It has been awhile since I have posted a bluffing game word. So...what are your daffynitions for: Powfag?

Put on your thinking caps, and send me your daffynitions via PMs. Please do not delete you PM until the game is over.

Thanks...and let's get going!

mine's on the way.

I have sent mine.

I also sent one.

I've got about 6 now. Any more?

Just sent mine.

Tomorrow's the day for posting the daffynitions. Any more before then? I got some nice ones!

Tomorrow has come and gone...and no daffynitions, right? Sorry! I wasn't on the computer for one moment yesterday, with our work holiday party and then our family's Hanukkah party.

Here they are!

1) It's the utterance of a politically correct street warden whilst delivering an uppercut to a chap with a cigarette dangling from the corner of his mouth.

2) To gossip; to make up stories about others.

3) Contemptuous slang term used by modern young Native Americans to describe the ritual pipe passed amongst the men of the tribe at Pow Wows.

4) To work to the point of exhaustion.

5) Declaration of war. (from Hopi tribal language).

6) To search diligently, but without result.

7) A subspecies of leech, Hirundinea Powfagia, found commonly in freshwater streams in the US Appalachian region.

8) A type of woven hat made in South America.

9) A type of Iroquois tribal conference in which cigarettes, rather than peace pipes, were smoked.

It's a cigarette smoking Hopi leech that's belligerent and works too hard.

No? OK, I'll guess #8

4. please.

1 is clearly a joke.

3,9 and maybe 5 are blatant red herrings. Although, I don't know, they could just look like red herrings, maybe pinkish herring.

2,4 and 6 are verbs and it sounds like a noun to me.

7 can't surely be true, the "a type of x found in y" snowclones are never true, are they?

That leaves me with a woolly hat and as my Dad wanted a woolly hat for Christmas, I'll go with that.

8 please.

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

#4 for me, also.

I'll go with that blatant red herring, #5.

Wordmatic

Pearce has PMd me that he chooses #2.

Because of the holidays, I will give it a few more days. Anyone else?

I guess #4.

Good word, btw.

Thanks, CW! I chose it because I knew people could come up with a lot of fun daffynitions. I found it only on Tsuwm's site (in his Hogwash section), and therefore was surprised that so many of you got it right. That's the way it goes, I guess. Here are the answers:

1) It's the utterance of a politically correct street warden whilst delivering an uppercut to a chap with a cigarette dangling from the corner of his mouth. [Surely this came from a British poster, right? This was Pearce's daffynition; he had no takers.]

2) To gossip; to make up stories about others. [Kalleh's red herring; Pearce selected this one.]

3) Contemptuous slang term used by modern young Native Americans to describe the ritual pipe passed amongst the men of the tribe at Pow Wows.[Jo's daffynition, though she sent me another that she thought might be considered "too un-PC;" no takers...perhaps her "un-PC" one would have worked!]

4) To work to the point of exhaustion. [Good heavens; we have a lot of erudite people here. This was only in the WWFTD Dictionary, and yet Jo, CW, and Arnie knew it!]

5) Declaration of war. (from Hopi tribal language). [Bob's daffynition (he calls his own a "blatent red herring?"; Wordmatic took the bait...pun not intended!]

6) To search diligently, but without result. [Arnie's daffynition, and I would have chosen this one...Bob, I thought it sounded like a verb; however, there were no takers.]

7) A subspecies of leech, Hirundinea Powfagia, found commonly in freshwater streams in the US Appalachian region. [Asa's daffynition; again this one sounded like the real thing to me, but there were no takers.]

8) A type of woven hat made in South America. [CW's daffynition, and Asa and Bob were bluffed.]

9) A type of Iroquois tribal conference in which cigarettes, rather than peace pipes, were smoked. [Wordmatic's daffynition...this did sound like an Indian word to you Wordcrafters, didn't it? No takers.]

I had no idea I was guessing correctly, Kalleh -I was just guessing!

*does dance of joy around kitchen for guessing right AND for folling Asa and Bob*

*giggles maniacally*