Bruised, Scratched, and Foul-smelling, but Victorious!
Aussie Meyer
aussie at wt.net
Sun Nov 28 09:47:15 EST 2004
Judith wins the round with 7, although Ranjit and Webster's 1913 put up
a good fight!
Source: Jean-Joseph
Score: 2 (Ranjit)
ranny - v. - To rake grass in a uniform direction.
Comments: "I can imagine Groundskeeper Willy cursing at the schoolkids
who dare to run on his carefully rannied lawn." - Ranjit
Source: PHMA
Score: * (Imaginary Point).
ranny - n.- A Provençal dish of frogs, tomatoes, peppers, and onions.
Comments: "If you need a tie-breaker, give this an imaginary point."- Hutch
"FROGS? Whole frogs? Yechh, I didn't think anybody would cook with
whole frogs. In fact, just last week a friend and I were thinking, and
the only case we could come up with where people eat amphibians is
frog's legs. But who knows, maybe this will turn out to be it. Yechh."
- J-J
(Editorial note: Dang, are gators and turtles amphibs? Guess not.)
Source: Eric, AKA silent-e
Score: 2 (PHMA)
ranny - n.- Austral. a long-distance cross-country foot race.
Comments: "'ranny' after it's over, but 'runny' during the race?" - Judith
"Two points for sounding like 'running' and 'randonnée'." - Pierre
Source: Judith
Score: 2 (Eric) + 1 (PHMA) + 2 (J-J) + 2 (Correct) = 7 total
ranny:- adj. - badly bruised or scratched, also foul smelling.
Source: Ranjit
Score: 1 (Hutch) +1 (Linda) + 1 (Judith) + 1 (J-J) + 1 (Correct) = 5 total
ranny - n. - (England and Scotland) sarcastic nickname for a spoiled
young girl
Source: Webster's 1913 Dictionary, via Hyperdictionary.com
Score: 1 (Ranjit) + 2 (Linda) +2 (Hutch) = 5 total
ranny - n.- (from Latin araneus mus, a kind of small mouse) The erd
shrew. (Scot.)
Comments: "Although I don't know what erd is, I like the idea of an erd
shrew, so 1 pt." - Ranjit
"Spider mouse? What's an erd?" - PHMA
Source: LindaFOwens
Score: 2 (Correct)
ranny - adj. - having a rusty reddish color, as in natural fabric dyes
made from the iron-rich soil of the South.
Comments: "You ought to see my reddish natural hair dye - now turned
brownish with walnuts." - PHMA
"Reminds me of 'raddle'." - J-J
(Editorial comment: Dying fabrics with dirt? Tut tut!)
Source: "Language of the Livestock Mart" cited by Dictionary of American
Regional English (DARE), according to thediscouragingword.com
Score: 2 (Judith)
ranny - n. - common-bred southern calf of poor quality.
There is, actually, an interesting digression into the ranch-style ranny
at http://www.thediscouragingword.com/archives/arc11.shtml, which I
stumbled over searching for "rannygazoo". And, speaking of rannygazoo,
I close with this bit of doggerel from Pierre:
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A runner in Canberra's ranny
Was heard to remark to a ranny:
Your ranny red blouse
Would look good on a mouse
But not on the loins of a ranny.
A gardener with his knee ranny
Did suffer the bite of a ranny
While rannying wheat
He sat down to eat
His dinner of rabage and ranny.
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Take it and run, JUDITH!
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