Kirtle is a word with a long history. Please send me your daffynitions by PM.

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Originally posted by pearce:
Kirtle is a word with a long history. Please send me your daffynitions by PM.

Only 3 daffynitions so far. Everyone on holiday? Or perhaps a rather dull word--sorry.

Just sent you mine

Sorry, Pearce, I thought YOU were on holiday, so had not looked for your word. Mine's in your PMs (NOT PMS, as we know you do not so suffer!)

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Originally posted by pearce:

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Originally posted by pearce:
Kirtle is a word with a long history. Please send me your daffynitions by PM.

Only 3 daffynitions so far. Everyone on holiday? Or perhaps a rather dull word--sorry.

Nope, just at work, and then busy with things I should be doing instead. You'll have my fertile kirtle via turtle....soon.

Sorry, I missed this one. Mine is off to you!

Kalleh, you really ought to keep your kirtle on in public! Whatever will Shufitz think!

Oh...Asa, it is a fun word, isn't it? I have to say, I am quite proud of my daffynition!

[QUOTE]Originally posted by pearce:

Hope this listing is not premature.

Bluffing Games
KIRTLE
OK these are the daffynitions received. One is correct.
Which is the real definition?

1. An early type of steam-powered automobile.
2. (n) A kilt worn for daily chores, unlike the great kilt which was reserved for special occasions and for the battlefield.
3. a casserole made with lamb and rice.
4. to wander along aimlessly.
5. A tunic or coat, originally a garment reaching to the knees or lower.
6. Kirtle -- an obstacle placed on a race track to make the race more difficult for participants. Unlike the hurdle, a kirtle is specifically used in turtle races.
7. To besiege a fortification by throwing diseased carcasses over the walls.
8. Kirtle: A type of decorative fastener used on Renaissance garters worn by 17th century Prussian and German nobility.
9. A thin brush that billows out once it is inserted into thin-necked bottles so that the insides of the bottles can be cleaned.
10. a small dagger.

Ah...nice daffynitions. I will try one of the 2 verbs: # 4

It definitely sounds like it ought to be 2 or 5 but in the spirit of pervesity that has given me a near 100% record of failure at this game I'm going to pick 9 just because there ought to be a word for one of those brushes.

Well I am voting for 7 because of the Pythonesque images it arouses, though I believe in that case, the animal was flying from rather than into the fortification.


("Your mother was a hamster...")

Wordmatic

I'm taking a stab at it with my vote for Number Ten.

~~~ jerry

Call me Brubeck; I'll take five.

Something tells me it is a garment of some sort, so, since Jo's taken five, I'll take two, assuming that it's a form of kilt worn while hurling dead animals which were killed by eating toxic lamb and rice casserole over castle walls, falling upon those wandering aimlessly along the tops of the parapets, after which they are eaten by ravenous hamsters. Now, what say we all sit down and watch Monty Python's "Jabberwocky" together and have a few pints?

Good word, Pierce!

Five for me too, please.

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Originally posted by pearce:

Just waiting for Caterwauller and Haberdasher, plus any one else who is kirtled. Sorry there's no kirtling permitted, yet.

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Now, what say we all sit down and watch Monty Python's "Jabberwocky" together and have a few pints?

Great idea! It isa great word. I can't wait to use it, properly, in sentences.

I vote for 5, although I agree with Bob that there really ought to be a name for those cool bottle-cleaning brushes.

[QUOTE]Originally posted by pearce:

Kirtle.
So here are the daffynitions you offered:

1. An early type of steam-powered automobile. Arnie
2. (n) A kilt worn for daily chores, unlike the great kilt which was reserved for special occasions and for the battlefield. Jo
3. a casserole made with lamb and rice. Caterwauller
4. to wander along aimlessly. Bob Hale
5. A tunic or coat, originally a garment reaching to the knees or lower.
6. Kirtle -- an obstacle placed on a race track to make the race more difficult for participants. Unlike the hurdle, a kirtle is specifically used in turtle races. Jerry Thomas
7. To besiege a fortification by throwing diseased carcasses over the walls. Asa Lovejoy
8. Kirtle: A type of decorative fastener used on Renaissance garters worn by 17th century Prussian and German nobility. Wordmatic
9. A thin brush that billows out once it is inserted into thin-necked bottles so that the insides of the bottles can be cleaned. Kalleh
10. ...a small dagger. Haberdasher

The right answer as many knew is 5.

 From OED, 1. Kirtle is a man's tunic or coat, originally a garment reaching to the knees or lower, sometimes forming the only body-garment, but more usually worn with a shirt beneath and a cloak or mantle above.
 Writers of the 16th and 17th c. used it chiefly in describing robes of state. It survived to some extent in dialects, applied to a short jacket or blouse.
 2. A woman's gown.    b. A skirt or outer petticoat.   Appeared in common use down to about 1650, and now, as an archaism, much more frequent than sense 1.
   3. figuratively: A coat or covering of any kind; a coating of paint.


So Wordcrafters, when climate changes strike again, and the violent weather changes we have created enforce protection with clothing rather than switching up the heating or air conditioning, the future, if there is one, lies in the kirtle.

Well, kirtle me kidneys!

WM

This one was easy for me since I do medieval reenactment and costuming. The kirtle is basic to all middle and peasant class costume until the late Tudor age and beyond. Even then it shows up on working girls, especially in kitchens. It later morphed into the apron.

Very well done, Pearce!

Jo, it was pretty sneaky to provide a daffynition that was almost corect, but not quite! I knew it was one or the other, but, as usual, guessed wrong.

Wordmatic, you haven't had a go at this; do you have a strange, odd, unusual, or weird word for us?

I was thinking that it might be my turn, but you'll have to give me a few hours before I have time to find just the right bluffer. Unfortunately, I am not walking around with a collection of words in my head arcane enough to stump this group! Kirtle will be a tough act to follow, as well.

More anon,
Wordmatic

And i shall still, even when I have a pretty good idea (btw is kirtle related to girdle?), contimue my own idiosynratic style of choosing whichever definition sounds silliest.

...and I shall keep my vote to myself. You'll never know -- heh-heh-hehhh.... (evil mad-scientist Sivana-e)

Fabulous word - even fabulous-er definitions!