The next word for the Bluffing game is:

Impignorate

Please send me by PM or e-mail your daffynitions, and I will post them next Wednesday. Thanks!

Okay, I'll open the bidding with One.

Mine's on the way.

Ahem! I only have daffynitions from Bob, arnie, Hab and Jo! Come on, let's play!

Kalleh,
I emailed you my correct definition...

Okay...it's Wednesday. I have heard from arnie, Bob, Hab, Jo, Asa, KHC, CW...anyone else? Jerry?

I will post the answers tonight.

I should have let you know earlier. I disqualified myself. The correct definition is no mystery to me.

Thanks anyway.

~~~~ jerry

Well, heck, Jerry, you could have gotten it right then! We don't have to sit these out just because we know the correct definition. Of course, now...everyone would know (unless you chose the wrong one, thus fooling others! ).

You can always send me a daffynition, even if you don't want to guess the correct answer.

Okay, apparently Jerry is sitting this one out. Just remember, folks, if you know the word you can still take part.

Here we go:

1) A technique used in very hot countries to remove the color from something by allowing it to fade in the sunlight.

2) Cause suffering to someone or something.

3) To abandon or give up hope on somebody or something.

4) To mortgage.

5) To attack a well-defended position on foot, in the manner of Zulu warriors.

6) To incorporate into a hairdo.

7) To assign blame or responsibility for fiduciary improprieties.

8) The act of arranging marriages; one pledges one's troth to a total stranger in concordance with familial duties.

9) To fill with aromas.

Go to it!

I like four! Short, sweet, and to the point.

I'll vote for 7.... !

I thought I knew it, but can't see it in the daffynitions. I'll go with 7. then.

seven looks good but I'll try 3 just to be contrary.

I'll take #4

Seven for me, since I'm feeling impecunious right now.

Nothing about food? Very well, then, I'll take number 2.

I choose 1.

Tinman

Any more guesses? I will post the answers tomorrow.

Here are the answers:

1) A technique used in very hot countries to remove the color from something by allowing it to fade in the sunlight. Bob's daffynition; guessed by Tinman

2) Cause suffering to someone or something. Asa's daffynition; guessed by CW

3) To abandon or give up hope on somebody or something. Kalleh's daffynition; guessed by Bob

4) To mortgage. correct...definition from Luciferous Logolepsy; guessed by Hab and Jo, and obviously Jerry knew it as well

5) To attack a well-defended position on foot, in the manner of Zulu warriors. Arnie's daffynition; guessed by no one

6) To incorporate into a hairdo. Hab's daffynition; guessed by no one

7) To assign blame or responsibility for fiduciary improprieties. Jo's daffynition; guessed by KHC, Arnie, and Asa

8) The act of arranging marriages; one pledges one's troth to a total stranger in concordance with familial duties. KHC's daffynition; guessed by no one

9) To fill with aromas. CW's daffynition; guessed by no one

As you can see, Jo is our big winner! Congratulations! Congrats also to Hab (and Jerry)! Who's up next?

How about letting me have another go at it? And you new posters, hop in here!

I had vaguely heard of it and thought it meant "to pawn". OneLook gives "To pledge or pawn".

Only Forthrights Phrontistery and Luciferous Logolepsy mention the word "mortgage", both in conjunction with "pawn".

I thought I might catch somebody by making "impignorate" be something inside a peignoir...guess I don't have a good enough idea of what a peignoir is. I was associating it with "comb."

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You see, Hab, I think you should have let me post your daffy-etymology...then they may have chosen it.

I had vaguely heard of it and thought it meant "to pawn". OneLook gives "To pledge or pawn".

Arnie brings up a good point. If the definition is from several dictionaries (as this one was), can we choose the dictionary, as I did? Or, should we take the definition that is number one in most of the dictionaries, as "pledge" and "pawn" was? I asked Shu about that, and he said that essentially "mortgage" was the same thing. With "impignorare" being "to pawn" in Latin, I didn't want to make it that easy for you Latin scholars.

Sorry, arnie. I may have robbed you this time. As CJ would say...a half a point to you!