a coarse but strong clothing, made to protect against soiling those doing dirty work (cleaning slop buckets, removing the bodies of victims of the plague, etc - cf. "dungarees")
A damper. a cone-shaped mute for a trumpet
Causing evacuation or emission. From F. sortir, leave, depart
left handed
unstable, moody
a variety of pansy found only in Iceland
a medieval refuse dump.
Guess away!
Build a man a fire and he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he's warm for the rest of his life.
It's a medieval plainsong sung by unstable, moody, coarse clothing-wearing left-handed Icelandic pansies playing muted trumpets while evacuating in ye olde refuse dump.
I'll Join Wordmatic on singing the praises of #1 But then if it were a sniglet I'd say it's a small, stinky, bruised fish.
Bob's effort - fooled Wordmatic, Asa Lovejoy, and Kalleh
a coarse but strong clothing, made to protect against soiling those doing dirty work (cleaning slop buckets, removing the bodies of victims of the plague, etc - cf. "dungarees")
this was quite an early entry, in the "so that's what that's called" category.
were I to enter it today, I would point out that it stems from F. sourdine and It. sordino < L. surdus, deaf (cf. surdaster(!)); and it's also a mute for stringed instruments.
Good job, Bob! I thought I had it for sure, especially after so many others had selected it. Congrats to you, too, arnie! Nice word!
I've got next. A logophile who isn't able to take part right now has given me a word that I am hoping will have the same results. I don't believe I've ever had a word that has fooled everyone.
