[Fictionary] morphew ballot -- due October 9

[Jacob Mattison]

Here's the morphew ballot.  As always, please supply one 1-point vote and one 2-point vote.  Please try to get me votes by end-of-day Thursday, October 9.

Since no one used either of the jokes Melissa had in mind, I'll add her note as a bonus: "You know that I, like everyone else, want to say that morphew is either what you call the child of your sibling after gender reassignment surgery or the time by which you have to be asleep or there will be hell to pay in the morning."  :)

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morphew, n. (Irish dialect, fr. Gaelic morbha)  1. a wild animal that has escaped from a trap by chewing off its leg; 2. an evicted tenant who has murdered his landlord.


morphew, n. A relative who shows up unexpectedly when least wanted, usually at dinner time.


morphew, n. 1. A blemish or mark on the skin  2. Blisters cause by scurvy. "Even the pox is afraid to touch thy morphewed carcase."  John Fowles, A Maggot 


morphew, n. A finial in an animal shape, most often a raven or an owl


morphew, v.i. 1. to juggle 2. to throw props onstage [fr. Cecil Morphew (1720-1787), a stage juggler famous for performing a two-person juggling act in which he and his partner began a short distance from one another, then backed away until they were in the wings with only the juggled items visible to the audience]


morphew, n. A goat with the canoe-face mutation.


morphew, n. A coarse woollen cloth made for the Indian trade.


morphew, n. An opium-based medication, popular in the early 19th Century, which lost favor after the deaths of many users and was eventually banned.


morphew, n. A sacrificial ceremony in certain Germanic cultures circa 200CE in which a youth was pressed into a peat bog under heavy stones. See Tacitus.


morphew, v. In construction, to strip old asphalt from a road.


morphew, n. Sketches, models, failures, and other by-products created by an artist in the course of making a finished work.  "Mr Reynolds is to become Painter at Balmoral, and the Prince of Wales is to have the morphew of him."