Usual terms and conditions apply.

Mine is on the way, Bob.

and mine

I have six at the moment plus my own and the real one. Anyone else who wants to play has until Saturday.

OK. Here are the definitions for Tarantulate.


1. To walk in a circular fashion, weaving patterns; a form of meditational walking.

2. Using a bulldozer, with a large metal plate on the front, to peel layers of soil and to push it forward as the tractor advances.

3. To skirt around an issue with complicated word play.

4. A terminological inexactitude.

5. Vitriolic speech.

6. To play a brass fanfare.

7. The process by which venom is withdrawn from tarantulas and injected into consenting adult triangles, a major part of the arguably successful campaign for the conversion of triangulation to an environmentally acceptable practice.

8. To excite or govern the emotions by music.

9. The ability to shed hair at will.

10. To grow by shedding the skin.

After careful review of the massive clutter of both relevant and irrelevant data remotely connected to this issue my mind is made up and as you can plainly see I am votiing for number three.

We walk 'round in circles
Removing the dirt.
With imprecise verbiage
We simper and flirt.
Afraid of commitment
We dissemble with flare
And extricate venom
To a trumpet fanfare.
Like cats in the summer
We shed hair and skin.
But I swear that in spite of this
Those who choose EIGHT should win.

I'll have one of those, and one of those, and one of those, and...what can I say? No matter which I pick, it's still ONE !

Although it should be "tarantulation," I'll guess #9.

Number 9, please.

I guess #1.

I'll choose 6. Though 8 and 3 look good, also.

Tinman

I'll choose 3, because that's been particularly relevant to my life recently, and I'd love it to be true so I can use the word should it happen again.

I'll go for 8

First of all, drawn by Tarantella there were several excellent but near identical definitions. I PMd the people involved and all chose to submit new ones. I should have predicted it I suppose.

So here then are the answers.



1. To walk in a circular fashion, weaving patterns; a form of meditational walking.
Provided by jo, fooled haberdasher, caterwauller

2. Using a bulldozer, with a large metal plate on the front, to peel layers of soil and to push it forward as the tractor advances.
Provided by Kalleh, fooled no-one

3. To skirt around an issue with complicated word play.
Provided by caterwauller, fooled jerry, cat

4. A terminological inexactitude.
Provided by arnie, fooled no-one

5. Vitriolic speech.
Provided by Asa, fooled no-one

6. To play a brass fanfare.
Provided by haberdasher, fooled tinman

7. The process by which venom is withdrawn from tarantulas and injected into consenting adult triangles, a major part of the arguably successful campaign for the conversion of triangulation to an environmentally acceptable practice.
This rather bizarre definition was provided by jerry who has, I think, been out in the sun for too long. It fooled no-one.

8. To excite or govern the emotions by music.
The real definition, guessed as usual by jo, arnie

9. The ability to shed hair at will.
Provided by Cat, fooled Asa, Kalleh

10. To grow by shedding the skin.
Provided by Bob, fooled no-one.

Thanks, Bob!

All I can say is...it's a good thing we're not keeping score like we used to! I at least used to fool people with my daffynitions. Now I can't even do that!

Does anyone want to do the next word?

Oh, fooey! I was aware that some tarantulas can shed their abdominal hair, which is barbed, and irritating to potential predators. I guess I knew too much for my own good! :-( Great choice, though, Bob!

That's why I submitted it, Asa .

Now, CW, is there a decent word for the daffynition you submitted?

I thought that was "molting" (moulting, if you prefer). Modern termite-control systems purport to work by preventing the exoskeleton from shedding, thereby killing the ever-growing inhabitants...

Edit: Sorry, that was for definition 10, not cat's, which was no.9, let alone CW's, which was 3. Sigh. Someday I'll learn how to count, and then how to read...

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Now, CW, is there a decent word for the daffynition you submitted?

How about obfuscate?

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Originally posted by Cat:
That's why I submitted it, Asa .

Thanks a lot! Good daffynition, though!

Does anyone have a good word?

A good work for or about whom?

Asa the curmudgeon

Kalleh the confused has no idea what Asa the curmudgeon means.

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How about obfuscate?

Could that be used when someone deliberately gets you bogged down in semantics in order to move further and further away from the original issue, because they don't want to acknowledge that you actually have a point and would rather win the ensuing battle of wits than talk about the matter at hand?

Cat,

I'd say so, particularly you used deliberately obfuscate.

Thanks arnie .