[Fictionary] ORRA commentary from the voting assembly

[Fran Poodry]

5 points:

orra - det., pron., adj., adv. - (Ireland) much, many; (Scotland) few;
rare, rarely

(Ranjit)

2 points from David: "2 points, and the Samuel Johnson Award for
Anglo-Saxon Attitudes"

1 point from Andrew

1 point from Matt

1 point from Jean-Joseph "Well, wouldn't that be inconvenient?  But
something needs to get my other one point, so this is it."

0 points from Nick: "I wonder how many instances of complete opposite
senses there are, separated regionally?"

0 points from Pierre: "Reminds me of the truth which is conventionally
regarded as false, which is also the falsehood conventionally regarded as
true. Which means the Australian orra must have something to do with paper
money."

0 points from Jim: "So much sociology and/or history tied up in one tiny
definition... yet I don't believe it."

0 points from Elliott: "Daring, very daring.  I'll give it the
Distinguished Flying Cross, but I'm out of points."


4 points:

orra - n. - Territory submerged in the rest of the world when seawater is
displaced for land reclamation.

(Elliott)

1 point from Ranjit: "1 point for blaming the Dutch for New Jersey's
eroding beaches"

2 points from Amelia

1 point for correct guess

0 points from Nick "Would this even be measurable?"

0 points from Jean-Joseph: "Ah, I remember the Orra War between Bangladesh
and the Netherlands..."


2 points:

orra - adj. -  A brownish, dark yellow color.

(Amelia)

1 point from Nick: "I suspect there's another word for this (puce?) but
sure, 1 point."

1 point from Hutch

0 points from Jean-Joseph: "Kinda like ochre?"


0 points:

orra - n. - A large water container used by ancient Illyrian people.

(Pierre)

0 points from Nick: "Some have greatness thrust upon them."

0 points from Jean-Joseph: "This either sounds familiar, or else it sounds
inspired by some crossword-puzzle word."


0 points:

orra - interj. - "By all the gods!" [(fr. Ugr.) orale rea: lit. on the
heads of the gods be it]

(Hutch)

0 points from Pierre: "I know there's a five-letter word (isten) for "god",
but I have a hard time believing a five-letter word for "the heads of the
gods". ("rea" is Old Hungarian for "on"; its Modern Hungarian descendant is
"-re" or "-ra".)"

0 points from Jim: "Not sure what Ugr is... Uighur??"

0 points from Jean-Joseph: "I can't even guess what that source language
would be."


0 points:

ORRA - n. - acronym for Our Righteous Ritual Acts, a pseudo-religious
organization based in Portland, OR.   Some detractors call it ORegon's
RAdicals.  Tenets are not as important as eating food together, mostly
fresh produce, and circle and spiral dancing.

(Linda)

0 points from David: "Honorable Mention, Princeton Dining Club, Sublimation
Effect."

0 points from Nick: "Now I want another season of Portlandia!"

0 points from Amelia: "The acronym one sounds like something Elliott would
write..."

0 points from Jim: "ERIFF award!"

0 points from Jean-Joseph: "Buncha damn hippies..."


9 points and the actual definition:

orra - adj. - not matched; odd

(The Oxford English Reference Dictionary)

2 points from Andrew

2 points from Matt

2 points from Nick :"I like the idea of this word. 2 points"

2 points from Jean-Joseph "So pedestrian, and therefore suspiciously
likely.  Two points."

1 point from Elliott: "Somehow, this sounds like the kind of terse and
neutrally plausible def that roundmeisters like to pick.  One point."

0 points from Jim: "Tempting. This gets my honorable mention."


7 points:

orra - n. -  A member of the Osteoglossidae family of freshwater fish
native to Indonesia and Indochina. See SCLEROPAGES AUREUS.

(Andrew)

2 points for correct guess

1 point from Jim

2 points from Pierre

2 points from Linda

0 points from Nick: "I definitely do not know fish names"

0 points from Jean-Joseph: "Random fish?  Nah."


4 points:

orra - n. - The orbital cloud of dust around a star that eventually forms
into planets.

(Matt)

2 points for correct guess

2 points from Jim "2 points. I can see astronomers co-opting and corrupting
"aura" in this way."

0 points from Nick: "Hmm, could be same root as orrery, but I think I would
have heard of it."

0 points from Amelia: "The star dust cloud one is referring to a
Protoplanetary disk, so that's not it"

0 points from Jean-Joseph: "I know this word.  But it isn't "orra", it's
"proplyd""

0 points from Elliott: "I like the idea, but the resemblance to ``orrery''
makes me suspicious."


4 points:

orra - n. - A foul in curling which occurs when the thrower releases the
stone after passing the hog line.

(Nick)

2 points from Ranjit: "2 points for topical and for "hog line""

2 points for correct guess

0 points from Jim: "Going for topicality, I presume.  I like Charles
Danforth's suggestion that curling and figure skating could both be
improved if they took place at the same time on the same ice."

0 points from Jean-Joseph: "I would think that if this were real, somebody
would have heard it on TV this week.  Unless maybe Olympians are good
enough to never do this."


5 points:

orra - n. - A device for stripping thorns from rose stems.

(Jean-Joseph) "Mine.  I wonder if there is such a thing, might be useful."

1 point from Linda

2 points for correct guess

2 points from Elliott "Lovely idea.  Two points!"

0 points from Nick: "Tempting, but we had so many tools a few rounds back
I'm inclined to disbelieve."


5 points:

orra - n. - A cold east or northeast Moroccan wind that blows down from the
Anti-Atlas Mountains in spring and early summer.

(Jim)

1 point from David: "1 point, and the Anti-Santa-Ana-Ain't-It? Award"

1 point from Amelia

1 point from Pierre

2 points from Hutch

0 points from Nick: "Isn't this a sirocco?"

0 points from Jean-Joseph: "The flip side of a scirocco or something?"
0 points from Elliott: "*Anti*-Atlas Mountains?  Are they mountains that
are too big to fit in an atlas?"

-- 
Fran Poodry
Physics Educational Technology Specialist
Vernier Software and Technology
AMTA Past President 2013-2014
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