Vetiver Revealed

[Nicolas Ward]

On 6/5/07, lindafowens <lindafowens at netzero.net> wrote:
> 8) vetiver, n.—a bureaucrat whose job it is to confirm that information on a
> form is correct and complete.
>
>             By Nicholas—1 point  (0 plus 1 point for correct guess).
>
>             JJ—verifier.  Nicholas—verify?

Yeah, I was thinking how you "vet" a candidate... I didn't actually
know what that was short for, so this seemed a plausible thing to make
up.

TSOR says that "to vet" is a word all on its own, although it came
from vet as in veterinarian. Learn something new every day.

--Nick

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