of material that surrounds the crown of the hat, near the rim, on which is attached the decorative accessories (e.g. feather or flowers)
[polls will remain open one (1) week]
-joe (hogmaster®) bfstplk
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O) 1) A product of the imagination 2) something totally illusory.
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