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<Asa Lovejoy> |
Nimgimmer is the word in play. Send me PMs (NOT PMS!) with your daffynitions! | ||
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mine daffynition is on the way via PM | |||
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me too | |||
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nimgimmer ... device for measuring the quality of steel with carbon content an essential criterion (Not for publication ... my parents are in Iron & Steel. She irons; he steels.) | |||
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JERRY -- SEE MY PM ! | |||
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<Asa Lovejoy> |
So far I have Hab, arnie, Kalleh, Jerry, and Jo. Keep them daffynitions coming in! | ||
<Asa Lovejoy> |
Ummm, Jerry, I think you'd best send me another daffynition, since you published yours in the open forum! | ||
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I quit.
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Hehehe - now now, everyone makes mistakes, old man. Don't get your nims in a gimmer. ******* "Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. ~Dalai Lama | |||
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I'm sitting out for this episode of the Bluffing Game Gala, Asa. Here is my last word on nimgimmer.... a dim-witted gimmer named Nim had carved his nickname down from Names just as you might do, too, if this happened to you and they said your real name was James. | |||
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<Asa Lovejoy> |
James? Didn't he write the bible or sumpthin? | ||
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Did I already send one? I can't dismember. ******* "Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. ~Dalai Lama | |||
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<Asa Lovejoy> |
Yes, CW, you did, but since Jerry's sitting this one out, you can submit two! Kinda like the alter-ego persona in the comic strip, "Rose is Rose." Do a really nasty one this time! | ||
<Asa Lovejoy> |
Daffynitions - and the real one too! 1. A hammer used by the Norse during the Viking Age for executions, specifically of persons found guilty of clan members or slaves. 2 A small sailboat used in Scandanavia for travelling between the fjords. 3. A person who gives compliments that are really divsive in nature. 4. One who can't decide, whether deliberately or inadvertently, (first takes away, then gives); a waffler. 5. A weak light, as from a taper. 6. A physician or surgeon, particularly those who cure the venereal disease. 7. intr. To act like a dolt, to play the fool. 8. A lashing that fastens a bowsprit to the stem of a ship. 9. A hand tool used by southern carpenters during the Civil War era to create the cross bars for split rail fences. 10. Australian slang for one who spreads disease. OK, lads and lassies, join arnie in picking the real one! | ||
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Sounds like a nautical term to me. I'll pick 2. Tinman | |||
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4 and 6 sound good so let's say, oh, 6 "No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." Samuel Johnson. | |||
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I think 10 sounds like a word Asa would post . . . but there are so many nautical things, I wonder if it really is some sort of boat-ish word . . . but then again 7 is really good, and so much like me . . . hmm . . . oh, wait . . . guess I better guess #4. ******* "Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. ~Dalai Lama | |||
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I go for 6. 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. | |||
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I will choose number six. For those whom syphyllus can fix, Are a rare breed of docs, Treating rashes and sex pox With nary a "Tut" or a "Tisk." Yes, I know the rhyme and rhythm are strained. It's hard to be creative when you're old. | |||
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I just know I should take 6, but in all fairness I had already picked 3. So I'll go with 3. | |||
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I like #2. | |||
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<Asa Lovejoy> |
Here are the results:
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Hey, Asa! I think I've missed maybe one of these in the time I've been playing the game. I have a rather large vocabulary, just like Arnie. I know the word because I have a very very high tournament scrabble rating under my former name, and I had to study lots of words to get it. Being the wonk that I am, I studied definitions as well as spelling. I used to read the OED for fun. The only reason I don't now is because I don't have access to one. | |||
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What happened to Hab's guess? Can't say that I've heard of this word, even though it apparently is a medical word. However, I don't feel too bad. It wasn't in Onelook, and in OED, there is this definition: 1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew, Nim-gimmer, a Doctor, Surgeon, or Apothecary, or any one that cures a Clap or the Pox. | |||
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I'm not sure. the definition just rang a bell with me. I think I might have seen it on a page-a-day calendar of weird words some time. "No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." Samuel Johnson. | |||
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I've no idea how or even if I actually knew. It seemed right somehow, but I can't say why. 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. | |||
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<Asa Lovejoy> |
Bob, it was on a calendar that I found it. | ||