[Fictionary] plew results

[Fran Poodry]

I would love to hand off to Linda! What a great suggestion, Jacob!
Linda, would you like to run the next round?
-Fran

On Wed Sep 15 10:15 , Jacob Mattison  sent:

>Great round, everybody.  Nice distribution of points: most defs got two, a few got more,the 
winner only got six.
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>The winner is Fran for her sealable temporary opening.  Fran: I know you ran the last round and 
I hope the new-school-year busyness has eased up some; I'm sure we'll all understand if you 
prefer to hand off to the second place winner (Linda, with five points for the shore bird; my 
sense is that a lot of people thought hers was the real def even if they didn't vote for it).
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>General comments:
>Pierre: None of these is the least bit plewsible!
>Ranjit: I'm surprised not to see any rain or weeping defs, not that I thought
>of that when I was making up my own.
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>Knock knock:
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>Knock knock!
>Who's there?
>Plew!
>Plew who?
>Plew van Pelt, of Douglas Furs!
>(Pierre)
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>KK, Who's there? Plewperry. Plewperry who? Plewperry Bye.  Sorry.(Linda)
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>plew, n. A non-rectangular paving stone for curved, irregular, or decorative placement.
>Eric (3 points)
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>1 point: Fran, Judith
>2 points: David
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>Fran: nicely boring
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>plew, n. 1. Misread handwriting. 2. Nonsense.
>Jim (2 points)
>1 point for correct guess
>1 point: Pierre
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>pleu, n. Usu. in phr. "good pleu", of a restaurant or the like, ventilation which allows smells 
to linger in place, but not to mingle or circulate.
>Elliott (2 points)
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>2 points: Linda
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>Elliott: Auuugh!  My eyes are going!  I misread the w as a u.  Damn, damn, damn.
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>plew, n. A temporary opening between airtight chambers, intended to be sealed.
>Fran (6 points)
>2 points for correct guess
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>2 points: Pierre, Ranjit
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>Ranjit: Space Marines, seal all plews and prepare for combat!
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>plew, n. A beaver skin, esp. one of fine quality.
>Random House Dictionary of the English Language (3 points)
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>1 point: Jim
>2 points: Fran
>Fran: I know nothing about the fur trade, other than I supposedly have a
>French-Canadian fur-trader ancestor
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>plew, v. (Obs.) Past tense of "plough".
>Jean-Joseph (2 points)
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>1 point: Linda, Ranjit
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>Ranjit: I like that.
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>Fran: I thought of this as a joke definition, and didn't use it.
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>plew, v. Shave with a straight razor.
>Nick
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>Judith: As in "plow"?
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>plew, n. (imit.) Among the Space Marines, the report of a laser rifle.
>Ranjit (2 points)
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>1 point: Nick, Eric
>Fran: I also thought of this one as a joke definition.
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>Nick: 1 point in honor of Halo: Reach release day. 
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>Eric:Excellent, one point.  "Tshoo" is the equivalent in the Terran 
>Patrol, due to their continuing reliance on the T-21 ion rifle. 
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>plew, adv. 1. Greatly. 2. Increasingly.
>Pierre (2 points)
>2 points: Jim
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>Ranjit: That's seeming plew plausible as I reread the other defs.
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>plew, adj. (Scots dial.) Deathly ill in appearance.
>David (2 points)
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>2 points: Eric
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>David:
>Knock-knock.
>Who's there?
>Plew.
>Plew who?
>No, Plew Harold; Plew Hugh is in his grave.
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>plew, n. A cliff-dwelling shore bird of the sub-Arctic.
>Linda (5 points)
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>1 point: David
>2 points: Nick, Judith
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>Nick: Although now I'm thinking I had heard this word, maybe in
>National Geographic or something, and I just didn't realize it until I
>saw this definition. It feels more correct than usual.
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>Ranjit: I hope that it's not a bird, because every funny word is a bird.  Or maybe I'm just 
bitter that people recognized the smew when I proposed
>it as a word.
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>Eric: Smew award.