Hogwash polls are open for gylany - 08/14/01 08:44 AM
The definitions are:
1. the act of transvestitism; cross-dressing
2. Most Scottish Lairds used men as their servants on sporting trips - Ghyllies (Gaellic for servant) but a very small number used both men and women in this job. Such a system was known as a "Gylany" (or "ghyllany")
3. an act of treachery; a trick or subterfuge
4. the smallest unit of Rumanian currency; now virt. obs
5.An adjective to describe a gentle, caressing gesture similar to the tender touch a mother gives her newborn infant.
6. wary, suspicious, particularly of somebody's real intentions or motives.
7. An ankle chain or shackle typically used to fetter elephants
8.The interaction of the laws of balance and suspension that keep tight-rope walkers from falling (for instance).
9.The urge to rearrange furniture.
10. A society in which the sexes are of equal status, neither a patriarchy nor a matriarchy.
11. Pronounced gi LAH nee. Used for an item whose real name has been temporarily forgotten, a thingy, whatsit.
Caradea and tsuwm sent in very similar definitions, so I have combined them. Definitions supplied by:
Bingley; Brandon; Flatlander; paulb; RhubarbCommando; rodward; squid; tsuwm/caradea; Whitman O’Neill; wordcrazy.
Please vote before 12 noon WIB on Friday 17 August (Indonesian Independence Day), = 5 a.m. GMT = midnight Thurs/Fri board time.
Bingley
1. the act of transvestitism; cross-dressing
2. Most Scottish Lairds used men as their servants on sporting trips - Ghyllies (Gaellic for servant) but a very small number used both men and women in this job. Such a system was known as a "Gylany" (or "ghyllany")
3. an act of treachery; a trick or subterfuge
4. the smallest unit of Rumanian currency; now virt. obs
5.An adjective to describe a gentle, caressing gesture similar to the tender touch a mother gives her newborn infant.
6. wary, suspicious, particularly of somebody's real intentions or motives.
7. An ankle chain or shackle typically used to fetter elephants
8.The interaction of the laws of balance and suspension that keep tight-rope walkers from falling (for instance).
9.The urge to rearrange furniture.
10. A society in which the sexes are of equal status, neither a patriarchy nor a matriarchy.
11. Pronounced gi LAH nee. Used for an item whose real name has been temporarily forgotten, a thingy, whatsit.
Caradea and tsuwm sent in very similar definitions, so I have combined them. Definitions supplied by:
Bingley; Brandon; Flatlander; paulb; RhubarbCommando; rodward; squid; tsuwm/caradea; Whitman O’Neill; wordcrazy.
Please vote before 12 noon WIB on Friday 17 August (Indonesian Independence Day), = 5 a.m. GMT = midnight Thurs/Fri board time.
Bingley
