[Fictionary] 🚨Yaffle is out alert the media🚨

[Joshua Randall]

Jacob wins with 7 points! Real def got four. Apparently google AI says that
yaffle is a bird (?) but it is also the Newfoundland thing.


Jacob 7: + 1 for real

Yaffle (n): (Jargon) In landscaping, underbrush that must be cleared away
before the actual contracted work can be done.

David 1, Ranjit 1, Pierre 2, J-J 2

Pierre: I've seen bushes that were cleared away before construction of a
house was

done. Two points.

J-J: I've got a yardful of this. Two points, why not?

David 1

yaffle - (v.) - (Roscommon dial.) to plant a hillside with alternating rows
of potatoes, parsley, and carrots.

Pierre 1

J-J: I have to wonder if there's a separate word for using this planting
pattern on level ground. Or maybe there's no reason to do it on level
ground?

Ranjit 4: + 2 for real

yaffle (n) - [noncount] non-currency items accidentally left in a tip jar
such as shopping lists, gum wrappers, etc.

Eric 2

Eric: What a great word. Two points.

J-J: Not sure what "[noncount]" means, but this sounds like a sniglet.

Eric 0

yaffle, n. Traditional Jamaican dish consisting of chicken, goat, beef, or
smoked fish, wrapped in mashed boiled plantain and deep fried.

J-J: But not pork, I guess?

J-J 1: + 1 for real

yaffle - v. - to exfoliate by bead blasting.

J-J: Mine, intended to sound like a hideously unpleasant process. But no
price is too high in the pursuit of fashion.

Pierre 0

yaffle, v. To adjust the play in the mechanism of a horse-drawn carriage.

Eric: One bonus point, because I almost chose this.

J-J: I'm not sure what part of the carriage is the "mechanism". Seems like
there are several places where one might make adjustments.

Elliott 5

yaffle (v.) --- to talk like a middle-aged person trying to talk like

a young person.

Eric 1, David 2, Jacob 2

Eric: I fear that this is how an old person thinks a young person would
describe an old person trying to talk like a young person. Still, one point.

Pierre: This is most like the def I've seen in, I think, Sniglets, which
was to talk loudly to a foreigner hoping it'll be easier to understand. But
this seems less plausible than that.

J-J: I would make some snarky comment here in the style of this definition,
but I'm afraid I don't qualify as a middle-aged person any more.

REAL: 4
yaffle (n). (Newfoundland) an armful or load, usually of dried and salted
fish or of kindling.

Jacob 1, Ranjit 2, J-J 1

J-J: Whimsical. I heard on the radio that whimsy is all the rage right now,
so one point.
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