Answers in a PM please.

Mine is in your PM box.

Mine's in too.

Wordmatic

Counting my own bluff and the real definition I already have ten.

Anybody else?

Sorry for the delay.
Here are the suggestions.

1. A grammarian.

2. One who teaches femininity.

3. A heretic follower of the so-called St Priscian, one-time bishop of Sanitago Campostella.

4. The kind of painter Picasso was prior to entering his Blue Period. (pre = before; cyan = blue).

5. an art conservator specializing in the cleaning and restoration of oil paintings

6. fisherman

7. Some-one living within the Arctic Circle

8. seer; one who practices the art of fortune-telling

9. One who tests and operates equipment and devices to verify accuracy.

10. Adherent of a nineteenth-century atheistic cult

11. One who is over-fussy or dainty in his manner.

Well, this has never happened to me before, but I simply cannot remember which of these was my definition! I know that Bob had asked me to change it because it was similar to another, but I am clueless as to which one I submitted.

I will choose #5, and then check my PM to see which was mine.

I just checked and now I remember. I like my original one better, but I see Bob's point.

This message has been edited. Last edited by: Kalleh,

Due to my extreme ignorance I'm choosing number EIGHT.

Since this is a word site I'll go for number ONE.

I'll try... Number FIVE.

I'll go with one.

Since it is almost certainly #1, I'll guess #3, which I would guess to be one of Bob's own doing - but maybe not. Besides, I'm drawn to heretics!

Nice to see you here, z.

OK, I'll take a chance on 9.

Wordmatic

Welllllll, give us the results!

Patience m'boy.

I'll do them later tonight or first thing tomorrrow.

Here are the answers.

1. A grammarian.
The real definition-Sir James Murray's New English Dictionary, 1928.
Guessed by arnie and zmježd. How do they know this stuff?

2. One who teaches femininity.
Asa explored his feminine side with this definition but the make-up and dress failed to convince anyone.

3. A heretic follower of the so-called St Priscian, one-time bishop of Sanitago Campostella.
zmježd's heretic follower gained one heretic follower of its own, Asa

4. The kind of painter Picasso was prior to entering his Blue Period. (pre = before; cyan = blue).
I hope jerry doesn't go through too blue a period having failed to fool anyone

5. an art conservator specializing in the cleaning and restoration of oil paintings
wordmatic worked her art on Kalleh and bethree5

6. fisherman
hab hooked nothing with his fishing trip

7. Some-one living within the Arctic Circle
arnie's definition was frozen out with no guesses

8. seer; one who practices the art of fortune-telling
jerry failed to predict that this was bethree5's original submission (see note below.)

9. One who tests and operates equipment and devices to verify accuracy.
Kalleh managed to test the accuracy of wordmatic's guesses.

10. Adherent of a nineteenth-century atheistic cult
bethree5 attracted no one to join her cult

11. One who is over-fussy or dainty in his manner.
No one was fussy or dainty enough to go for my own offering

Note
I had no fewer than four variations on fortune teller and asked all of them to submit new suggestions. bethree5's was the first so she got to submit two.

Here's a nice site that describes Priscianus Caesariensis, apparently where the word developed. Nice word, Bob!

I knew his name from a history of Western linguistics book I once read. Priscianus Caesarensis, Dionysius Thrax, and Æ. Donatus are the big names in Classical Greek and Latin grammars. (I was chagrined to have misspelled Santiago and Campostela.)

Chagrined? Wellll, Bill Watterson, creator of Calvin and Hobbes, grew up Chagined! (Chagrin Falls, MI, to be exact!)

I was sure #1 was the right answer, but yours was SUCH fun I had to support your pseudo-heretic!

Now z, we hope you will continue to play with us. How about doing the next word?

I had Priscian's name at the back of my mind as a Latin grammarian, probably from the time when I learnt Latin at school. Our textbooks were written a few years later, though.

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Originally posted by Asa Lovejoy:
Chagrined? Wellll, Bill Watterson, creator of Calvin and Hobbes, grew up Chagined! (Chagrin Falls, MI, to be exact!)

I was sure #1 was the right answer, but yours was SUCH fun I had to support your pseudo-heretic!

I REALLY WANTED there to be a "so-called St Priscian" & the only thing that kept me from voting him into existence were those rather suspicious misspellings!

Just another reason why some of us who didn't study Latin should have--though I doubt "the ability to win future Bluffing Games" would have been on Miss Adtkins' list at the time, so many years ago.

Wordmatic

just an offhand comment from one who has hosted many such games (elsewhere): I try and avoid words (obviously) derived from Latin (or, alternatively, use words that look as if they were), for just these reasons -- it's not supposed to be a game about what you *know, is it?

I've been playing this game since it first started, as has arnie. Because of that, I have learned not to use words derived from Latin, but it's hard to come up with something to fool arnie!

Maybe I'm missing the point, but I thought the chosen word was very clever because it looked tantalizingly like a variation on pre + scientia, hence the 'seer/ fortuneteller' guesses. Unfortunately several of us thought of that. Darn!

I was one of the four. Pity we all WEREN'T prescient!

As was I. We are smart, aren't we, fellow Wordcrafters.

Zmj, how about taking the next word?

Okay. Apparently zmj is not next up. Does anyone have a word in your back pocket that you'd like to stump all of us with? Pretty please?

I've come across a word: widdiful - see https://wordcraft.infopop.cc/eve/forums?a=tpc&s=44160709...731080325#1731080325