While trying (unsuccessfully) to use Rhymezone to find a rhyme for "blotto: I stumbled upon the word "potto".

It was a new one on me so over to you guys.

Definitions for "potto" via pm please.

This is gonna be a helluva easy game. SO far I have only one definition.

Motto, grotto, and lotto all rhyme with blotto, at least in American English.

Mine is pretty darned good!

Well that ups the contributions to two.

I have a quartet of pottos now, plus the real definition and I can make a couple up but I'd really like some more before I put the list up.

Come on people, give me pottos!

I actually posted one too. I know, it's been months since my last, but I really enjoy this game.

WM

Mine is in, and I'll be posting the results for my severely undervoted word shortly.

Although I think I know what potto means, I've now supplied two daffynitions.

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Originally posted by Proofreader:
Mine is in, and I'll be posting the results for my severely undervoted word shortly.

What? Didn't I vote twice? I deliberately voted for the wrong one, since I DO know what a Brannock Device is. You'd best plug your nose while using one!

My wife got two at a bridal party and used them for years in the snow.

A recent flurry of activity means that I now have enough pottos to open a potto shop. I shall hold off on posting until after the Brannock device results are in so there is still time for anyone who wants to join in to send me a definition.

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Originally posted by Proofreader:
My wife got two at a bridal party and used them for years in the snow.

A Porta-Potto?

OK - It's potto time!

Is a potto...

1. A bird, related to the nightjar, found in Central and South America.

2. A silicon, high quality breast enhancer and shaper.

3. A Victorian bar-room game in which wooden balls of slightly varying sizes are rolled up a sloping wooden platform with the aim of getting as many as possible to fall through the correspondingly sized holes.

4. A lichen found in areas of permafrost.

5. A gambling game. Rest-rooms are fitted out with a 'slottery' at newer gaming houses. The bettor deposits a dollar chip to enter the lavatory, receiving a randomly-numbered entry chit. A similar chit is dispensed to each customer by cubicle-locks as the bolt is shot. Matching chits may be cashed in for the amount shown.

6. A strong liquor distilled exclusively by Corsican peasants.

7. Nineteen thirties British schoolboy slang for a small shop selling chocolate, cakes and drinks. A tuck shop.

8. A Mayan symbol denoting a concept similar to Yin and Yang.

9. Arboreal fruit-eating mammal of tropical America with a long prehensile tail

10. An ancient Mezo-Indian cooking vessel with elongated "ears" suitable for hanging over a fire.

11. Falling-down drunk.


EVERYONE WHO CONTRIBUTED IS EXPECTED TO CHOOSE!

While I did make a contribution, I am aware of the actual definition, so I won't vote in this round.

Don't forget to check the results for the last game, which I've posted.

Number 4 for me.

Nine please.

I'll take 7.

WM

Number 3 for me

I too know who the real Potto is, so I'll proclaim that it's an arboreal schoolboy eating lichen that often gets falling-down drunk on all the fermented fruit it consumes. However, I liked daffynition #1 since I heretfore thought a nightjar was what one peed in when there was no indoor facility.

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I found a great word, so while I am sure I'll lose (I don't know the definition), can I go next?

Geoff and proof, you can guess the real definition! The point is to get it right. If you know the word, go for it!

They can't do that NOW because they already told us they know it. Unless they want to double bluff us and deliberately pick the wrong one.

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Originally posted by Kalleh:
Geoff and proof, you can guess the real definition! The point is to get it right. If you know the word, go for it!

Agreed. I don't know why some people have started to duck out of answering saying that they know the real meaning. We didn't play that way in the past. If you knew the real definition, you'd just feel lucky.

OK, next time I'll keep my mouth shut and just vote for the right one when I know it! Odd that I knew both potto and Brannock device - and I'm not even arnie!

Potto is how my uncle would come home every night. He was actually the neighborhood's best magician. He could walk down the street and turn into a barroom.

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Originally posted by BobHale:
OK - It's potto time!

