[Fictionary] mobby ballot

[fictioneric at cluemail.com]

Fictioneers --

Below, this word's ballot.  Please return your one- and two-point 
votes by close of business next MONDAY, 31 October.  That's 
Halloween.  Enjoy!


mobby, n.  (Blue Ridge dial.) A domesticated skunk.

mobby, adj. (usu. pejorative) Lower class.

mobby, n.  (South Africa) a mobile phone.

mobby, n.  A drink brewed from pressed sweet potatoes.

mobby, n.  A nonexistent word placed in a dictionary to
     facilitate detection of plagiarism.

mobby, n.  A braided horsehair wick used by beekeepers to
     extract bumble from a bumblecomb.

mobby, n.  A bicycle messenger in Nigeria, using a bicycle with
     a large built-in trunk to carry things.

mobby, n.  A stationary steam-powered winch used in drag-logging
     (ca. 1880).

mobby, adj.  Congested, as a venue filled with people.

mobby, n.  A wad of straw soaked in poisoned molasses or honey
     that is placed where it will be found by vermin.

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