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<Asa Lovejoy>
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Nimgimmer is the word in play. Send me PMs (NOT PMS!) with your daffynitions!
 
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mine daffynition is on the way via PM
 
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me too
 
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nimgimmer ... device for measuring the quality of
steel with carbon content an essential criterion

(Not for publication ... my parents are in Iron & Steel.
She irons; he steels.)
 
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JERRY -- SEE MY PM !
 
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<Asa Lovejoy>
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So far I have Hab, arnie, Kalleh, Jerry, and Jo. Keep them daffynitions coming in!
 
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Ummm, Jerry, I think you'd best send me another daffynition, since you published yours in the open forum! Wink Roll Eyes Confused Big Grin
 
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I quit.

quote:
R. Butler to S. O'Hara: Frankly, My Dear, I don't give a nimgimmer.
 
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Hehehe - now now, everyone makes mistakes, old man. Don't get your nims in a gimmer.


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<Asa Lovejoy>
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I doubt there are many of us who haven't gotten PMs and public messages confused! It's such fun when politicians do it! Big Grin

Anyhow, Jerry, I'm waiting for another one from you! I just got one from Bob Hale, so when you send in yours, I'll publish them.
 
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I'm sitting out for this episode of the Bluffing Game Gala, Asa. Here is my last word on nimgimmer....

a dim-witted gimmer named Nim
had carved his nickname down from Names
just as you might do, too,
if this happened to you
and they said your real name was James.
 
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James? Didn't he write the bible or sumpthin? Roll Eyes
 
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Did I already send one? I can't dismember.


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Yes, CW, you did, but since Jerry's sitting this one out, you can submit two! Kinda like the alter-ego persona in the comic strip, "Rose is Rose." Do a really nasty one this time! Big Grin
 
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<Asa Lovejoy>
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Daffynitions - and the real one too!

1. A hammer used by the Norse during the Viking Age for executions, specifically of persons found guilty of clan members or slaves.

2 A small sailboat used in Scandanavia for travelling between the fjords.

3. A person who gives compliments that are really divsive in nature.

4. One who can't decide, whether deliberately or inadvertently, (first takes away, then gives); a waffler.

5. A weak light, as from a taper.

6. A physician or surgeon, particularly those who cure the venereal disease.

7. intr. To act like a dolt, to play the fool.

8. A lashing that fastens a bowsprit to the stem of a ship.

9. A hand tool used by southern carpenters during the Civil War era to create the cross bars for split rail fences.

10. Australian slang for one who spreads disease.

OK, lads and lassies, join arnie in picking the real one! Smile
 
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Sounds like a nautical term to me. I'll pick 2.

Tinman
 
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4 and 6 sound good so let's say, oh, 6


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I think 10 sounds like a word Asa would post . . . but there are so many nautical things, I wonder if it really is some sort of boat-ish word . . . but then again 7 is really good, and so much like me . . . hmm . . . oh, wait . . . guess I better guess #4.


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I go for 6.


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I will choose number six.
For those whom syphyllus can fix,
Are a rare breed of docs,
Treating rashes and sex pox
With nary a "Tut" or a "Tisk."

Yes, I know the rhyme and rhythm are strained. It's hard to be creative when you're old. Smile
 
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I just know I should take 6, but in all fairness I had already picked 3. So I'll go with 3.
 
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I like #2.
 
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Here are the results:
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1. A hammer used by the Norse during the Viking Age for executions, specifically of persons found guilty of clan members or slaves.

Jo. I mis-transcribed it and omitted "murder of" after guilty. So, go ahead, Jo, smite me! Frown

2: Bob Hale wanted you all to row your way through the fjords, and Tinman and Sunflower took him up on his offer.

3. Caterwauler gave us this one and snared Kalleh with it.

4. Haberdasher couldn't decide on a daffynition, so he wrote this one. He snared Caterwauller with it.

5. Arnie's ofering.

6. The real one. I expected arnie, who knows every word ever invented, and Haberdasher to know it, but Bob Hale and Jo!?!? Care to explain how you came to know it, you two? Wink

7. Kalleh offered this one.

8. Sunflower's daffynition.

9. Jo's second submission after I screwed up her first one.

10. One I tossed in just to add to the confusion.

2 A small sailboat used in Scandanavia for travelling between the fjords.

3. A person who gives compliments that are really divsive in nature.

4. One who can't decide, whether deliberately or inadvertently, (first takes away, then gives); a waffler.

5. A weak light, as from a taper.

6. A physician or surgeon, particularly those who cure the venereal disease.

7. intr. To act like a dolt, to play the fool.

8. A lashing that fastens a bowsprit to the stem of a ship.

9. A hand tool used by southern carpenters during the Civil War era to create the cross bars for split rail fences.

10. Australian slang for one who spreads disease.

OK, lads and lassies, join arnie in picking the real one! Smile
 
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Hey, Asa! I think I've missed maybe one of these in the time I've been playing the game. I have a rather large vocabulary, just like Arnie. I know the word because I have a very very high tournament scrabble rating under my former name, and I had to study lots of words to get it. Being the wonk that I am, I studied definitions as well as spelling. I used to read the OED for fun. The only reason I don't now is because I don't have access to one.
 
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What happened to Hab's guess?

Can't say that I've heard of this word, even though it apparently is a medical word. However, I don't feel too bad. It wasn't in Onelook, and in OED, there is this definition:

1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew, Nim-gimmer, a Doctor, Surgeon, or Apothecary, or any one that cures a Clap or the Pox.
 
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I'm not sure. the definition just rang a bell with me. I think I might have seen it on a page-a-day calendar of weird words some time.


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I've no idea how or even if I actually knew. It seemed right somehow, but I can't say why.


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<Asa Lovejoy>
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Bob, it was on a calendar that I found it.
 
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