[Fictionary] gibus results

[Jim Moskowitz]

>Jim Moskowitz <jim at jimmosk.com>
>gibus: n. -- A glass containing an alcoholic beverage.  "Pass me
>     down a sweech hopfully gibus, and let my melancholy flow." --
>     James Joyce, _Ulysses_
>
>Elliott: 'A lexicographer who has to resort to _Ulysses_ for an 
>illustrative example is in desperate straits indeed!'
>
>Jacob: 'Excellent quote.  1 point.'
>
>Lawrence: 'I enjoyed the Ulysses quote, which nearly does convince 
>me, but alas, no points.'
>
>Pierre: '"sweech hopfully" doesn't mean anything to me. But then neither
>does "brozaozaozing" (see "morepork").'



Gibus sounded unreal to me, and I decided to give it a Joycean 
lineage just like 'quark' has -- a neologism constructed out of parts 
of other words.  Which is why the quote had to be from a Joyce novel, 
since I'm imagining that this is where it was coined.  'Sweech 
hopfully" I actually put more effort into figuring out the 
portmanteau origins of: sweet + rich = sweech, containing hops + 
sought-after = hopfully.

Remember, this is a book which if you'd run the Book meme on (nearest 
book, page 56, 5th sentence) would have provided "Silently at the 
gravehead another coiled the coffinband, his navelcord."
Maybe I should have claimed it was a sentence from Finnegans Wake, 
although I doubt I could have carried on at enough length to simulate 
a sentence from that book... e.g.: "His manslayer's gunwielder 
protended towards that overgrown leadpencil which was soon, 
monumentally at least, to rise as Molyvdokondylon to, to be, to be 
his mausoleum (O'dan stod tillsteyne at meisies aye skould show pon) 
while olover his exculpatory features, as Roland rung, a wee dropeen 
of grief about to sillonise his jouejous, the ghost of resignation 
diffused a spectral appealingness, as a young man's drown o'er the 
fate of his waters may gloat, similar in origin and akkurat in 
effective to a beam of sunshine upon a coffin plate.