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wangary
a) soft and flabby; term used in butchery to express the condition of meat which will not get solid [Specimens of English Dialect (1778)]
b) [street slang] term of unknown origin used to refer to nondescript graffiti found on billboards and transit vehicles [ron obvious] Bingley, WO’N(!)
c) a boat for conveying provisions, tools, etc. – so called by Australian aborigines [Coffeebean]
d) a furnace consisting of a special hearth where molten glass is developed before shaping by glassblowers [Wordwind] bel, max, Coffebean, wofa
e) Australasian witchcraft; similar to Haitian voudou and Brazilian candomblé [origin unknown; possibly from an island creole] [Asp]
f) the building in which threshing is performed [consuelo] ASp
g) cheeky, impish. (from wang - cheek, molar) [sjmaxq] hev
h) off kilter, askew, missing the target (Australian, origin obscure) [Maverick] Jackie, consuelo
i) the study of blagging/getting something for nothing. to wangle, a wangler, wangary [dodyskin] Wordwind
j) penile phantasmagoria [WO’N] (an Ack! from Jackie)
k) a type of greatcoat worn by coach drivers [Bingley] Faldage, maverick
l) a slang term of Australian origin: "he's gone wangary" ie he has been driven mad by isolation after extended periods living alone in the Outback. In other countries refered to as "cabin fever" or "going bush". [Zed] etaoin, sandbar
m) a tree-dwelling kangaroo of Australia, with a lighter pelt than the boongary, with which it shares genetic lineage [etaoin]
n) a Medieval science, concerned with the search for perpetual motion (cf. alchemy, the search for a means to transmute base metals into gold) [wofa]
o) refers to a person who has an unconscionable amount of jaw movement. From the Old English Wang, meaning jaw. In modern English, it means someone who talks too much, to the annoyance of others. [hev] musick
p) a term used by the IT industry when referring to technology (machinery and wiring) that is needed to accomplish point-to-point data communications, but is owned by and subsequently outsourced from your ISP/local telecommunications company [musick] dodyskin
q) Appalachian dial., Topsy-turvy; cattywampus. Everthang's gone all wangary round about here since Jeb come back from that fancy school of hisn. [Faldage] Zed
many were chosen, but none was correct; Wordwind collected 3.5 votes and the hogmaster® collected 2 votes + the skunk.
the armil® award is shared by all of those (five!?) who made some sort of oz connection. this was actually (if I counted correctly) round 43.
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h. (j =  ! Ack.)
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