Enfeoff is your new word. Well, actually it's quite an old word, so put on your Great Aunt Tillie's corset, lace it up tight, and see what you can imagine while suffering from hypoxia!

Thanks, Asa, for doing the word this time...and mine is in your PM box, ready for Arnie to select it!

This is a hard one, but I'll send something to you.

my daffynition is going out via PM

I've got six daffynitions so far. Come on, folks, give me some more!

BTW, why didn't the word go bold in the subject line? What did I do wrong THIS time!?!?

You can't use formatting at all in thread subject titles, I'm afraid.

Better late than never. Mine's on the way.

I've got daffynitions from Jerry Thomas, Kalleh, arnie, Jo, Bob Hale, Caterwauller, and Haberdasher. Last call! Anyone else? PM me today; I'll post them tomorrow (Sunday)

Here are the daffynitions, and, of course, the real one!

1. To offer land for sale at a reduced or discounted price.

2. Archaic, to invest with a freehold estate in land; to give as a fief.

3. Archaic term for the counterpoint harmony in a liturgical chant.

4. Verb: to make a slave of someone.

5. Archaic: a payment, usually in land or cloth, made in place of military service. This tax was usually paid by families of young men who went into the clergy, thus precluding their ability to join the armies. The tax was also required of families who had only girl children.

6. To make legal; to remove the stain of illegality from an action.

7. To invigorate, from German "pfeffer," pepper.

8. A standard industrial 6 pin industrial tube with integral mounting flanges.

9. To treat beef tenderloin roast with the blend of spices developed and used by Jakob T. Feoff, Executive Chef, in 1889. Medium rare

OK, boys and girls, post what you find plausible!

2 sounds the most plausible to me, along with 4, 5 and 7.

So I'll go for 1.

An overwhelming feeling of hypoxia inspires me to vote for Number THREE.

I'd go for 1, 2, or 4. I think I'll choose number 4.

Tea for two, and two for tea;
I guess that means it's TWO for me!

I think I'll be a two-teetler too...

Two and two makes four for me!

I'll vote for #7 because I need some invigoration.

..and don't forget that "Geoff" is pronounced "Jeff." Just ask any Toys-R-Us afficionado.

Six, please.

Well do I know that, since that's my real name.

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Originally posted by Asa Lovejoy:
Well do I know that, since that's my real name.

I thought it was pronounced Gee-off!

Tinman

EWWWWWWWWWWWWWW, Tinman, I put up with that from people who don't know better!

Here are the results:

1. To offer land for sale at a reduced or discounted price.

Haberdasher sold some mosquito-infested swamp land to Bob Hale with this one!

2. Archaic, to invest with a freehold estate in land; to give as a fief.

Jo and Haberdasher knew the right answer! Good going, you two!

3. Archaic term for the counterpoint harmony in a liturgical chant.

Caterwauler sang this siren's song and snared Jerry Thomas!

4. Verb: to make a slave of someone.

Bob Hale enslaved arnie and Dianthus! Very good, Bob!

5. Archaic: a payment, usually in land or cloth, made in place of military service. This tax was usually paid by families of young men who went into the clergy, thus precluding their ability to join the armies. The tax was also required of families who had only girl children.

Jo didn't fool anyone, but it sounded good to me!

6. To make legal; to remove the stain of illegality from an action.

Arnie concocted this just to fool Kalleh.

7. To invigorate, from German "pfeffer," pepper.

This is one I threw in at the last minute, and Caterwauller, being hungry for spicy food at the time, bit on it.

8. A standard industrial 6 pin industrial tube with integral mounting flanges.

Kalleh's whimsy didn't spark any guesses.

9. To treat beef tenderloin roast with the blend of spices developed and used by Jakob T. Feoff, Executive Chef, in 1889. Medium rare

Jerry Thomas gave us this one to chew on, but nobody swallowed it.

This is indeed a momentous occasion! Someone FOOLED ARNIE!!! (Sorry it wasn't you, Kalleh, but at least we now know it can be done!)

So ends another thrilling episode of The Bluffing Game! Tune in next week when you'll here someone say, "The next word is....." (Who's gonna do the next one?)

Woooo-hoooooo! I'm retiring now. I fooled arnie.

At least I fooled Kalleh!

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At least I fooled Kalleh!

Great! Once again! And here I thought I got it right, for once. Shu told me he knew what the word meant, so I figured it must be something about "law!" (That's what I get for trying to cheat! )

Who'd like the next word?

Ahem...does anyone have a word you'd like us to define? Should we take a break from this game for awhile?

If nobody picks it up by tomorrow, I'll post one again. "Tain't no law again' it!

I have one.