I'll not fool arnie, but maybe I can fool a few of you with ghrelin.

Sand daffynitions via PM, please!

Thanks, Asa. Mine's on the way...

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I'll not fool arnie

Don't be so sure. I have no idea what this word means so if I get it right it will be pure luck. I'll send you my daffynition in a few minutes.

Oh, we all trust you to get it right. You'll remember some ancient Latin rule, or something.

That would only work on a word from ancient Latin. It doesn't look like a Latin word to me. However, we'll have to wait for the daffynitions!

May I please have a few more daffynitions of this word? Pretty pleeeeeeze?

Oh, good--I didn't miss the vote. I was out of town at a conference for most of the week and just realized I needed to visit Wordcraft.

You have mine, Asa, and so long ago I don't even remember what I wrote! hmmmmm. A bad sign.

Wordmatic

I'm hoping to get a couple more before I post the daffynitions. How about some of you new folks? Or more old folks? Anybody else? Pleeeeeeease?

It appears that this game is dead, or at least moribund. I'll post such daffynitions as I have, plus a few of my own creation, and hope that someone else will have better success than I've had.

1. Ghrelin: In Malaysian mythology, a spirit guardian, especially of those who hunt and fish

2. Ghrelin: Celtic animal spirit

3. Ghrelin: Process that improves on the Hunter method of titanium extraction from titanium tetrachloride. Eponymous, after Alexei I. Ghrelin

4. Ghrelin: The opening in the mouth of a gargoyle used as a water drain pipe

5. Ghrelin: Hormone that stimulates appetite

6. Ghrelin: Teutonic legendary heroines

7. Ghrelin: An invasive weed in parts of North America that proliferates in human-distributed areas such as agricultural fields, lawns, roadsides, and construction sites

8. Ghrelin: Late Neolithic burial mound in Ireland

9. Ghrelin: Abnormal constituent of heparin in obese persons

That's all, folks. Pick the real ghrelin from the imposters.

These Bluffing Games seem to ebb and flow, Asa. It's a natural phenomenon, perhaps worthy of a doctoral dissertation! At any rate, we've all been there.

I will choose number 8.

Hmmmm...

I had a theory (before the list was published) that it might be a hormone, by analogy with heparin, etc. However, both 5. and 9. seem to cover close to the same ground. I'm therefore bereft of ideas. Jumping on one at random, then, I'll try 4.

I have no idea if there is a word for definition 4 but there certainly ought to be so that's the one I'll pick.

I like that Celtic animal spirit, so I'll take #2, but I'm tempted to take #1. still, I'll stick with 2.

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results are trickling in, and I should really wait a bit longer, but I just can't help myself..
but I will try to mask this: in ref to #4, a gargoyle generally *is* a spout that terminates in a grotesquely carved figure

Tsuwm, these days grotesque spouting figures are called politicians. I wish you had submitted a daffynition!

I'll post the results on the morrow.

Here are the results of this round:

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1. Ghrelin: In Malaysian mythology, a spirit guardian, especially of those who hunt and fish

Wordmatic tried to waylay us with Malay.

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2. Ghrelin: Celtic animal spirit

Bob Hale's spirit seduced Wordmatic. [/quote]

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3. Ghrelin: Process that improves on the Hunter method of titanium extraction from titanium tetrachloride. Eponymous, after Alexei I. Ghrelin

I fooled nobody with this metallurgic malarkey.[/quote]

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4. Ghrelin: The opening in the mouth of a gargoyle used as a water drain pipe

Another one I tossed in, and fooled even arnie! Also Bob and Jerry.[/quote]

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5. Ghrelin: Hormone that stimulates appetite

The real thing! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ghrelin

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6. Ghrelin: Teutonic legendary heroines

Jerry's dream girls.

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7. Ghrelin: An invasive weed in parts of North America that proliferates in human-distributed areas such as agricultural fields, lawns, roadsides, and construction sites

Kalleh's version of kudzu, I recon!

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8. Ghrelin: Late Neolithic burial mound in Ireland

This is my favorite daffynition, compliments of arnie. Kalleh liked it too!

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9. Ghrelin: Abnormal constituent of heparin in obese persons

Another that I concocted - and it's not similar to ghrelin, although one can't fault arnie's logic!

I've been whining to Asa privately...I should have known that word. I did know it at some point. Why I didn't get it is beyond me! I suspect that my brain is 180 degrees different from arnie's. He can get them when he has the slightest hint. Me? I can have the dictionary open to the word and I won't get it!

Congrats, Asa!

Pyrrhic victory, Kalleh, since so few participated. Sure, fooling arnie IS a big deal, but it's tempered by my knowledge that he DID have a notion about the proper definition, and we had so few participants.

I still think "ghrelin" sounds more like a spirit protector than a hormone.

But then, I am not an endocrinologist, nor do I play one on TV.

As for numbers in the game, March is one of the busiest months of the year for people with kids in school, and even for those of us whose offspring are grown. The "hordes" of summer will be back.

Wordmatic

Agreed, WM. March is always the busiest month of the year for me...hey...that's my excuse for not getting the correct answer even though I knew the word!