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Posted By: Flatlander Hogwash - sweven - VOTE NOW - 06/06/01 04:25 PM
At the request of Sparteye, I will administer a couple of rounds of Hogwash (I think she just wants to keep me from getting too many points). Send me your definitions by Friday, June 8 at 4:00 pm EDT, and be ready for a new word Friday morning. I'm going to limit the number of definitions to twenty (20), though, so don't wait until the last minute. The word is:

sweven

** THE DEFINITIONS **

A. A notch cut in pieces of a garment to assure that seams are assembled correctly.

B. The pluperfect form of the obsolete verb swive, to copulate with.

C. The overflow from the crucible that holds the molten metal during bronze casting.

D. To induce a vertiginous state; to make dizzy or confused (usually passive).

E. A sauce from Sweden.

F. An obsolete word for swept.

G. A vision or dream.

H. (adj.) Used to describe one who is wholly consumed with thoughts of another, particularly one who is inaccessible.

I. To follow a direct unswerving path, originally from SW - even.

J. The fulcrum of a seesaw.

K. Diagonally across from, cater-corner.

L. A flat-bottomed boat of Scandinanvian origin.

M. Puffed up, prideful display.

N. In the Wiccan faith, a circle of seven covens who practice together.

Vote by Monday morning, y'all. The only quirk this time is that two bluff definitions were very similar. I have combined the two into one, so as not to make them obvious, and if anyone votes for that definition, both submitters will score points. Sound fair? Well, too bad.
Posted By: tsuwm Re: Hogwash - June 6, 2001 - 06/06/01 04:56 PM
(I think she just wants to keep me from getting too many points)

as sparteye has ably demonstrated, this need not be a hindrance to garnering BIG points.

Posted By: Jazzoctopus Re: Hogwash - sweven - VOTE NOW - 06/08/01 10:05 PM
Well, I'm a little peeved that I didn't get to submit a definition because I read the cut-off time wrong, but I think I'll go with C.

At least I get to be the first to guess . . . as if that's a perk.

Posted By: wordcrazy Re: Hogwash - sweven - VOTE NOW - 06/08/01 10:14 PM
I have not the vaguest, so it must be "J"!

chronist
Posted By: Max Quordlepleen - 06/08/01 10:20 PM


Posted By: AnnaStrophic Re: Hogwash - sweven - VOTE NOW - 06/08/01 11:06 PM
I like, and therefore vote for B

Posted By: Anonymous Re: Hogwash - sweven - VOTE NOW - 06/08/01 11:34 PM
i kinda like B

Posted By: tsuwm Re: Hogwash - sweven - VOTE NOW - 06/09/01 03:03 AM
I feel a landslide coming for B!

Posted By: paulb Re: Hogwash - sweven - VOTE NOW - 06/09/01 07:35 AM
c) for me

Posted By: Faldage Re: Hogwash - sweven - VOTE NOW - 06/09/01 03:33 PM
Put me down for G.

Posted By: Bingley Re: Hogwash - sweven - VOTE NOW - 06/10/01 08:22 AM
I'll go for j. And if it isn't j, then what pray is the fulcrum of a seesaw called (apart from fulcrum of a seesaw of course)?

Bingley
Posted By: Rapunzel Re: Hogwash - sweven - VOTE NOW - 06/10/01 11:36 PM
B

Posted By: maverick Re: Hogwash - sweven - VOTE NOW - 06/10/01 11:41 PM
Not the faintest idea, so I'm with tsuwm and b96 again!

B

Posted By: AnnaStrophic Re: Hogwash - sweven - VOTE NOW - 06/10/01 11:56 PM
Not the faintest idea, so I'm with tsuwm and b96 again!

B


Chopped liver sits calmly on the sidelines.

Posted By: maverick Re: Hogwash - sweven - VOTE NOW - 06/11/01 12:20 AM
chopped liver...

Yehbutbutbut... I know you'll have got it right (he bluffs, grovelling)

Anyways, wassamadder, I gotta read all the posts at 2 in the mornin?!?

Posted By: rodward Re: Hogwash - sweven - VOTE NOW - 06/11/01 08:36 AM
G for me
Rod

Posted By: Sparteye Re: Hogwash - sweven - VOTE NOW - 06/11/01 11:05 AM
I dunno; B is tempting, but I am a rebel. How about D? OK - D.

Posted By: nikeblack Re: Hogwash - sweven - VOTE NOW - 06/11/01 10:25 PM
These hogwash games are fun to lurk around. And, finally!! I actually know the answer.

Posted By: WhitmanO'Neill Re: Hogwash - sweven - VOTE NOW - 06/12/01 12:09 AM
Hi, folks! Just back from a software crash! (Watch out for Windows ME, it picks up "things" that damage the files...I had to restore my hard-drive, so if you're running it copy everything important!

Guess I just missed the vote...but I'll venture C just for the record.

Posted By: rodward Re: Hogwash - sweven - VOTE NOW - 06/12/01 08:23 AM
And, finally!! I actually know the answer

Is it considered "bad form" to vote if you know rather than guess or infer the answer? Or is this perfectly legal?

Rod

Posted By: maverick Re: Hogwash - sweven - VOTE NOW - 06/12/01 09:14 AM
I would have thought there's no problem unless stating 'I know this to be true'. And even then, thinking aloud, people are free to decide the metatruth of the assertion ("maybe she's bluffin' me into her daftinition...!")

Posted By: WhitmanO'Neill Re: Hogwash - sweven - VOTE NOW - 06/12/01 05:31 PM
(maybe she's bluffin' me into her daftinition...!)

Good point, maverick!...for, as we all know from a previous thread, many of us here are Master "Sandbaggers!" It's all part of the game! So, go ahead...let them think you're holding a good hand!

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