iggri defined - 07/11/05 12:40 AM
iggri/iggry
choose one:
(entries from Fiberbabe, belM, ElizabethC, dxb, Bingley, Faldage, Sparteye, ASp, wofa, maverick, tsuwm, WO’N, Capfka, musick, Zed & a usually reliable source)
a) a Polynesian bridal wrap []
b) a type of lighting filter used in movie-making; it enables the filming of evening outdoor scenes in bright daylight. []
c) a lizard-like undersea monster prevalent in the Old Icelandic eddas. []
d) describes a solid which when struck with sufficient force will break into smaller rounded pieces; tempered glass and some aggregate stones said to be iggri. []
e) the metal fitting joining a pencil and its eraser []
f) a riding jacket, worn in India; analogous to jodhpurs. []
g) [intj.] Hurry up! also as n. in phrase to get an iggri on. []
h) apophatic []
i) archaic the habitual domination of conversation by a boor []
j) a tool used to remove stones from sheep's hooves; from the Basque word for "fingers." []
k) to move slowly, often as a manifestation of depression; to mope. []
l) the seed linings of a pomegranate. []
m) a tendency to protein deficiency associated with particular lymphatic disorders, found mainly among some peoples from the Indian sub-continent. []
n) Egyptian term for sloth, esp. in government bureaucracy adopted into English during the colonial period as a word to describe the byzantine complexity of bureaucratic decision-making and the glacial speed at which government decisions are made. []
o) a type of thieves’ argot or back-slang developed in the Chicago stockyards and much used in the early 19th C; the final letter was removed and placed at the front of the word preceded by a randomly chosen vowel. -- the true name for the argot would thus have been Grig or Gryg and is thought to be a corruption of Greek, the idea deriving from the expression “it’s all Greek to me”. []
p) dialect a particularly treacherous Icelandic terrain consisting of small, weathered bits of lava overlying the sharper, sloped lava bed from which they have been detached. []
choose one:
(entries from Fiberbabe, belM, ElizabethC, dxb, Bingley, Faldage, Sparteye, ASp, wofa, maverick, tsuwm, WO’N, Capfka, musick, Zed & a usually reliable source)
a) a Polynesian bridal wrap []
b) a type of lighting filter used in movie-making; it enables the filming of evening outdoor scenes in bright daylight. []
c) a lizard-like undersea monster prevalent in the Old Icelandic eddas. []
d) describes a solid which when struck with sufficient force will break into smaller rounded pieces; tempered glass and some aggregate stones said to be iggri. []
e) the metal fitting joining a pencil and its eraser []
f) a riding jacket, worn in India; analogous to jodhpurs. []
g) [intj.] Hurry up! also as n. in phrase to get an iggri on. []
h) apophatic []
i) archaic the habitual domination of conversation by a boor []
j) a tool used to remove stones from sheep's hooves; from the Basque word for "fingers." []
k) to move slowly, often as a manifestation of depression; to mope. []
l) the seed linings of a pomegranate. []
m) a tendency to protein deficiency associated with particular lymphatic disorders, found mainly among some peoples from the Indian sub-continent. []
n) Egyptian term for sloth, esp. in government bureaucracy adopted into English during the colonial period as a word to describe the byzantine complexity of bureaucratic decision-making and the glacial speed at which government decisions are made. []
o) a type of thieves’ argot or back-slang developed in the Chicago stockyards and much used in the early 19th C; the final letter was removed and placed at the front of the word preceded by a randomly chosen vowel. -- the true name for the argot would thus have been Grig or Gryg and is thought to be a corruption of Greek, the idea deriving from the expression “it’s all Greek to me”. []
p) dialect a particularly treacherous Icelandic terrain consisting of small, weathered bits of lava overlying the sharper, sloped lava bed from which they have been detached. []
