The word for this round is chalot.

Please send me your daffynitions via PM!

Wordmatic

Thanks, WM. I am glad you revitalized this game! Mine's on the way...

You're welcome. It was way past time for me to take a turn.

I've got two absolutely great ones, people. Please send yours to me via PM so that we can fool everybody!

Wordmatic

I've heard from Kalleh, Arnie, Asa, Bethree, Jerry...So I'll keep the game open until Wednesday for all the rest of you lexicographers out there, and then post the answers, real and imaginary.

Wordmatic

Post a note in the Q&A forum asking for more daffynitions! We gotta have more, MORE, MORE!!!

You have mine now

. . . and mine, too.

All right, voters: here are the defi-and-daffynitions. Only one is the correct meaning. Please cast your vote here for the one you think is correct, and all will be revealed soon!

Chalot

1. A state of melancholy.

2. Item of medieval armour designed to protect the wrist but leave the fingers free and flexible.

3. A character in French pantomime, dressed as a cat.

4. Primitive bedwarmer, predating the use of copper pans full of embers with or without wooden frames to protect the sheets. Chalots were simply bricks or stones heated on the hearth and placed in the bedclothes.

5. Loaves of yeast-leavened egg bread, usually braided, traditionally eaten by Jews on the Sabbath, holidays, and other ceremonial occasions.

6. The abbreviated Latin name for the three-toed tree toad Tripedaldigitouschalot chalot.

7. Small Belgian onion.

8. A slatternly woman; one given to crude speech.

9. A magical being said to live alone on an enchanted island near Camelot.

10. A French antique chair with fine hand-carved, beaded decor and pilaster-shaped legs.

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Experienced chefs know that almost all Belgian recipes begin "First, you take a leek ..."

Except, of course, when a small Belgian onion is called for, as in this case .... Voila ! Number Seven !! "

I'll take a guess at number 8.

It's a melancholic, slatternly small magical being who eats Belgian onions and Jewish bread while dressed in armour and pantomiming a cat in bed with a bedwarmer and a toad.

Uhhh, well, I'll take a guess at # 5

I'll guess at 1.

2, please.

But what happened to mine? It was one of my favorites. Heck, I might have even guessed it.

What happened to yours? Shucks, I though I guessed yours!

Oh, Kalleh, I am so sorry! instead of collecting the responses from my PMs, I plucked them out of my personal email, where I had filed yours neatly in another folder.

I owe you an extra beer, wine or whatever in Columbus.

Mea Culpa!

Wordmatic

No problem! But I will take that beer!

It's a deal, then!

Any more votes? Not everyone who submitted an answer has stated an opinion--AND, it is not necessary to have done so to vote!

WM

CW? Bethree?

OK already, what's the real one? Is arnie right as usual? Did I guess right by pronouncing "ch" in the back of my throat? Orrrr.....?

Oops, dropped the ball again! I'll cast another vote for #2 if there's still time.

Yes, still time Miz Three!

Well, I was waiting for CW, but she doesn't seem to be around anywhere.....Woo hoo! CW! Tell ya what, Asa, after work today I'll post 'em no matter what. Mind you, I'll probably be working late, but then you are in the extreme left half of the time zones, so you won't notice.

WM

Extreme left half? There are only two time zones? Gosh, that's news to me!

Sorry - I've been having computer trouble and have had to spend all kinds of extra time trying to solve it. It's solved now!

Ok - I guess #2

And I lied, Asa--I forgot I was going to a play on campus last night, so I was a no-show. Yes, the world is divided into two time zones: Greenwich Mean Time and Pacific Standard Time. The rest is all a confused muddle.

And now for the answers:

1. A state of melancholy--Caterwauller's happy offering tripped up Arnie.

2. Item of medieval armour designed to protect the wrist but leave the fingers free and flexible. --BobHale's flexible flier, guessed by Kalleh, bethree and Caterwauller!

3. A character in French pantomime, dressed as a cat. --Arnie's contribution made me smile, but nobody bit.

4. Primitive bedwarmer, predating the use of copper pans full of embers with or without wooden frames to protect the sheets. Chalots were simply bricks or stones heated on the hearth and placed in the bedclothes. This was bethree5's daff, and, again, no takers.

5. Loaves of yeast-leavened egg bread, usually braided, traditionally eaten by Jews on the Sabbath, holidays, and other ceremonial occasions. The actual definition, it is the plural of challah. Guessed correctly, yes, only by Asa!

6. The abbreviated Latin name for the three-toed tree toad Tripedaldigitouschalot chalot --Jerry's daft answer drew no votes.

7. Small Belgian onion. --bethree5's root vegetable entrapped Jerry.

8. A slatternly woman; one given to crude speech. -- Asa's fallen femme fooled Bob.

9. A magical being who lives alone on a mythical island. Something I threw in to fill out the list, which nobody even considered.

10. A French antique chair with fine hand-carved, beaded decor and pilaster-shaped legs. Kalleh's answer, which I slipped in after she pointed out my lapse! No one guessed, but they might have had the host been more careful.

I encountered the word "chalot" while playing Scrabulous (the pirated version of Scrabble) on Facebook. The board is engineered such that if a letter combination goes through, it means it is on The (official Scrabble) Word List. I have found many unusual and unheard of words in this way. I looked it up and was surprised to find it wasn't some kind of Swiss ski lodge. Even my Jewish colleagues who had heard of the plural of challah all their lives and never seen it spelled and were surprised at it. I could not find anything about the origin of that spelling, though. It is from the Yiddish.

Wordmatic

DAMN!!! This is an historic moment. It is the first time arnie, who almost always gets them right, has missed two in a row! Arnie, have you been ill?

Hey, don't make Arnie feel bad for being 0.00001 times as "bad" as the rest of us!