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OK, let me have your daffynitions by PM please for sordine.


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Sent mine.

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Mine, too.
 
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Well, Arnie, when are we going to find out if sordines come in a little tin with a key on the back????

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Aren't they angry university officials ??
 
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Five daffynitions received so far. Any more takers? Last call!


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Isn't "Sordine" the name of a scandalous French woman?
 
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you're thinking of Sordide!
 
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Daffynitions for sordine:
  1. A type of medieval plainsong
  2. a coarse but strong clothing, made to protect against soiling those doing dirty work (cleaning slop buckets, removing the bodies of victims of the plague, etc - cf. "dungarees")
  3. A damper. a cone-shaped mute for a trumpet
  4. Causing evacuation or emission. From F. sortir, leave, depart
  5. left handed
  6. unstable, moody
  7. a variety of pansy found only in Iceland
  8. a medieval refuse dump.
Guess away!


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Wild guess: #1.

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I'll try 6


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It's a medieval plainsong sung by unstable, moody, coarse clothing-wearing left-handed Icelandic pansies playing muted trumpets while evacuating in ye olde refuse dump. Roll Eyes

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Just so you don't think I was influenced by others, I had already chosen 1 before seeing the other choices.

It's probably wrong anyway. Roll Eyes
 
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Originally posted by Kalleh:
Just so you don't think I was influenced by others, I had already chosen 1 before seeing the other choices.


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Daffynitions and answers for sordine:
  1. A type of medieval plainsong

    Bob's effort - fooled Wordmatic, Asa Lovejoy, and Kalleh

  2. a coarse but strong clothing, made to protect against soiling those doing dirty work (cleaning slop buckets, removing the bodies of victims of the plague, etc - cf. "dungarees")

    Hab's suggestion - no takers

  3. A damper. a cone-shaped mute for a trumpet

    The true meaning - see http://home.comcast.net/~wwftd/rst.htm#sordine No-one guessed it! Smile

  4. Causing evacuation or emission. From F. sortir, leave, depart

    Asa provided this - again, no takers

  5. left handed

    jerry thomas rather sinisterly suggested this - fooling nobody

  6. unstable, moody

    Kalleh's effort - she destabilised Bob

  7. a variety of pansy found only in Iceland

    Wordmatic's offering - confusing no-one

  8. a medieval refuse dump.

    My own red herring - fooled jerry


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That may well be the best I've ever done. Smile


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  • A damper. a cone-shaped mute for a trumpet

    The true meaning - see http://home.comcast.net/~wwftd/rst.htm#sordine No-one guessed it! Smile


  • this was quite an early entry, in the "so that's what that's called" category.

    were I to enter it today, I would point out that it stems from F. sourdine and It. sordino < L. surdus, deaf (cf. surdaster(!)); and it's also a mute for stringed instruments.

    in fact, I think I'll update it later today.. Cool
     
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    Good job, Bob! I thought I had it for sure, especially after so many others had selected it. Congrats to you, too, arnie! Nice word!

    I've got next. A logophile who isn't able to take part right now has given me a word that I am hoping will have the same results. I don't believe I've ever had a word that has fooled everyone.
     
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    Great job, Arnie and Bob. I'd rather have it be a trumpet mute than a refuse dump. I thought about that one. Does that count??? spoze not!
     
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