Pungle up or shut up

[Aussie Meyer]

Well, that was fun.  It was neck in neck, but Elliott galloped across
the finish line with 5 points for his thing that's more useful as
something else.

Author: Merriam-Webster Online
Score: 2 (Ranjit)
pungle, v. (fr.Sp. póngale put it down) 1851- 1.transitive senses: to
make a payment or contribution of (money) -- usually used with up.   2.
intransitive senses : pay, contribute -- usually used with up.
---"Too complex?" - EZ
---"Nah." - J-J
---"Hmm.  Almost TOO believable, as long as I take the spanish
cite as an exclamation rather than an infinitive verb.  2 pts!" - Ranjit

Author: Jean-Joseph Cote:
Score: 2 (PHMA) +1 (Judith)
pungle - n. - a fishing lure that uses a geometric shape and coloring
pattern, or reflective surfaces, as opposed to resembling any sort of
bait.
---"Two points. There are lots of fishing lures, I've heard, with
obscure names." - PHMA
---"The appearance of both this and the fishook seems too
non-coincidental for neither of them to be completely wrong.  But this
one doesn't sound very dictionary-y." - EZ
---" Mine.  Inspired by "plug", which is an unrelated type of lure (like
a rubber worm?)" - J-J


Author: Eric "EZ" Zuckerman
Score:1 (LDP Miller)
pungle, n.  a flightless shorebird of the upper Nile River valley and
Lake Victoria.
---"I'm a sucker for flightless birds." - LDP Miller
---Well, I'll be surprised if there are any.  Sounds like a dangerous
occupation." - J-J


Author: Conrad Heiney
Score:1 (DRandall) +2 (Elliott)+1 (EZ)
pungle (n.) A four-tined fishhook.
---"Interesting.  Related to my lure definition, but would this have a
name? I've never seen one, but the three-timed version is just called a
"treble hook", as far as I know." - J-J

Author: David Randall
Score: Goose Egg
pungle - n. (fr. Turkish, _punkhil_) - The Jerrold-Foulkes
transliteration of the Ottoman diacritical (abolished by Kemal Ataturk
in 1927) that indicated a soft and slow pronunciation of the marked
vowel.
---"The closest thing to that description is G yumushak, which is still
very much a part of the Turkish orthography. Before Atatürk, Turkish was
written in Arabic letters, which did not fit the language well. I think
this is Elliott playing to lose again." - PHMA
---"Elliott Moreton award." - EC
---" Ladies and gentlemen, let's have a big hand for... David Randall!"
- EZ
---"Looks like Elliott's dissertation has yet to be defended." - J-J
---"Received the Randall-Moreton Award for 2000." - Ranjit

Author: Jim Moskowitz
Score: 2 (EC) +2 (J-J)
pungle, v. To throw with both hands.
---"Honorable mention; nice unoccupied bit of the semantic field there."
- Elliott
---"Sounds too close to fumble." - PHMA
---"Two points.  Not that I think the dictionary says so, but it seems
soccer-playing countries would need a word for this, and now they have
one. - EC
---"I'll give it two points, and if it's right, I'd like to know the
context in which it's used." - J-J

Author: Pierre Abbat
Score: 1 (J-J)
pungle, n. A cloth made in Bengal of hemp and kenaf fiber.
---"This survives the winnowing process to get one point." - J-J

Author: Eric C.
Score:1 (Elliott) +2 (Judith)
pungle, n.  lead angle sheathing beneath the copper flashing at a roof
overhang.
---"If I keep guessing that every construction definition is 
Eric's, eventually I will be right." - Elliott (Indeed!)
---"Reasonable, but I'm not sure Aussie would pick a word like this." -
J-J
(Don't be so sure, I was a construction estimator for many years -
Aussie)

Author: Elliott A. Moreton
Score: 2 (DRandall) + 2 (EZ)+ 1 (Ranjit)
pungle -- 1. (n.) a thing more useful for purposes other than its
intended one.  2. (vt.) to use in an unorthodox way.
---"The noun doesn't sound likely." - PHMA
---"Maybe we should have a word for this... but I don't think we do." - 
J-J
---"Brilliant! 1 pt." - Ranjit

Author: Ranjit Bhatnagar
Score: 2 (correct)+ 1 (PHMA)
pungle (n) - on certain long-haired dogs, the ruff of fur around the
neck.
---"For no particular reason: 1 point." - PHMA
---"Nah." - J-J

Author: Judith Schrier
Score: 1 (EC) +1 (LDP Miller)
pungle, n. A small sled.
---"Simple, elegant, I like." - LDP Miller
---"Nah." J-J