<div dir="ltr"><div>I just got back from a visit to Oregon (Rockaway Beach and Portland) where I ate SO MANY wild blackberries, and that's what inspired my mitskwema def! <br></div><div><br></div><div>- Ranjit</div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Sep 7, 2021 at 5:58 PM Fran Poodry <<a href="mailto:fpoodry@gmail.com">fpoodry@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Man, y'all sure don't live in the Pacific Northwest, where berries are king and if misqueme was really a relative of the blackberry it would be at all the farmers markets. I'ma go get some salmonberries now. Maybe eat some marionberry pie later. LOL.<div>-Fran</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Sep 7, 2021 at 5:22 AM Ranjit Bhatnagar <<a href="mailto:ranjit@moonmilk.com" target="_blank">ranjit@moonmilk.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>Quick response to say that I did get the email! Whatever ate the first few misqueme emails is - I hope - sated now, and I did receive the reply that Pierre sent without the bcc. <br></div><div><br></div><div>I'll find a new word soon!</div><div><br></div><div>- r.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Sep 7, 2021 at 12:43 AM Hutch <<a href="mailto:hutchinson.jeff@gmail.com" target="_blank">hutchinson.jeff@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div>It was a three-way tie (Elliot's 'heckle', Fran's 'indigenous name', and David's 'bee disease') until the last two votes came in on Monday. And they sent Ranjit's 'Washington blackberry' from behind to a SOLID victory.</div><div><br></div><div>The real story here is that the real definition ('displease') got NO votes at all. No one even commented on it.</div><div><br></div><div>Ranjit: you're up to bat!</div><div><br></div><div>(NOTE: Ranjit was the member who didn't receive the early emails. I've BCC'ed him again, but if anyone has direct contact with him, let him know if he doesn't respond in the next few days.)<br></div><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr"><div>BB,</div><div>Hutch</div><div> </div><div>-----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK-----</div><div>Version: 3.1</div><div>GCM/S d+>- s+:+ a++ C+++$ ULAC>$ P+ L+ !E W++$</div><div>N+ o K? w++++/--$ O? M- V? PS+ PE/- Y PGP- t++ 5?</div><div>X-- R !tv? b++++>$ DI++++ D G+> e++ h+ r--?* y++></div><div>------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>misqueme - v. - to heckle a speaker by mischievously answering a rhetorical question<br>by eLLioTT morEton 3<br>1 Eric Cohen<br>2 Ranjit Bhatnagar<br><br>misqueme - n. - An expansive mangrove swamp laced with narrow waterways navigable by canoe, with scattered islets large enough to support small groups of huts<br>by Jean-Joseph Cote 1<br>1 Pierre Abbat<br><br>misqueme - n - [French misquème, from Arabic misqim, from saqum, sycomore] 1. A Lebanese sauce made from sycomore figs and dates, spiced with cinnamon and thyme 2. A dish of chicken, lamb, goat, or beans with this sauce<br>by Pierre Abbat 1<br>1 Ranjit Bhatnagar<br><br>misqueme - v. - to dance down an aisle or runway in a sashaying gait<br>by Linda F Owens 0<br><br>misqueme - n. - a geological feature that approximates the name of the feature as known by indigenous people local to the region surrounding the feature. Ex: The name of Mooselookmeguntic Lake in Maine, United States is a misqueme, since the name approximates an Abnaki word meaning "place where moose eat."<br>by Fran Poodry 3<br>David Randall: I am at Moosehead Lake in Maine, on vacation, right now!<br>2 Eric Cohen: Two points. And well-deserved, because i) this needs a word for it, and ii) the author went to the trouble of typing "Mooselookmeguntic".<br>1 Linda F Owens: One point for the indigenous geological forms. Chicopee [MA] means The Falls, in Algonkian, btw. My Dad worked in redundant Chicopee Falls for many decades.<br><br>misqueme - n. - a bee colony suffering from infectious sexual dysphoria, transmitted by wax moths<br>by David Randall 3: Kipling’s The Hive is the source, fyi.<br> Eric Cohen: Wax moths don't transmit sexual dysphoria, they transmit death. (Also, possibly, socialism -- cf. Kipling, "The Mother Hive".)<br>2 Linda F Owens: Sadly, we lost all of our bees a few decades ago to Acarine Mites. So, two points for the poor disoriented bees.<br> Pierre Abbat: I don't beelieve it. Are we talking about honeybees, bumblebees, sweat bees, or what?<br>1 Jean-Joseph Cote<br><br>misqueme - v. - to displease; to offend<br>Real: _Forthright's Phrontistery: Obscure Words and Vocabulary Resources: Compendium of Lost Words_ 0<br><br>misqueme - n. - The attestation required from a diocesan bishop for the establishment of any religious house within the diocese<br>by E Cohen 1<br>1 David Randall<br><br>misqueme - n. - (var. mitskwema) a relative of the blackberry, endemic to the Pacific Northwest of the United States<br>by Ranjit Bhatnagar 6<br>2 David Randall<br>2 Pierre Abbat<br>2 Jean-Joseph Cote<br></div></div></div></div>
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