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Originally posted by Proofreader:
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Annnnd the wiener is:

1. A Greek dybbuk

Haberdasher's entry #1. Nobody sprang for it.

2. Narcissistic; feeling like one is the center of the universe.

Kalleh's contrivance. No takers.


3. A pseudo-intellectual word, describing the jerking movements made by a car when the transmission needs servicing (or the clutch is used ineptly)

Habberdasher's second effort, again fooling nobody.

4. Self-harming, usually as a result of substance abuse.

arnie's submission, which arnie picked. Hmmmm... trying to throw us off, are we? :-)

5. A form of radical therapy which chemically removes or inhibits malignant thoughts from those with a severe psychosis, similar to brainwashing.

Proofreader's brainstorm here.

6. Existing at its point of origin, indigenous.

The real thing. Hab, B35 and Kalleh all got it.

7. self-sustaining fishery (Greco-Roman, first use recorded 16thc. England)

B35's suggestion.

8. Self-deprecating, as in humour.

zmježd submitted this one, duping Proofreader.

9. Self-replicating.

No-one submitted this one - it just appeared spontaneously, but Tinman picked it.

10. In throat singing, the sustaining base pitch.

My own submission, which Bea liked.

Kudos to those who knew it, and to those who knew but pretended they didn't! :-)

Bea, if you want to have a go at this, just find an obscure word that appears in any English dictionary, and post it. We'll PM you with "daffynitions," fanciful definitions. You then post them, plus the real one, and see what happens.