Vindaloo is the new word. Send a PM with a daffynition, s'il vous plait!

Cool. Mine is on the way.

Y'all will have until the 17th to submit daffynitions, since I'm going to have to be out of touch (uhhh, even more than usual) until then. Soooo, think hard and post a good one!

That's good, though, because it gives a slowbee a chance to think longer....

toodaloo, vandaloo--I mean vindaloo--and you have mine now.

WM

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It seems that all who want to have voted, so here are the results:


1. A type of wicker garden bench shaded by an arbour.

Wordmatic's submission. Kalleh sat in it.

2. ritual for fighting off a curse of childlessness; practiced mainly in the mountains of western Haiti

Haberdasher haberdashed this one off and snared Wordmatic.

3. An attic window. From the Swedish vindaloo.

Arnie didn't manage to defenestrate anyone.

4. A very spicy Portugese dish made popular in the former colony of Goa.

However, arnie DID choose the real definition!

5. "Se vende lu" was the cry of aggressive bathroom-fixtures salesmen in ancient Mayan cities, as revealed by recent translations of inscriptions on ancient stones in the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. Due to linguistic erosion the phrase is now pronounced "vindaloo."

Jerry's imaginative submission.

6. A dialect spoken in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

Kalleh's funny speech ensnared Jerry.

7. a fetish or other object of voodoo worship, especially for use in revenge spells.

Trossl didn't catch anyone with this one, although after eating a proper vindaloo, one might want to take revenge on whoever convinced you to eat it with nothing to drink!

8. A hot Indian curry dish.

While Bob and Hab were right about its being identified as an Indian dish, it is actually Portugese in origin. See here: http://www.languagehat.com/archives/002446.php
and here: http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-vindaloo.htm

9. A Finnish nomad.

I stuck this in just to make TrossL nohappy!

Now, wasn't that a sneaky round!?!? Who's next?

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Five is tempting, that's for sure.

However, I will choose #1.

8 sounds yummy! I mean ATE!

Just to be different I'll choose Number SIX

I'll take #2.

Wordmatic

I'll take #9, #9, #9...

Can I just say I LOVE "Across the Universe"?
Oh, I just did...

I prefer Portuguese to Indian cooking, so number 4 for me, please.

8 sounds hot enough for me

The results have been spliced into the daffynitions above. Sorry about my computer incompetence!

Sorry I missed this one, Asa! Have been swamped IRL lately. I have helped prepare an "authentic" chicken vindaloo (with an Indian friend of Muslim origin) & never would have guessed as to the original etymology-- enjoyed the cuisinary link, thanks.

Bethree5, I think I'll have a go at cooking one myself! My missus does not like hot/spicy dishes, so I'll have to find others to share it. Y'all are invited!

I'm afraid I disagree.

The game is to guess the meaning the word has, not the etymology of it (which I was aware of, having encountered this before). Regardless of the etymology the dish is indubitably Indian - and rather tasty at that.

Bob, I was assuming that most all knew it as an Indian food, so the trick was to know what ELSE it is! However, from the number of non-food daffynitions and guesses, I see I was wrong!

As I wrote in my PM, the nearest association I had with it was the Art Vandelay episode of Seinfeld; I had never heard of a vindaloo before, but now I'll have to try it.

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Originally posted by Asa Lovejoy:
Bob, I was assuming that most all knew it as an Indian food, so the trick was to know what ELSE it is! However, from the number of non-food daffynitions and guesses, I see I was wrong!

I too thought everyone would know it but my point remains that the word doesn't "mean" 4. A very spicy Portugese dish made popular in the former colony of Goa.
If it did I would be able to buy one in a Portuguese restaurant rather than an Indian one.
It is certainly the etymology of it but NOT, I'd contend, the meaning.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by wordmatic:
...the nearest association I had with it was the Art Vandelay episode of Seinfeld... QUOTE] har har, wm! Hail fellow Seinfeld fan.

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Originally posted by Asa Lovejoy:
Bethree5, I think I'll have a go at cooking one myself! My missus does not like hot/spicy dishes, so I'll have to find others to share it. Y'all are invited!

Accepted w/pleasure-- we'll have to have a virtual cookfest. Sadly my dh as well cannot tolerate the combination of Indian spices, so my much-thumbed Madhur Jaffey cookbook has been on the shelf since the late '80's...

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Originally posted by Asa Lovejoy:
9. A Finnish nomad.

I stuck this in just to make TrossL nohappy!

??? wakarimaska

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Originally posted by TrossL:


??? wakarimaska

Huh? Translation, please!

I thought for sure number 5 was Hab's! On the other hand, my second guess would have been #2.

Great word, Asa!

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Originally posted by Asa Lovejoy:

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Originally posted by TrossL:


??? wakarimaska

Huh? Translation, please!

exactly... i don't understand

TrossL, you voted for #9, "A Finnish nomad

I said that voting for a decoy made you nohappy Silly pun, I suppose!

As for #9, did you mean to refer to "Love Potion #9" from the old song?

Ahh haa... punny...

and no, #9 was a Beatles reference. One of their songs had a trailing off #9, #9, #9... in it.
I just saw "Across the Universe" and I am a bit Beatles crazy right now.