Slub is your new word. Send me daffynitions by PM. This one should garner some truly nutty daffynitions!

I totally missed this post before! My suggested definition is on the way!

In the post.

Welllll, does anyone else care to submit a daffynition? Newbies are most welcome! Send me a made-up, fanciful definition for this word via PM!

Daffy on the way. S'lubberly.

BTW I'll be away and totally out of touch all next week; see if you can wait for me before you tally the votes?

Thanks, Hab. Jo, please see PM regarding your daffynition!

Asa, sent daffynition by email.

How many do you have now, Asa?

I've let this drag on for a loooooonnnggg time, so I figure everybody who wants to has had a chance to send me a daffynition. Here they are - plus the real one, of course:

1. The new guy at the factory; he's working on the conveyor belt and he knows nothing!

2. Dye used in making batik fabric; slub is thicker and drier than normal fabric dye.

3. the thick liquid used in making clay pottery by slip-casting, before it is poured into the mold

4. the dirt that collects between cracks and crevices.

5. To extend fibres and twist while carding.

6. A mixture of slate chippings and cement used for decorative resurfacing.

7. the liquid skimmed off the top of vats used to cure cheese.

8. The residue left in a bottle of wine after decanting.

9. Petrified bodily excretions other than dung.

There you have 'em lads and ladies! What's the real one?

Number 6, please.

#7, please...

There's a certain similarity to many of the definitions. I guess slub just sounds like some kind of horrible residue.

I'll try 2.

9 is so gross I have to choose it.

3. for me, please.

Like so many great ones before me, I will TAKE FIVE...

Ya know, I could really have done without those definitions. ICK...

(say after me three times: I am not a prude...)

I've dragged this game out a very long time, but did manage to get a couple of late-comers, so I guess it was worth it!

1. The new guy at the factory; he's working on the conveyor belt and he knows nothing!

KHC contributed, but the new guy didn't get no respect!

2. Dye used in making batik fabric; slub is thicker and drier than normal fabric dye.

Jo snared Bob with this fabrication!

3. the thick liquid used in making clay pottery by slip-casting, before it is poured into the mold

Haberdasher dashed this off before he dashed off to parts unknown, suckering arnie as he went.

4. the dirt that collects between cracks and crevices.

Kalleh's dirty daffynition didn't do it for anyone.

5. To extend fibres and twist while carding.

This was a "giveaway" for Jo, since she's a weaver/spinner/quilter, although the dictionary definition doesn't make sense. Jo, don't you slub while spinning, not carding?

6. A mixture of slate chippings and cement used for decorative resurfacing.

Bob Hale's mixture mired Kalleh!

7. the liquid skimmed off the top of vats used to cure cheese.

KHC fell into Caterwauller's vat, making for some lumpy cheese!

8. The residue left in a bottle of wine after decanting.

Arnie had no takers for his wine. Is this a first? Arnie DIDN'T get it right, AND didn't fool anyone? Incredible!!!

9. Petrified bodily excretions other than dung.

I don't know if somethiing like a coprolite exists for non-dung substances, but CW believed me. Ewwwwwww!

Arnie, how about redeeming yourself by fooling us all with a new word?

DH (Rex) and I both spin. To slub is to extrude the carded fibers as you spin, either twisting them by hand or running them through multiple spindles on the way to the wheel for spinning. I did find one reference to slubbing while carding. This applied to use of a powered carder as opposed to hand carding. As the cleaned and separated hairs come out of the carder they are slubbed or twisted together to form the roving, which is essentially a long tube of extruded fibers. You then take slivers from the roving and slub them on their way to the spindle or wheel. (more than you wanted to know? LOL)

jo... thanks for the extras! Wish I had any idea of what you are talking about!

Arnie: New word??

Are the Bluffing Game and En-Titled no longer of interest? I see that Four Letters, Six Letters, and Names are very active, but these two are moribund - or worse.

Asa, skulking off into his hovel on the hill, muttering under his breath that the disadvantage to being a curmudgeon is that nobody wants to play with you.

I'll start them both off again if you like.
I'll go and do it now.