[Fictionary] Flick your fleerish!

[Pierre Abbat]

Eric, I hope you're healthy enough, with no fleerish signs, to run the next 
round!

It's a variant, influenced by "flint", of a previous form "furison" or 
"furisine", which is from Low German or Dutch "vur-isen" or the like meaning 
"fire-iron". Another form of the word is "frizzen", which means exactly the 
same, except that it's specifically a gun part.

You could call the wheel on a lighter a fleerish, but the flint in a lighter is 
actually a material called ferrocerium.

Eric: I am very surprised there are so many nouns.  Folks, it's clearly an 
adjective!

Elliott: This word drew a diverse and unpredictable lot of defs --- good.  I 
had 
expected variations on flee-er-ish.  That prevents one of my usual 
narrowing-down strategies, which is to reject defs that are too similar to 
other defs in the same batch.  I may actually have to think here.

Linda (on the 1st):HI, Pierre, Good luck with the job interview!  We got our 
electricity (pole was down on road) back last night, but have coleman stoves, 
lanterns, flash and LED lights, and a generator for the well, fridges, and 
heat--it runs a few times a  day for a few hours, so you have to plan ahead 
adn have extra gas.  Lots of food stocked up, luckily.  Coastal RI was badly 
hit, but haven't heard from many friends there yet--we are a bit uphill and 
inland.  

The interview went well; hopefully I'll know the results in a week or two.

Pierre
---
fleerish, adj. (medical) (obsolete) Unhealthily variable.  First used of the 
pulse, later of the color and other characteristics of the urine.
by Eric. 6
Jim: 2 points
David: 2
Elliott: I like it!  Two points.

fleerish, adj. Direct and focused in personality. (From Middle Dutch "fleer", 
weathervane.)
by Nick. 4
Jim: 1 point
Ranjit: Weathervane?  That sounds like the opposite of "direct and focused."
That makes no sense.  Therefore I award you two points.
David: 1
Elliott: A weathervane-like personality would be unfocused and easily 
changeable, 
wouldn't it?

fleerish, n. Trousers decorated on the seat with fake eyes to deceive 
predators.
by Elliott. 4
Jim: I would believe this as a Far Side cartoon. I would believe it as an 
Elliott entry. I would not believe it as an actual definition.
Ranjit: 1 points.
Eric: Two points BECAUSE I LOVE THE IDEA!  Next time someone gets angry at 
me I am totally bending over to show them my fleerishes.
Linda: one point
Elliott: In the 1950s, the same kind of people would reverse the body of their 
car to put the tailfins in front and the grille in back, and add a WWII-surplus 
smoke machine to spritz an opaque cloud while the intended prey made its 
getaway.

fleerish, n. (Cumberland dial.) - a stone hut on the moors in common use by all 
local shepherds
by David. 2
Linda: 2 points
Elliott: Do they have moors in Cumberland?  Damned if I know.

fleerish, adj. Perfectly clear.
by Linda. 2
Eric: I can't believe Pierre would choose something so straighforward, but 
still. One point.
Elliott: Sounds like a real def trying to make itself very small in order to 
be overlooked.  One point.

fleerish, n. A piece of steel used to strike flint to start a fire.
the truth. 0

fleerish, n. The "hundred year" soup of rural Scotland.
by Ranjit. 0
Linda: HM
Elliott: No points, but a Zagat rating.

fleerish, n. (Scot.) A bygone flourish.
by Jean-Joseph. 0
-- 
La sal en el mar es más que en la sangre.
Le sel dans la mer est plus que dans le sang.