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Our pal dxb isn't getting what's due.
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*poof*
note to maverick: closely reasoned guess there, mav -- too bad that ultimately it came down to a blown 50/50 chance. next time try Occam's razor perhaps?
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Thanks again for being such a gracious host.
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buggrit! oh, well, there was no end-play available... ;)
~ and anywise, I'm glad to have donated a point to the cunning ASp ~ now I only owe her a few more than forty :)
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Oh--NOW I see you've posted the votes, and this time I could actually tell which one was the correct solution.  You know, something just told me that WO'N had voted for his own def.!
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Well, I was fooled by that weird-looking combination of letters ~ strange how it looks more ungainly than it sounds, isn't it? But I have been interested by some of the other cuckoo words from the same nest...
gowk, n
Orig. Sc. and north. dial.
[a. ON. gaukr = OE. ¼éac (see yeke), OHG. gouh (MHG. gouch, G. gauch):—OTeut. *gauko-z.]
1. The cuckoo.
2. A fool: a half-witted person. [So G. gauch.]
3. Phrases. to give the gowk to: to befool. to hunt the gowk: to go on a fool's errand.
4. attrib. and Comb. esp. with gen. gowk's, as gowk's-errand = fool's-errand (see errand 2c); gowk('s)-meat, gowk-oats (see quots.); gowk's-spittle = cuckoo-spit2; gowk's-storm, †(a) a storm of short duration; (b) a spring gale which occurs at the time of the cuckoo's arrival. Also gowk-like a., foolish.
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Our pal dxb isn't getting what's due.Thanks musick. Modesty forbad(e) that I should point it out myself .
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 40 what, Mav? Dare I ASk?
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did I mention that, in the matter of keeping score (if we were doing that outmoded sort of thing), [blink]dxb[/blink] was the overall winner?!
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