I just noticed that sly reference to Michael Bentine's Potty Time. Nice one, Bob!

I suppose it's time for the answers then.

The runners and riders were
1
A bird, related to the nightjar, found in Central and South America.
arnie's bird flew into tinman's arms

2
A silicon, high quality breast enhancer and shaper.
Kalleh

3
A Victorian bar-room game in which wooden balls of slightly varying sizes are rolled up a sloping wooden platform with the aim of getting as many as possible to fall through the correspondingly sized holes.
I persuaded bethree5 to come and play bar games with me

4
A lichen found in areas of permafrost.
Geoff's lichen grew on Kalleh

5
Rest-rooms are fitted out with a 'slottery' at newer gaming houses. The bettor deposits a dollar chip to enter the lavatory, receiving a randomly-numbered entry chit. A similar chit is dispensed to each customer by cubicle-locks as the bolt is shot. Matching chits may be cashed in for the amount shown.
bethree5 fooled no one but I want to know if this is a real game. If not you should contact the casinos immediately and offer to let them license it from you

6
A strong liquor distilled exclusively by Corsican peasants.
wordmatic

7
Nineteen thirties British schoolboy slang for a small shop selling chocolate, cakes and drinks. A tuck shop.
I managed to get wordmatic into my tuck shop

8
A Mayan symbol denoting a concept similar to Yin and Yang.
Proofreader

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Arboreal fruit-eating mammal of tropical America with a long prehensile tail
Correct and known, as ever, by arnie

10
An ancient Mezo-Indian cooking vessel with elongated "ears" suitable for hanging over a fire.

11
Proofreader
Falling-down drunk.
Geoff

As I informed Bob via PM, I knew the answer, based on my past zoo experience and the fact that I've eaten a dozen of them. Taste like chicken.

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Originally posted by Proofreader:
and the fact that I've eaten a dozen of them.

In one sitting? You must be potto-bellied by now.

I knew about the potto from somewhere. No idea where, but I wasn't confident I was right.

Oddly, I was more confident about my bluff, which is in fact a similar-sounding word, potoo. I have no idea where I heard about that, either.

It's a good word for the game, because the definition sounds like someone's trying too hard-- especially that 'long prehensile tail'. Fooled me.

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Arboreal fruit-eating mammal of tropical America with a long prehensile tail
Correct and known, as ever, by arnie

Pottos are from tropical Africa, not America.

Wikipedia

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Habitat

Pottos inhabit the canopy of rain forests in tropical Africa, from Guinea to Kenya and Uganda into the north of the Democratic Republic of Congo. They are nocturnal and arboreal, sleeping during the day in the leaves, and almost never descending from the trees.

Wisconsin National Primate Research Center (WNPRC) Primate Factsheet

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Potto
Perodicticus potto

COUNTRIES IN RANGE

Angola, Benin, Burundi, Côte d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Togo, Uganda

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Arboreal fruit-eating mammal of tropical America with a long prehensile tail

Obviously undocumented and should be deported immediately!

I knew it from a book on exotic animals my mother had when I was quite young. I remembered such critters as pottos, dik-diks, kiangs, and aye-ayes - but then doesn't everyone?

The definition was cut and pasted from OneLook. Blame them for any errors in the detail.

Whose next?

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Originally posted by Kalleh:
Whose next?

Oh, Kalleh! F- for grammar.
Unless of course this is an ellipsis for
"Whose [word is] next?" rather than "Who is next?"

In which case A+.

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Never heard of Turkers.

WM

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Never heard of Turkers.

Wrong thread

Unless Turkers is the new Bluffing Game word.

oops. What I get from clicking the wrong link to reply from the daily digest! WM

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Oh, Kalleh! F- for grammar.

Oh, how could I? It wasn't even that late!

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What I get from clicking the wrong link to reply from the daily digest!

Ah! That explains it. I'd seen a couple of posts lately that had gone to the wrong thread and I'd wondered how it had happened.