Well this one has sparked a lot of comments! Have fun choosing between all of these wonderful daffys...voting closes next week (11th February).
I look forward to the discussions on these...have fun and, as always...
HAPPY HUNTING
A toozle – the screw that holds together the two blades of a pair of scissors
B toozle – in Scotland, with golf, when a tee-off goes awry
C toozle – to pull about, especially applied to any rough dalliance with a female
D toozle – n., [< Hung. ducel, leaf] a confetti particle with multiple bends applied to induce spinning as it falls
E toozle – to muss up playfully (var. of tousle)
F toozle – a South African drink made of fermented rooibos, (rooibosch), tea and local herbs
G toozle – Toozle Sticks are small sticks, commonly made of plastic, used to stir mixed drinks or garnish cocktails. The pointed end is designed to skewer fruit and the decorative heads are shaped like palm trees, flamingos and tropical fruits. The toozle portion of the toozle stick name originated from the Caribbean cocktail, Rum Toozle
H toozle – a small Scottish fipple flute, similar to a penny whistle but usually made of wood
I toozle – a blacksmith tool used to spread hot coals
J toozle - vb to persuade someone to do something illegal; n a fraudful deal
K too-zle – v. 1. To dishevel or disarrange, as with hair. Variant of "tousle" [OE]
L toozle – a blend of too and puzzle, meaning: confuse someone again (and again), usually causing even more confusion
Oooh. There's some nice ones in there.
This is the only way to do it:
Eenie meenie macaraca rare ra domanica knickabocka lolly poppa om pom push.
D for me please
E and K.. et sic de similibus - tends to reduce the list somewhat..
I'm going with D
I like the Hungarian notion of how to do confetti.
I like I.
but C is probably the sexiest def we've ever had!
Yes, and that's the Armil theory again...that just suffered two consecutive counterexamples...
Gotta think about this one a bit.
First, a confession: the one I submitted was actually suggested by my husband, as I simply could not think of anything, and he is very good at Balderdash. P'raps you all would be willing to allow a substitute player for this round? [batting eyes prettily e]
I vote for C.
Before I vote I would like to ask if it would be possible to keep the initial headline of the topic intact or at least keep it regocnizable. I've been looking all over the place to find the results. Curse, gnar, drat, woof toozle and all.
Great and difficult choice of nice ones!
Its puzzling how two daffynitions ended up with similar meaning...I'm guessing they are the original concept.
But I really like L its brilliant and should be a new word, well I'm going to use it....toozling isn't it.
Me takes I . Just to be perverse.
A scissor's screw is only half a screw. If half a screw is a toozle it could be A
Where are you looking, Dear One? My page for the W & F forum shows: "Voting has opened on TOOZLE".
If you scroll up, Jackie, you'll see it got changed to something about a hairdresser for a bit. It threw me off, too, so Bran has company in her frustration!
I'm going with the Scots on this one; I'll take H.
My page for the W & F forum shows: "Voting has opened on TOOZLE".My WF page shows it too, but I hardly use it. I always jump straight to 'active topics' where I know what's running. (unless it's been diguised)
Not a heartbraking issue; I'll remember checking the W&F.
believe it or else: in more than ten years of (over)use of these forums, I have *never* clicked on "Active Topics"† - thus my utter confusion at this plaint.
-joe btfsplk
† - FWIW, or for the rookies, when I reach the WTalk homepage via bookmark, I immediately know if there are any new messages from the first column in the General Topics table. if that icon is colored (yellow), then you have new posts to read. if you click on the respective forum name, the next page shows unread subjects, again with a yellow icon in column one. clicking on such a subject takes you to the first unread post therein, and bobsyeruncle.
Utter confusion? That's worse than what I had. Both on the yellow flapped General Topics and Active Topics when someone changed the initial title of a topic it means searching unless it becomes obvious from the contents of the post (as in the anagram game). Only on Forums the topic title stays unchangeable. Just ask * Twosleepy * .
sorry for being obtuse on this minor point, but if I see there is a new post(s) in 'Wordplay and fun', then go there, I quickly can see if there is a new post(s) in 'Voting has opened on Toozle'
don't you play the anagrams game, where the title is ever-changing?!
I toyed with that one as well. Blacksmiths fascinate me.
I really enjoy watching them in Old TV Westerns.
I always jump straight to 'active topics' I have never done this, either! I open it to the screen that lists all of the forums (I&A, Q&A, etc.) then go to the ones with the yellow flags.
I guess whatever works for a person to get where they are
going.
......
don't you play the anagrams game, where the title is ever-changing?!
I'll answer that for Bran.....yes she does, but not as regularly as the rest of us that just love the 'extra twist' with the answers we come up with.
Sorry if it confuses things for everybody else.
Thank you Candy but what's more interesting,
are the
VOTES rolling in?
You pleases me too.
u pleases me too.
(Hope the votes are rolling in quickly)
Call me a visibility freak but I pull toozle back within sight;
9 votes, some more to go.
......at least three more, I'll be toozling my thumbs till the results are counted.
I'll pick M: None of the above,
but since that's not an option, B.
'Good job all.
Toozzole??
Reminds me of some Italian Pasta dish.
V for Voting results. What's happening to the hog?
He's been sick. I am sure he will be on it soon.
has Bex got the dreaded fluoozle? I hear its very contagious this time of year.
Get well soon Bex and look after yourself, don't worry about us here...we can wait.
Yep, he's fluoozled or otherwise
got toozle-itis of some form.
Sorry to hear. We'll practise all the patience the patient needs.
He gets a good dose of medicine here, as it is,
so, patience it is.
Haha! I'm much better now and I have posted the results...
Stay well, now, you hear??
Christopher Robin
Had wheezles
And sneezles,
They bundled him
Into
His bed.
They gave him what goes
With a cold in the nose,
And some more for a cold
In the head.
They wondered
If wheezles
Could turn
Into measles,
If sneezles
Would turn
Into mumps;
They examined his chest
For a rash,
And the rest
Of his body for swellings and lumps.
They sent for some doctors
In sneezles
And wheezles
To tell them what ought
To be done.
All sorts and conditions
Of famous physicians
Came hurrying round
At a run.
They all made a note
Of the state of his throat,
They asked if he suffered from thirst;
They asked if the sneezles
Came after the wheezles,
Or if the first sneezle
Came first.
They said, "If you teazle
A sneezle
Or wheezle,
A measle
May easily grow.
But humour or pleazle
The wheezle
Or sneezle,
The measle
Will certainly go."
They expounded the reazles
For sneezles
And wheezles,
The manner of measles
When new.
They said "If he freezles
In draughts and in breezles,
Then PHTHEEZLES
May even ensue."
Christopher Robin
Got up in the morning,
The sneezles had vanished away.
And the look in his eye
Seemed to say to the sky,
"Now, how to amuse them to-day?"
A.A. Milne
A right fun old piece of rhyme. Glad you dug that
out, good to see it again. Good old Christopher Robin.