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---------------The hog is loose, bless spring coming.

The official definition is taken with making a spelling mistake from Collins Anniversary edition 2007. (also check Dictionary/Thesaurus, onelook)

Father Steve:
n., archaic Scots term for whole oats cooked with beer and butter. 2) Jackie, Faldage

Jackie :
n. a patch of quicksand (or similar) between the hillocks of a swamp. 1) LukeJavan8

Owlbow:
n.a geological land feature formed by an oceanic eddy;
when the sea level recedes the depression left behind is termed a grough. 1) Father Steve

Bexter :
n.a drink made with water or "small beer" and rum, which was introduced into the Royal Navy in 1740. Pronounced grog

olly:
v.to speak a muffled word into ones hand as if to cough. 1)Avy

Faldage :
n.a small burrowing North American marsupial, related to the opossum. 1) Candy

LukeJavan8 : grough
n.a road surface marked with potholes. 1) tsuwm

wofahulicodoc:
n.(pronounced "grok") - to understand thoroughy and completely, to the deepest essence. A Martian word, coined by Robert Heinlein in Stranger in a Strange Land; it became a cult word in the Science Fiction world in the 1960s.

Avy :
v. to plant (something) again or in a new place.1)Bufflo Shrdlu

Collins English Dictionary '175 years of dictionar publishing' edition 2007 :
n. mounteneering mountaineering a natural channel or fissure in a peat moor; a peat hag. 2)Bexter, Owlbow ( I'm glad Owlbow and Bexter did not suffer from the misspelling)

Candy: A method of stone construction which produces a vaulted ceiling.1) wofaholicodoc

So here you all are, Father Steve, Owlbow and LukeJavan8 have two points even if the points don't count. And many have 1.

Thank you all participants, it was work but also a pleasure.
The real definition is 2 points in the negative, but the Hog is happy to jump to muddy waters.

Yes, I was wrong, its mountaineering!! Hurray! Ahoy! Busy times or soft in the head from now on? Thank God this did not happen at the French Court in the 18th Century. It would have meant banishment for life to the New World.
*The deepest essence however is whether things are fun and whether you feel yourself a stranger in a strange land or not. (thanks wofaholicodoc)

Ha...great round Bran.

and don't worry about the spelling....fire the proof readers

We are all our own worst proofreaders.

Thanks buffy for your vote.
Thanks bran for a wonderful round. I loved your narration. You made it like an ancient ritual. Had fun.

Yeah, this was fun--thank you!

Edit: by the way, is it pronounced grow (with the ow as in ouch), grow (with the ow as in oh), gruff...or something else altogether?

I think that not giving a pronunciation left things wide open for our definers.

as to..
SIR CEART PRIESE GROUGH, BARONET, OF THOVE
Ough in Grough may be pronounced in any one of the eight ways above enumerated; so our baronet's patronymic may be Grau, Gro, Groo, or Grou; Grof, Gruf, Groh, or Grup.
- Chamber's Edinburgh Journal, Oct. 5, 1844

Huh. The Chambers that Jo gave me--the 2000 edition--doesn't even have it: it goes from grouch to ground.

Thank you Candy, I know I should start using an automatic spelling checker. Thanks for letting me know about the 'many'.*|*

pity there isn't a PATCH for that!

which is why it has been so difficult to trace my ancestry beyond these North American shores...

Really great round, Bran, thanks a lot.

CEART link happens to be the name of an Irish spell checker. Have you searched well enough in Ireland?

Luke gets promoted into the 2 pointers as I also voted for that def along with Tsuwm 'Irony'.

And I like that Brannie misspelled misspell.

Don't I get a quarter-point for coming up with a ninth pronunciation for "-ough" ?

Ha, I was already surprised with the fact that all seemed allright with the counting. Luke, hurray, olly fortunately càn count.

Wofaholicodoc would have had my vote if I could have voted. It really was the abundance and deepness of thought that was refreshing. I would say 1. and a quarter point in all.

Faldage, this is no misspel, oh no, but the titel box's limitations. I thought well, take a hike with all your misspelling about misspells. Just swallow it.

( Luke, results have been edited)

I am honored to have garnered your vote Father Steve.

I don’t know about Bexter, but I’ve been suffering at the hands of Miss Spelling all my life.

Thanks Bran for a wonderful round.

Thank you, thank you very much.

Ha, I was already surprised with the fact that all seemed allright with the counting. Luke, hurray, olly fortunately càn count.


A really good man that Olly, yessiree. I had not a doubt
that he could count.

Wofa's daffy was my first choice then a bird chirped when I was reading Olly's definition and I chose his instead. Now I'm thinking I made a mistake...

Yes, but do you grok it?

Good stuff Bran.

Congratulation Luke (if they are aloud in a game 'where the points don't matter') well played.

And thanks Wofa for your confident vote....you can't know how hard I slaved and sweated on that daff and in the end had to send it in at the eleventh hour cause Bran was waiting.....

I look forward to every "daffynition" game.

I thought it might have been a deliberate mistake to throw us off the scent...hence my vote...it seems I have triple bluffed myself...

Thanks Bran for a brilliant round!