Most of us are familiar with the movie making
job of gaffer - they're in charge of the lighting - and it's British for "foreman" too.
There's yet another meaning, and that's the one we'll pursue.

Send Daffynitions to me by PM

I have a total of one so far. May I have a few more, if you please?

Mine's in!

More, please. Send a ficticious definition via PM, but don't look up the real one. Tom, please give it a go!

You have mine

You should have mine.

I do, indeed have them! I'll post what we've got tomorrow.

I got sick - REALLLY nasty sick, so it'll be a few days before I post the words.

Here are the daffynitions, and the real one:

1. A swindler; a con man.

2. A journeyman bricklayer's assistant. Also known as a Hod Carrier, the gaffer brings the mud to the bricklayers and does all the other laborious tasks to keep the bricklayers busy.

3. The type of club used in seal-culling.

4. A secondary hold in certain types of ship, especially in whalers.

5. A curmudgeon.

6. A really bad joke.

7. A glass blower

8. In the hillbilly sport of barehanded fishing, the person who thrusts his arm into the fish's mouth to catch it.

9. A metal fitting used to join the harnesses of horses in a team.

10. One who regularly drops things; a clumsy person.

One is a real gaffer - which is it?

Those are great!

And which is the real one, Tom?

I'll try four....I mean, seven....no, no, that should be ten, yes, ten, that's me.

quote:

Originally posted by Proofreader:
I'll try four....I mean, seven....no, no, that should be ten, yes, ten, that's me.

Haha....that's bad.

I don't know, so I'll guess 6 in respect for the previous post.

How could I not have known the answer was 3, he said, as he whupped himself upside the head with a stick...

I'll try 7, for want of a better guess.
They all sound plausible to me... even mine.

7 for me please.

Why do you all think it's a ceramic homosexual?

They don't. They're likely referring to composer Philip's fan.

Funny, my mental picture was of a vitreous whistle...

...or a silicon supercharger?

Any more guesses before we go totally into the sand box?

I'll post who wrote what, plus the real answer, tomorrow evening.

I like 3, 2 and 8, in that order. What! You mean I only get one guess? I'll have to go with 3, then. But I may change my mind.

I vote for #5.

Kalleh, are you voting? I'm waiting...

7 for me, and I swear I decided on it before I saw Arnie's selection. I had forgotten my daffys and was going to choose one of them until I checked.

PS And I did all of this from my iPhone, even the checking of my private message to Geoff. Not bad!

OK, Kalleh, you had good reason! Your son's birthdate is the day before mine.

You folks who follow arnie are, or course, right. (Tom, arnie is right much more often than not)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glassblowing

#1 was Haberdasher's
#2 was Tom's
#s 3 & 4 were Bob's
#s 5 & 6 were Kalleh's
#s 8 & 9 were Proofreader's
# 10 was arnie's

Some good daffynitions this time! Good going on your first time at this, Tom!

Does anyone have a word they'd like to put in play?

Thanks Geoff, but its the second or third time for the bluffing game.

Oh... Well, a good game anyhow!

I am not sure what you mean, Tom? The second or third time for what? The word was discussed here in 2003.

I think Tom means it's the second or third time he's entered the bluffing game.

Kalleh, You may have missed a part of the post I was responding to:

quote:

Some good daffynitions this time! Good going on your first time at this, Tom!