[Fictionary] Results for Skirret! Forgot Subject on last transmission, sorry.

[lindafowens at netzero.com]

Skirret Ballot RESULTS for Fictionary		October 24, 2010
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.”  Eric= 0, sorry .  Elliott: Daring, but too blatant.
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.”  Larry=1 from David R.  Elliott: I think Latin <sc> before <i> comes into English as <s>, as in “science”, scissors”, “scintillate”. Also, where would the extra <r> come from?  No points, but the Corona Civica.  Hutch: Very tempting!  Give it imaginary tiebreaker point.
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.” Judith+0, sorry &#61516;. Pierre: Scurry.  Elliott: Sounds like what squirrels do, but it’s too close to “scurry”, “scamper”, and “scoot.”
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.” Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary, Second Edition, Deluxe = 2.  Jim, 1; Nicolas, 1. Pierre: Water parsnip again.  Are you skirret with our own eutely?  Elliott: “Skirret” sounds much too light for an ungainly root vegetable.  Hutch: The use of “esculent” makes this tempting, but it’s a bit obscure to be used in a standard definition. Nicholas: 1 point for trastiness.
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.” Jacob+0, sorry &#61516;.  Jacob: This was mine; in case it’s not obvious, nothing in the definition or example makes sense, although snippets of both could conceivably make sense independently.  Sadly, my understanding of functional programming is such that this doesn’t read particularly differently (to me) from actual functional programming documentation.  Linda: Some of the symbols did not make it through various computers or servers unscathed, alas, although some did.  Pierre: I program, and I have no idea what this means.  But then I don’t speak Haskell.  Elliott: Doesn’t sound like a CS word unless it’s someone’s name.  Maybe Skirret was Schoenfinkel’s arch-rival.  Hutch: Hunh???  Ranjit: Universe of Discourse award!
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.” Pierre+1; Eric, 1.  Pierre: Does anyone recognize the horse?  Linda: Eek! I would never do such a thing nor use such a word!  Elliott: Ouch! Is this different from hamstringing?  Hutch: Wouldn’t this be “hamstring?”
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.  Ranjit,=1; 1 from Eric.  Jacob: I like this a lot, although I think (assuming it’s fake) that the example would be more believable with an earlier date.  Elliott: Very nice quote.  Hutch: Back to kilts, eh?  In descriptions of kilts this is referred to (rather unimaginatively) as “swing”, says the kilt-wearer.
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.”  David R=3; 2 from Eric, 1 from Ranjit.  Jacolb: If this is a fake, the example is terrific.  Eric: Two points.  Both for the LOVELY, lovely sentence.  Elliott: Awww, that’s so sweet!  And it exploits the North Sea connotation of [sk].  Wish I had another point, but you’ll have to settle for me batting my eyelashes at you instead.  Hutch:  This makes me think of a Hashing song: (to the tune of “Tie Me Kangaroo Down”)  Beastiality’s best, boys!/ Beastiality’s best (f* a wallaby)/ Beastiality’s best, boys! /Beastiality’s best!  Ranjit: Bride?
9)	Skirret, n. A decorative feather used as part of a hat or cloak.  “The wind left his skirrets askew.”  Nicolas=4; Pierre, 2; Hutch, 1, plus correct guess of 1
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.  Hutch=5; Jacob, 1; Elliott, 2; Ranjit, 2.  Another great example; love the dialect.  Elliott:  Two points, plus the Thomas Hardy Award “and” the David Randall Award.
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.”  Elliott+7; Pierre, 1; Hutch, 2; Nicolas, 2; David R, 2.  Linda: Yesterday, at my grandson Snowdon’s 5th birthday party, his older sister Colwynne, 8, stood inside her “Circle of Doom” (hula hoop) and threatened to lob the other kids with either a small nerf football or a balloon.  My husband David the Scoutmaster says the Cubmaster calls the area around a Cub Scout with a knife the “Circle of Blood.”  Hutch: Something about this quote makes this the winner in my book; I suspect it’s not the true definition, but the quote makes it worth 2 points.  Nicolas: 2 points for detail.
12)	Skirret:  [Australian slang]  A small amount of money.  “I haven’t a skirret; I’m stone motherless.” From How to Speak Australian.  Dummy=4; Jacob, 2; Jim, 2.  Linda: I can seldom resist using a dummy def, so this is it.  The real word is skerrick, and the real book is G’Day, Teach Yourself Australian, by Colin Bowles, a hilarious book, if a bit rough, on what words and behavior to avoid when you visit Oz.  For instance, never pull the conveniently and tantalizingly hanging rope or you will have to “shout for the bar” (treat everyone).  I sang at the Sydney Opera House in 1995 with my chorus.  Loved the possums at the Zoo, snorkeled in the Great Barrier Reef, and came back with a large didgeridoo and tons of native books.  Jacob: The most believable one to me.  Hutch: This definition is believable; I just don’t.
13)	General Comments.  Elliott: (After googling it) Oh, pooh, it’s the root vegetable after all. There is another meaning, too: “The skirret is an implement which acts on a center pin, whence a line is drawn to mark out the ground plan of the intended structure” Seems to be a Masonic thing.  Nice round!  Jim: Several of these entries fell to the Know Thy Judge principle. Well, I don’t technically know Linda, but I’ve been playing Fictionary long enough to decide that some of these are completely out of character for her to have come up with….  Linda: If I left out your comments by mistake, please send them on again to the group!
OH, THE WINNER IS ELLIOTT WITH 7 POINTS!  Congratulations!  


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