Put on your thinking caps (except for you, Arnie! )...send me your daffynitions via PM for the word Mackabroin. I will give you a few days, and then I will post them.

Ahem! I only have one measly daffynition. Come on, folks!

Now you have two!

I have 5 now...but I need more! Pretty please? With sugar?

Anybody else? I am waiting...

Can you at least _buy_ a broin, if no one wants to mack one?

Alright bluffers, here we go:

Mackabroin's real definition is which of the following?

1. A small, flat-bottomed rowing boat used in the south of Ireland.

2. New Brunswick version of fish stew.

3. A hideous old woman.

4. A bear-cub.

5. A lever for dislodging rocks from land before being tilled.

6. Liquid that is thick and gummy, sticky.

7. One of the five ligaments that connects the liver to the diaphragm and abdominal wall.

8. Australian; knee-length pants made of a durable tan-coloured fabric.

9. A pastie made of spiced mashed potates, game bird, turnips, sharp cheese, and chutney, wrapped in a crust of whole wheat and corn flours.

It's a hideous old woman with broken liver ligaments and a stick for digging rocks out of the sticky stuff on the bottoms of Irish boats used to transport bear cubs to New Brusnwick. No, it's a small, flat-bottomed old woman wearing Aussie knickers while eating pasties!

#3, I guess.

mMMMMMMMM I'm hungry . . . so #9 looks good . . .

but my guess is #5

three, please

I'll try some fish stew please.
2.

A goodly lot, these!

They're small. I'll take 2.

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Originally posted by haberdasher:
Can you at least _buy_ a broin, if no one wants to mack one?

Didn't the scarecrow go to Oz to get one?

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Originally posted by Asa Lovejoy:

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Originally posted by haberdasher:
Can you at least _buy_ a broin, if no one wants to mack one?

Didn't the scarecrow go to Oz to get one?

Actually no. The scarecrow was already in Oz, being an upstanding (at least with a pole up his back) citizen of that fair land.

Just call me a picky old pedant in the matter of children's books.

On the other hand in "The Royal Book of Oz" he does slide down a beanpole (which is part of his family tree) and discovers that he is in fact the long lost Emperor of the Silver Island. That's a later book by Ruth Plumly Thompson though so it may not be true.

Not sure what Hab meant by "They're small."

Any more guesses, people? Arnie? Come on, I must fool you!

I will post the answers tomorrow.

"Take two, they're small!"

I'll take 3. please.

3, please.

If this weren't a highly sophisticated, intellectual board, I'd say CRAP! But I won't.

Here are the answers, and I'd love to know how all of you knew this word. It was in precisely one dictionary, the online Grandiloquent Dictionary, which probably means it's not even a word. Grrrrr!

1. A small, flat-bottomed rowing boat used in the south of Ireland. Provided by Bob; guessed by no one

2. New Brunswick version of fish stew. Provided by Jo; guessed by Bob and Hab.

3. A hideous old woman. online Grandiloquent Dictionary; guessed by Asa, Jo, Arnie and Saranita

4. A bear-cub. Provided by Arnie; guessed by no one

5. A lever for dislodging rocks from land before being tilled. Provided by Asa; guessed by CW

6. Liquid that is thick and gummy, sticky. Provided by CW; guessed by no one.

7. One of the five ligaments that connects the liver to the diaphragm and abdominal wall. Provided by yours truly and (as usual) guessed by no one

8. Australian; knee-length pants made of a durable tan-coloured fabric. Provide by Hab; guessed by no one.

9. A pastie made of spiced mashed potates, game bird, turnips, sharp cheese, and chutney, wrapped in a crust of whole wheat and corn flours. Provided by Jo; guessed by no one.

After doing a little searching, I did find it in the online OED, though spelled "mackabroine." It is apparently rare and obsolete, and here was the entry: "1546 J. HEYWOOD Dial. Prov. II. vi. J, Suche an olde wytche, suche a mackabroyne, As euermore lyke a hog hangeth the groyne, On her husband. except he be hir slaue." We have some erudite people here (present company excluded )!

Wow - good word, Kalleh! Don't be discouraged - isn't this game all about seeing how fun the definitions can be?

Oh, I am not discouraged. Someday, somewhere, I will win this game!

AND you'll never be an old hag either! Rejoice!!! But what's with this "hog hangeth the groyne" business? Sounds painful!