[Fictionary] Selcouth Results

[Jim Moskowitz]

I think I may be able to break the tie by doing a recount of the 
votes: I appear to actually have 5  ( = 2 + 2 + 1 + 0).  Of course, 
Wiktionary has 6, but I believe it's ineligible to run the next 
round...

I'll work on a word by the weekend.


At 11:04 AM -0400 9/16/13, Nicolas Ward wrote:
>Sorry all. Time is flying as the due date approaches and I let this
>fall off my list. We have a 3-way tie between Jim, Elliott, and Eric!
>
>Jim 4
>Elliott 4
>Eric 4
>Ranjit 3
>Jean-Joseph 3
>Hutch 2
>David 2
>Pierre 1
>Linda 0
>
>Since Jim wins the Elliott Moreton Decoy Award by fooling Eric with
>his literal decoy def, I think that gives Jim a slight edge to run the
>next round. Thoughts?
>
>It seems selcouth did not fool a number of you, as we ended up with
>pretty evenly spread points.
>
>David: "I did once know what Selcouth meant, long enough to put it in
>Clovermead as the name of an imaginary town. Can't for the life of me
>remember what it means, though."
>Hutch: "Nothing seems particularly believable :-( Time for a WAG"
>
>----
>
>Linda (0 + 0)
>
>selcouth, n. A type of detective who is quite slovenly, like the late,
>great Alexander Selcouth.
>
>Hutch: "uncouth?"
>Elliott: "Wasn't he the detective who was marooned on the Island of
>Juan Fernandez?"
>
>--
>
>Wiktionary
>
>selcouth, adj. 1. Strange or unfamiliar. 2. Marvelous or wondrous.
>
>David 2
>Hutch 2 "Somehow I *do* like this as an adjective."
>Eric 2 "Reminiscent of 'unco'. But two points anyway."
>
>Elliott: "Seems very plausible; I can believe that there would be an
>OE word seld-cuuth 'rarely known' (sorry, can't type macrons or
>thorns), so I won't waste a vote on it. Apologies to you if I'm wrong
>and you made it up."
>
>Elliott after: "Aha! Yep, Bosworth and Toller
>(http://lexicon.ff.cuni.cz/texts/oe_bosworthtoller_about.html)
>confirms seld-cuuth (still no macrons or thorns here). It's a lovely
>word and deserves wider use. 'Could it be, Mr. Spock, that some
>selcouth force has seized our vessel?'"
>
>--
>
>Ranjit (3 + 0)
>
>selcouth, n. A corded velveteen fabric distinguished from corduroy in
>that the cords run from bottom to top rather than top to bottom.
>
>Elliot 2 "Are cords in corduroy *signed*? I had no idea. Inspired by SILK?"
>Jim 1
>
>Hutch: "I'm pretty sure that corduroy doesn't have any 
>'directionality' to it?"
>Pierre: "Turnabout is fair play."
>
>--
>
>David (0 + 2)
>
>selcouth, adj. Well-mannered.
>
>Hutch: "The opposite of 'uncouth'?"
>Elliott: "Inspired by COUTH?"
>Eric: "Couth. So even if it's right, I can't vote for it."
>
>--
>
>Eric (2 + 2)
>
>selcouth, n. A dark, still, circular, forest pool, permitting entry to
>the Fairy realm. May only permit entry at certain times or under
>certain conditions.
>
>Linda 1
>David 1
>
>Hutch: "I suspect that someone is thinking of 'selkie'."
>Elliott: "Hmmm. Maybe inspired by SILKIE? But they aren't fairies, and
>don't hang out in forests."
>
>--
>
>Jim (4 + 0)
>
>selcouth, n. A dummy hunter, placed in plain view of game animals to
>divert them to where an actual hunter is hiding.
>
>Ranjit 2
>Pierre 2
>Elliott 1 "I thought that was called a 'son'. One point just in case."
>
>Hutch: "Good idea, but somehow I'm doubtful that there's a word for this."
>Eric: "That's Elliott's, right?"
>
>--
>
>Elliott (4 + 0)
>
>selcouth, adj. Visibly desperate to be thought indifferent to the
>opinion of others.
>
>Linda 2
>Ranjit 1
>Eric 1 "No, no, that's spelt 'adolescent'. One point."
>
>Hutch: "*LOL*"
>Elliott: "I kept going back and forth between 'opinion' and 'opinions'
>on this one. 'Opinion' seems slightly better."
>
>--
>
>Pierre (1 + 0)
>
>selcouth, n. In medieval England, the appointed time for a lord to
>have a meal and a night's lodging at the home of one of his vassals.
>
>Hutch 1 "I'm doubtful, but I've thrown everything else out."
>
>--
>
>Jean-Joseph (3 + 0)
>
>selcouth, n. A lagoon located beyond a coastline, flanked by lateral
>sandbars deposited at the mouth of a river.
>
>Jim 2
>Pierre 1
>
>Hutch: "Pretty sure this is referred to as a "sound""