[Fictionary] Skirret Ballot at last!

[lindafowens at netzero.com]

Skirret Ballot for Fictionary  October 2010  2's & 1's due Tues, Oct 19
1)	Skirret, n.  The feeling inside you when your boss has called, has put you on hold for 15 minutes (and counting), and you need to visit the bathroom.  “Waiting to learn whether he would be Pope, Cardinal Gonçalves was skirret within his warm, red, robes.”
2)	Skirret: [from Latin ‘scireteum’] (n) – 1) a bronze ring attached to a Roman Legionary soldier’s “Cingulum”, or baldric, from which the “gladius”, or small-sword, is suspended.  2) A crucial but often unnoticed part.  1) “Excavation of the Conbustica Fort in northern Bulgaria had unearthed a treasure trove of Roman military artifacts; gladii, scuta, segmentatae, and even cingula, some with their sciretea still attached.” 2) “Phil is a real skirret at this company; he never gets employee-of-the-month, but the place would fall apart without him.”
3)	Skirret (v).  The behavior of a squirrel looking for food.  “We used to sit around and watch the little creatures skirret around the farmyard.”
4)	Skirret, n.  A plant, the water parsnip, Sium sisarum, native to Asia and cultivated for its esculent tuberous root, which sometimes resembles the parsnip in flavor.  “We weren’t sure if the skirret root we found was edible or poisonous, but the locals assured us that they served it with stew meat and potatoes at least once a week.”
5)	Skirret, v.  (Computer Science)  In a functional programming language, to interpolate a function with a monad such that a polymorphic type system is bound to the function’s scope.  “Example: Having defined a Haskell state monad a as SM (S-> (a, S)), we can skirret the Prelude function “take” to create a constrained function to operate only on the defined domain.”
6)	Skirret, v.  To nick the tendon of a horse so as to cause lameness.  “Having practiced his technique on sheep, he tried to skirret the horse, but the horse kicked him and ran away.”
7)	Skirret: (n) the swinging motion of tassels and other decorations on a dancer’s costume, (v) to move in such a way.  “It’s not the skirt, it’s the skirret.” –Women’s Wear Daily, 1955.
8)	Skirret-n.-an oceanic islet only large enough to allow one seal to lie on it.  “Skirret,” you called me, curled by my side;/ “Little seal,” I said; then, “Bride!” --George Mackay Brown, “Wedding Night.”
9)	Skirret, n. A decorative feather used as part of a hat or cloak.  “The wind left his skirrets askew.”
10)	Skirret-v.i.-to be pushed up from the earth.  Skerrit-n.-a stone which has been pushed up from the earth, gen. in a farmed field.   “Lugged ‘nother ‘undredweight of skirret outer north field t’die.  Granther allus sid they’d slow up one die.  Oy niver thort it’d tike sixty years,” John Throckmorton, Tales from the North Counties, 1896.
11)	Skirret—1. (n.) The radius around a swordsman inside of which his sword is no defence.  2) (v.t.) To get within the skirret of.  1822 Hartley _A Country Living_: “Lieutenant Marbury…waved his cutlass unsteadily at no body in particular, which occasioned some contrived fright amongst the younger ladies until at last he was skirreted by Mrs. Marbury, and allowed himself to be disarmed.”
12)	Skirret:  [Australian slang]  A small amount of money.  “I haven’t a skirret; I’m stone motherless.” From How to Speak Australian.


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