Since the only person who'll positively know this word's usage in English (it's a German loan word) doesn't participate in this game, I'm hoping nobody else knows it. Give it a try - send me a PM daffynition.
May 31, 2009, 21:50
Kalleh
Mine's on the way. Thanks for the revival!
June 01, 2009, 05:58
BobHale
I sent one.
"No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." Samuel Johnson.
June 02, 2009, 06:29
<Asa Lovejoy>
I've got arnie, Kalleh, Bob and WM so far. I want more people!!!!!!
June 02, 2009, 22:51
David Franks
I've sent one.
June 03, 2009, 08:10
wordmatic
Welcome, David!
Wordmatic (lapsed OEDILFer)
June 03, 2009, 11:08
<Proofreader>
Several have emanated from my war room.
June 03, 2009, 21:03
Kalleh
Well, David, isn't it nice to see you again? Pull up a chair and stay awhile.
June 03, 2009, 21:43
<Asa Lovejoy>
We've almost got a quorum! I'll wait until Saturday to post the daffynitions and the real one.
June 06, 2009, 09:10
<Asa Lovejoy>
It's clear that I should have kept my mouth shut about only one person knowing it for sure!
1. Term for an empty–headed, brainless dimwit. Stella's submission.
2. In radiation thermodynamics, a cavity whose walls are in radiative equilibrium with the radiant energy within the cavity.
The real thing, as Bob, arnie, and Stanley surmised. I learned this word while visiting here: https://lasers.llnl.gov/ It's the container for the target of all these monster lasers.
3. A toilet stall or outhouse Beethree asked if we do "wqlk-ins." She walked right into David Franks's outhouse! Ewwww!
4. An aperture in the front of a medieval German knight's jousting helmet.
Proofreader's submission
5. An ancient word for an amalgam of bronze and iron.
Also Proofreader's
6. The inner sanctum; the holy of holies.
Wordmatic got Stella feeling all holy, but it's heresy! Don't anyone burn anyone else at the stake, OK?
7. The hole left in a wall by bricklayers for the later installation of a window. Arnie's hole defenestrated WM.
8. The feeling of ecstasy that Schizophrenics can experience when they commit murder.
I wonder who Kalleh was thinking of when she wrote this one?
9. An insult. Equivalent to "airhead".
Bob Hale's submission
10. Early German word for "brassiere," now an haute-couture dress with an accentuated bodice.
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June 06, 2009, 09:33
<Proofreader>
I have a feeling the correct answer is #10, even though I know the modern synonym in German is "Overdershoulderboulderholder."
June 06, 2009, 09:57
<Asa Lovejoy>
Nein, ist "keepumfrumfloppen."
June 06, 2009, 10:26
BobHale
Purely because I have absolutely no idea what it means, I'll tale number two please.
"No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." Samuel Johnson.
June 06, 2009, 11:05
<Proofreader>
quote:
ist "keepumfrumfloppen
I think it is "schtopzemfrommfloppen."
June 06, 2009, 11:30
wordmatic
I'll take #7, please.
June 06, 2009, 12:58
BobHale
This selection of suggestions for the German for bra are amusing. But so is the real word - Büstenhalter.
"No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money." Samuel Johnson.
June 06, 2009, 14:26
<Proofreader>
quote:
But so is the real word - Büstenhalter.
spoilsport NASA calls them "Knockerdockers"
June 06, 2009, 20:16
bethree5
Do you take "walk-ins"? If so, I'll try #3.
June 06, 2009, 23:29
stella
I like the sound of #6.
June 07, 2009, 00:56
arnie
I'll take 2. for the same reason as Bob.
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.
June 08, 2009, 04:33
Stanley
I'm leaning towards No.2 as well, because Mr Lovejoy was pretty certain that one person would know the definition and that suggests it's rather specialized. Unless he just meant because they're German. Which he might have done.
------------------------ If your rhubarb is forwards, bend it backwards.
June 09, 2009, 20:45
<Asa Lovejoy>
quote:
It's clear that I should have kept my mouth shut about only one person knowing it for sure!
1. Term for an empty–headed, brainless dimwit. Stella's submission.
2. In radiation thermodynamics, a cavity whose walls are in radiative equilibrium with the radiant energy within the cavity.
The real thing, as Bob, arnie, and Stanley surmised. I learned this word while visiting here: https://lasers.llnl.gov/ It's the container for the target of all these monster lasers.
3. A toilet stall or outhouse Beethree asked if we do "walk-ins." She walked right into David Franks's outhouse! Ewwww!
4. An aperture in the front of a medieval German knight's jousting helmet.
Proofreader's submission
5. An ancient word for an amalgam of bronze and iron.
Also Proofreader's
6. The inner sanctum; the holy of holies.
Wordmatic got Stella feeling all holy, but it's heresy! Don't anyone burn anyone else at the stake, OK?
7. The hole left in a wall by bricklayers for the later installation of a window. Arnie's hole defenestrated WM.
8. The feeling of ecstasy that Schizophrenics can experience when they commit murder.
I wonder who Kalleh was thinking of when she wrote this one?
9. An insult. Equivalent to "airhead".
Bob Hale's submission
10. Early German word for "brassiere," now an haute-couture dress with an accentuated bodice.
I submitted this uplifting item just for Proofreaders pleasure.
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