[Fictionary] travisher results and Possible New Word!

[lindafowens at netzero.com]

Yikes! I have a number of "snakes" in my possession, or rather scattered about the porch for future projects.  One has been twisted into a wreath, as yet unadorned.  I have seen such walking sticks, but not lately.  Most of the vines here in Exeter, RI, are bittersweet, but at the Narragansett house they might have been grapevine.  AS for Possible New Words, does anyone know  1) Analemma, 2) Coof, or 3) Flam?  Linda

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From: fictioneric at cluemail.com
To: fictionary at swarpa.net
Subject: [Fictionary] travisher results
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 09:55:12 -0400

It's a runaway win for Linda, and her twisted-branch walking stick!

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Real def is "a convex spokeshave used to shape the buttock hollows in 
the seat of a wooden chair." The wording is mine, since I couldn't 
find it in a dictionary, but here's one description, with pictures,
    http://toolmonger.com/2010/07/16/the-chairmakers-travisher/
of the travisher (and the scorp).

Using the word "buttock" in my wording seems to have garnered the 
real def a few extra points. Next time: no buttocks.

1 Linda, 1 Judith, 2 Pierre, 2 Nora, 1 Elliott.

Linda: "and one point for the seat maker for using words like 
'spokeshave' and 'buttock hollows."

Judith: "1 point, because I like the idea."

Nora: "2 votes! buttocks definitions win in my book!"

Elliott "How *do* they do that, anyway?  One point."

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Nick:
travisher, n.  1. One who exaggerates or invents facts.  2. A "yellow
     journalist".  Am. Eng. ca. 1897.

1 Jim, 1 total.

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David:
travisher, n. (Australian dial.) Roadkill.

1 Nora, 1 total.

Nora: "1 vote. I guess dead animals are second to butts in my scheme 
of things!"

Jean-Joseph: "Too soon for more Strine."
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Ranjit:
travisher, n.  A pressure-sealed margin on a paper or plastic package.
     Named for Jessup K. Travisher (1910-1977), the manufacturing
     engineer who pioneered the process at Domino Sugar Co., New York.

2 David, 2 Linda, 4 total

David: "2 points, and admiration."

Hutch: "Boring! Even if it's real it shouldn't be."

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Hutch:
travisher, n.  One who lies by telling an incomplete truth; more
     generally, a highly convincing liar.

2 Ranjit, 2 total.

Ranjit: "2 points for self-reference (and if i'm wrong, i get 2 points!)"

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Jean-Joseph:
travisher, n.  A counterfeiter who hand-paints currency, stamps, etc.

1 Pierre, 1 total.

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Pierre:
travisher, n.  A farmer who sells young birds for other farmers to raise
     to maturity.

2 Jim, 1 Hutch, 1 Jean-Joseph, 2 for correct choice, 6 total.

Jean-Joseph: "My girlfriend likes this better than the spokeshave, so 
it gets one point."

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Linda:
travisher, n.  A cane or walking stick made from a "snake", or ingrown
     set of twisted branches or vines.  Made popular by Sir William
     Travisher (1813-1888) of Kent, England.

2 Hutch, 2 Jean-Joseph, 2 Judith, 2 Elliott, 1 David, 1 Ranjit, 1 for 
correct choice, 11 total.

Hutch: "I'm still doubtful, but I DO like it: 2 points"

Jean-Joseph: "Sounds just fine, two points."

Judith: "2 points, because I owned one of those in my youth, but I 
didn't have a special name for it."

Ranjit: "1 point for eponymy"

Elliott: "I like it!  Two points."

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Over to you, Linda.

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-- Eric   |   fictioneric at cluemail.com


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