[Fictionary] dogdrave results: fiddler wins!

[eLLioTT morEton]

On Tue, 7 Apr 2009, Hutch wrote:

> Umm, Elliott, does this actually MEAN something? What???

> On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 7:30 AM, Pierre Abbat <phma at phma.optus.nu> wrote:
> [snippety]
>> dogdrave, n. A packing item  (as of LDPE, expanded polystyrene, cardboard,
>> etc.) complexly formed or molded so as to closely fit the enclosed item or
>> some portion thereof; as distinct from _sten_ (c.f.), unformed packing fill.
> [snappety]
>> Elliott: I admire the refreshingly blatant disregard for phonotactic cues to
>> lexical stratum membership, because it's so blatant in such a refreshing way.
> [snip]

Translation:  "I like the way the author deliberately put an old- and 
Germanic-sounding word together with a high-tech modern definition that in 
real life I'd expect to have a Latiny/Greeky name."  But I was at work, so 
it came out all buzzwords.

em