Nelipot- knock yourself out!

mine has gone via PM

mine too (replace the m by an l, one o by a p, rearrange and get "nelipot"!)

There goes Hab...having fun again!

Thanks, Beans! We always like new players here!

Jo, I love your new avatar!

Thanks, Kalleh. It is my newest quilt. Still a work in progress.

thanks, so far I have five responses; Arnie, haberdasher, Kalleh, Caterwauller and jo. I’ll put the choices up on Wednesday.

beans

i'm smiling as i post this; it's a hell-of-a list! thanks everyone.

Nelipot

A very large flamboyant dress. From Dame Francesca Nelipot, opera singer, (1827-74) who was famous for wearing such garments.

The sound made by crickets in Texas.

Archaic; An inorganic pigment, mostly an oxide mineral.

Someone who walks without shoes.

Name given to the observation station at the top of the tallest mast of an old sailing ship; also called the "crow's nest".

Slang; a silly or superficial person.

A specially-constructed form-fitting plastic receptacle for storing Djangos and Djellabas in humid climates.

choose wisely, and may the force be with you.

Okay, I'll buy it... Give me barefoot for three points, Dan... oops wrong game.

Barefoot, yeah; teaks of chan and all that.

Suggestion: for easier bookkeeping it might be wise to modify your post with a numeral for each entry?

Superficially flamboyant archaic barefoot Texas crickets wearing djellabas and manning the crow's nest and hollering "Land Ho!" in slangy patois.

I respect Kalleh and don't think she'd go anywhere without shu, so I'll choose barefoot.

Don't like any of 'em. Not even the Crow's Nest, which is reached by climbing the TOPLINE, which in an anagram of NELIPOT, and gets extra credibility points for that.

I guess I'll take # 7, the thingy you store Banjos and Jellybeans in in muggy climates. So they don't get moldy. And they were around long before there was plastic, too.

"Nelipot" sounds like first cousin to a fusspot. I say it's "Slang; a silly or superficial person."

Tinman

I'm going with the flamboyant dress for the sole purpose of satisfying my whimsical nature. Oh yea, and because I wanna buy one and sing opera, too.

I'll plump for the Crows nest

One of my favourite ladies is Kate in The Taming of the Shrew.

In one of her rants she says, complaining about her younger sister being her father's favourite,
She is your treasure, she must have a husband
I must dance barefoot on her wedding day

I therefore go for 'Someone who walks without shoes.'

Someone who walks without shoes.

Honest, I went through the definitions before looking at Arnie's choice.

Well, I was going to select the one about the observation deck/crow's nest until Hab ruined it for me. So, I guess I'll choose the "silly or superficial person."

Don't let _me_ be what sways you! In case you haven't noticed, my "bottom line" for correct answers is abysmal (though my fun/whimsy rating is quite high!).

signed, a silly person

(PS It's equally "clear" that "nelipot" derives from "neli-/null" and "-pot/ped-" so that it must indeed mean without feet or (by extension) shoes. Which is what the perpetrator of that daffynition hoped you would think... )

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PPS On re-reading the choices... the correct answer must be the last one: wisdom, as associated with the Force. That's what we were instructed to choose, yes? And it explains why there are no numbers on any of the daffynitions...

There goes Hab again...having fun!

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my "bottom line" for correct answers is abysmal

No, if my memory serves, you've been on a roll recently, Hab.

OH, RATS, I didn't even realise there was a new word posted!

Grumble, gripe, whinge, mutter, grumble...

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Originally posted by Asa Lovejoy:
OH, RATS, I didn't even realise there was a new word posted!

Grumble, gripe, whinge, mutter, grumble...

But you can still vote, Asa! I did!

OK, Sunflower, I'll toss in my guess. Haberdasher's analysis makes perfect sense (which is why I'm locked away at present!) but I'll say it's a super sillificial person.

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Haberdasher's analysis makes perfect sense

Well of course, but which one? :-) Chances are we'll find out that the real correct definition was "none of the above"!

well, I’d like to say that I planned to not use numbers such that people would be forced to post their chosen definition if full, rather than leaving me to scroll back and forth between the options and the guess, but I can’t. I just fluked it. so, without further ado (apologies for the time)...

Nelipot

A very large flamboyant dress. From Dame Francesca Nelipot, opera singer, (1827-74) who was famous for wearing such garments.

Caterwauller,


The sound made by crickets in Texas.

No takers.


Archaic; An inorganic pigment, mostly an oxide mineral.

Not-a-one.


Someone who walks without shoes.

Jo, Jerry, Arnie, Kalleh


Name given to the observation station at the top of the tallest mast of an old sailing ship; also called the "crow's nest".

BobHale


Slang; a silly or superficial person.

Tinman, Sunflower, Asa Lovejoy


A specially-constructed form-fitting plastic receptacle for storing Djangos and Djellabas in humid climates.

haberdasher (who may require a more fiendish challenge than nelipot)



Nelipot: Someone who walks without shoes

http://users.tinyonline.co.uk/gswithenbank/unuwords.htm

ALTERNATES:

Arnie wrote:
A very large flamboyant dress. From Dame Francesca Nelipot, opera singer, (1827-74) who was famous for wearing such garments.

Caterwauller wrote:
The sound made by crickets in Texas.

Kalleh wrote:
Archaic; An inorganic pigment, mostly an oxide mineral.

haberdasher wrote:
Name given to the observation station at the top of the tallest mast of an old sailing ship; also called the "crow's nest".

jo wrote:

Slang; a silly or superficial person.

Jerry thomas wrote:
A specially-constructed form-fitting plastic receptacle for storing Djangos and Djellabas in humid climates.

Sooner or later I'll get one of these right.

Can I do the next one please?

Before we leave NELIPOT - where did the word come from? I made up my "analysis" but I don't find anything more authoratitive on Onelook.com, just entries on two people's undocumented lists. Have we a derivation anywhere, preferably with credentials?

Great question, Hab. In fact, I have e-mailed someone who might have an idea.

I knew the word because once in the 6-letters game I needed an "n" word and found "nelipot" in the Grandiloquent Dictionary (online). It seemed like a great word, and I haven't forgotten it. The strange part is, I tried to search for that post, and it didn't come up. Maybe I misspelled it.

Bob...we'd love you to be next!

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I knew the word because once in the 6-letters game I needed an "n" word and found "nelipot" in the Grandiloquent Dictionary (online). It seemed like a great word, and I haven't forgotten it. The strange part is, I tried to search for that post, and it didn't come up. Maybe I misspelled it.

Maybe it was annulled because it has seven letters -- not six.

By the way, are the rules for the six-letter game posted somewhere? I play the game a lot, but the only rule I know of is that the words have six letters. Surely there are other rules, which I no doubt violate ...

~~~ jerry

i'd be pleased to hand on the baton to mr hale...

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By the way, are the rules for the six-letter game posted somewhere? I play the game a lot, but the only rule I know of is that the words have six letters. Surely there are other rules, which I no doubt violate ...

i thought the rule was to create as much connectedness between the word and one's phrase, jerry. the more rules you apply, the greater your success. so no rules, really. i'm guessing, of course.

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Maybe it was annulled because it has seven letters -- not six.

No, Jerry. "Nelipot" was one of the words used in my answer to the 6-letters that had been posted. You are correct, Beans, there are no rules to the 6-letters game. You simply make a sentence out of the 6 letters that are posted.

I am going to take Hab's idea and post "nelipot" in Q&A. One of my friends who knows a lot about words thinks it is a "Byrnism," that is a word that was coined only by Mrs. Bryne. We'll see what the rest of you on Wordcraft think.