[Fictionary] reminder: morphew ballot due October 9 (plus a bonus joke)

[Jacob Mattison]

I have morphew ballots from: Hutch, Judith, Melissa, Linda, David, Eric, and Ranjit.

Bonus 2: Hutch offers another possible definition that no one used--

comparative: what you say the SECOND time you dodge the bullet. Superlative: mostphew

Please try to get me your ballot by end-of-day tomorrow (Thursday). 

Thanks!

Jacob



----- Original Message ----
> From: Jacob Mattison <jacobmattison at yahoo.com>
> To: fictionary at swarpa.net
> Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 9:15:03 AM
> Subject: [Fictionary] morphew ballot -- due October 9
> 
> 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."  :)
> 
> ************************
> 
> 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."