Since nobody's jumping in with a new word, I'll do it again: Send me your made-up definition (daffynition) for aiglet via PM.

Mine's in. Thanks for giving us a new word in the new year!

Mine's sent

Five so far, but the one in limerick form leaves me confused. Will the author please help me out!

I'm in.

My gem is in

Mine's in your mailbox.
WM

...It's ten days since aiglet was first proposed - is it time for a vote?

It's time, all right, but I don't ahve the time. I'll give it another day, hoping some more people will PM a daffynition.

Finally, a long enough break to post the daffynitions!

1. The name given to points scored in the sport of Eton Fives which resembles squash but is played with the hand rather than a racquet.

2. Navel body jewelry; belly button ring

3. A cut of beef similar to rib-eye steak.

4. A stone cottage at the tip of a promontory.

5. A small sharp needle (whence aglet, the hard end-piece on a shoelace, from Latin, acus, needle)

6. A small, tan blemish, generally appearing on the skin of the shin or thigh in older human patients.

7. Ornamental filigree on uniforms, etc.

8. A tissue sample containing stem cells, named for Norman Aiglon, biochemist.

That's it; the truth resides somewhere about.

A whore in Horsham named Ruby
Was engaging in some "scooby-dooby."
"Would you take off your coat
Since I think you should note
That your aiglet is scratching my booby."

I'll take seven.

#5 for me, please.

Wordmatic

5. for me, please.

Darn! I reckon arnie should have to vote last because now it's obvious that it must be number 5 so I'm voting for 7.

Harrumph. I wanted to see "a one-egg omelet [Southern US dialect]" or at least "small cruet for salad dressing" 'cuz vinegar is "Sharp Wine" (vin aigre) in French, but no takers.

Guess I'll have to invoke Dick Dauntless* and vote for 5.

[edit typo: dialet --> dialect. Bah.]

*("If you wish in this world to advance/Your merits you're bound to enhance/You must stir it and stump it/and blow your own trumpet/Or trust me you haven't a chance!" -- Ruddigore)

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I know I should take 5, but it's 7 for me. That was my original pick before I read the answers here.

>DOH< I thought aiglet was a wee eagle.

No 7 just because (tell ya later)

quote:

Originally posted by bethree5:
>DOH< I thought aiglet was a wee eagle.

No 7 just because (tell ya later)

...You get "scrambled eggs" on the visor of your uniform hat if you're O4 (Major, in the Army) or above - does that qualify?

Indeed it does, sirrah, especially if embroidered in yolk-yellow cotton threaded through a regulation aiguille

This was an odd round. There were essentially two right answers. Haberdasher stuck a pin in the etymology by saying it was from the Latin for "needle." So, those of you who went for # 5 get credit for a correct response. Also, those who selected # 7 are correct. "Aiglet" is an alternative spelling of "aglet," which many of you know as the little hard tips on shoe laces, but it's a whole lot more! http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/dictionaries/difficu...s/data/d0000457.html and http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/aiglet and http://www.aarg.com.au/Aiglet.htm and http://www.morewords.com/word/aiglet/ Nobody mentioned a catkin or an aeroplene!



1. The name given to points scored in the sport of Eton Fives which resembles squash but is played with the hand rather than a racquet. Bob Hale's daffynition

2. Navel body jewelry; belly button ring Kalleh's submission

3. A cut of beef similar to rib-eye steak. Arnie's daffynition

4. A stone cottage at the tip of a promontory. Proof reader presented the promontory possibility

5. A small sharp needle (whence aglet, the hard end-piece on a shoelace, from Latin, acus, needle) Haberdasher's

6. A small, tan blemish, generally appearing on the skin of the shin or thigh in older human patients. Wordmatic's suggestion

7. Ornamental filigree on uniforms, etc. One of the real ones

8. A tissue sample containing stem cells, named for Norman Aiglon, biochemist. One I threw in

I hope someone will come up with a better word for the next round.

Well, finally I got one right. I had a vague notion of the word, though I wasn't confident at all.

Thanks, Asa!

I think that must have been the first game no-one got wrong; everybody chose either 5 or 7!