Renguera Results

[Hutch]

Fran, how do you picture a "slow jig". To be honest, I was 
figuring after I sent it that those two words in 
combination would be unbelievable; an oxymoron. *LOL*

And Aussie. How dare you make me burst out laughing in the 
middle of the Call Center with your "Reguera Blues"?

First attempt at a new word in a few hours. I don't have 
one ready on tap.

BB,
Hutch

Quoting Aussie Meyer <aussie at woogly.com>:

> Very close race, and it's Hutch's slow jig by a nose
> with 5 points. Perhaps it's slow jigging that makes
> the sheep so swaybacked?
> 
> RENGUERA RESULTS!!!
> 
> Pierre (Correct 1, from Ranjit 1, from Hutch 2)
> renguera, n. [Mozambican Portuguese, from Makhuwa
> renge, medicine, magic potion) Mozambican witch
> doctor.
> 
> Jean-Joseph (from Ranjit 2)
> renguera - n. - Black linen trousers.
> 
> "two pants -- i mean points!" - Ranjit
> "All the words I can think of for trousers in Spanish
> have them as masculine, and plural. For that matter,
> pants, trousers, and shorts are plural in English. If
> it were 'rengueras', yes, but no points for this one.
> (Can you have a pant? A short? A trouser?)" - Hutch
> 
> Merriam-Webster Unabridged (from Elliott 2, from
> Pierre 1)
> renguera - n. - (American Spanish, lameness, from
> rengo lame, from Spanish renco, probably of Germanic
> origin; akin to Old English wrencan to twist)
> swayback of sheep.
> 
> "Plausible definition and very attractive etymology.
> Two big points" - Elliott
> "A Spanish word of Germanic origin? I suppose there
> are some, but this one doesn't strike me as right.
> Besides, shouldn't there be a comma after
> "swayback"?" - Hutch
> "One point for plausibility, though Spanish words of
> Germanic origin aren't as common as French words of
> Germanic origin." - Pierre
> 
> Ranjit (from David 2, from Hutch 1)
> renguera (n) - an embossed saddle.
> 
> Fran
> renguera, (n) fringed leather poncho.
> 
> Elliott (correct 2)
> renguera -- (n.) 1.  The Panamanian homing parrot
> (Psitticus nostos), noted for its physical similarity
> to the scarlet macaw, and its ability and
> determination to return to its home across great
> distances.  2. (Naut. sl.)  A swindle.
> 
> "The genus is Psittacus, and I don't think any other
> parrot could be mistaken for a macaw. " - Pierre
> 
> Hutch (from David 1, from Fran 2, from Pierre 2)
> renguera - n - slow Guatemalan jig.
> 
> "being a sucker for dance defs, I choose the jig for
> two points, and I am having fun imagining a slow jig"
> - Fran
> 
> Linda (from Elliott 1)
> renguera, n. - a chaps grommet.
> 
> "Seems too specific" - Hutch
> "What the heck" - Elliott
> 
> David R.(from Fran 1)
> renguera - n. - a pygmy capybara.
> 
> "A pygmy giant rat? Naah" - Hutch
> 
> ===========================================
> 
> I went to visit my renguera,
> yes, down in Mozambique,
> I said "Doctor, can you help me
> I am feeling kinda sikh."
> 
> He said, "Give me your renguera
> it's embossed like a sombrera,
> atop your pony with the swayback
> like a lamb with the renguera!"
> 
> So I hitched up my renguera,
> black and flaxen, and mayhaps,
> the fringe of my renguera,
> caught the dang renguera on my chaps.
> 
> And then a Guatemalan lovely,
> came and did a little dance,
> the sensual renguera
> and I never stood a chance.
> 
> Like a renguera flying high in the sky
> to its home in Panama,
> with a renguera in its beak for lunch,
> (and looking like a red macaw).
> 
> Don't get bilked in some renguera,
> Sailors say that it's bad news -
> How right they were to warn me
> I've got the renguera blues!