[Fictionary] A word! A word!

[David Randall]

Dear All,

There not only should be a Hobday in the sense I gave it but also it should be the title of a comic by Neil Gaiman, or Alan Moore. Sadly, they never listen to me.

For a first attempt: does anyone know

DREE

?

I'll give it a few days, for a declaration of dree'ful knowledge to declare itself.

Hobnobbingly yours, David

On Oct 22, 2014, at 10:49 AM, Fran Poodry <fpoodry at gmail.com> wrote:

> David Randall wins!
> 
> 
> 2 points total:
> hobday - n.  An extra 12-hour period inserted every second year in the Revised Druidic Calendar.
> (Jean-Joseph)
> 2, Elliott “I like the idea of chopping up Leap Year into smaller units.  In the limit, you could just tune your clock to run slow by 1/(4*365)”
> “Really need to get those Druids on UTC.”, Nick
> “A Leap HALF Day??????”, Hutch
> 
> 4 points total:
> hobday - n. The day you clean out the ashes from the wood-stove or fireplace.  Usually Saturday morning.
> (Linda)
> 2, correct guess
> 1, David Randall
> 1, Ranjit
> “I wonder, why Saturday?”, Nick
> “HOB + DAY.  Straightforward.”, Elliott
> 
> 10 points total:
> hobday - n. (Northamptonshire dial.) - 1) All Hallow's Eve; 2) any night (e.g, the summer solstice) when unnatural spirits are supposed to roam freely
> (David Randall)
> 2, Nick “on ‘Old Hob’ grounds.”
> 2, Ellen
> 2, correct guess
> 2, Pierre
> 2, Hutch “The spirits that roam are said to be quite natural, simply not of our ordinary nature.”
> “I believe this is the sort of thing the phrase ‘too on the nose’ exists for.”, Jim
> “HOB(goblin) + DAY.”, Elliott
> 
> 2 points total:
> hobday - n.  The occurrence on a Sunday of what would otherwise be a holiday from work.
> (Elliott)
> 1, Jim “though I tried to avoid all the 'Day' definitions”
> 1, Jean-Joseph
> “Isn't Sunday usually an off day?”, Nick
> “Nowadays, they give you the Monday to make up for it.”, Elliott
> 
> 11 points total:
> hobday - v.  Operate on (a horse) to improve its breathing by pinning back the vocal fold in the larynx (Named after Sir Frederick T. G. Hobday (1869–1939), the British veterinary surgeon who introduced the technique.)
> (www.oxforddictionaries.com)
> 1, David Van Stone
> 2, Linda
> 2, Jim
> 2, David Randall “ay-yiy-yiy”
> 1, Eric, “Most Likely To Be By Elliott award. One point, despite that.”
> 1, Pierre
> 1, Hutch “I hate eponyms, but I'm damned if I can believe in any of the other fictionitions!!!”
> 1, Josh
> “Hmmm.  Vocal folds come in pairs, while the definition says ``the vocal fold''; also, pinning them open could let food, drink, nasal mucus, etc. into the lungs along with the air.  I don't think a horse owner would want to risk that.”, Elliott
> “Verb! Good avoidance of day def.”, Nick
> 
> 4 points total:
> hobday - n.   A rainy day spent indoors.
> (Josh)
> 1, Nick “because I like the idea of it. Sounds relaxing”
> 2, Eric
> 1, correct guess
> “The less fun way to spend a rainy day.”, Elliott
> 
> 8 points total:
> hobday - n.  One who purposely affects an accent to appear foreign.
> (Jim)
> 2, correct guess
> 2, Ranjit “for not being a day or a hob”
> 2, Jean-Joseph
> 2, Josh
> “Like that Rockefeller ‘heir’?”, Nick
> “The thing needs a name, but I just can't picture that name being ‘hobday’.”, Elliott
> 
> 4 points total:
> hobday - n.  1. A group of forced laborers in medieval Spain. 2. The system of forced labor in medieval Spain.
> (Pierre)
> 2, David Van Stone
> 1, Linda
> 1, correct guess
> “I call shenanigans on the definition ‘in Spain’ since it is in no way a word close to Spanish, medieval or otherwise”, Ellen
> “Is it ‘hobday is’ or ‘hobday are’?”, Nick
> “Doesn't really sound Spanish to me…”, Jim
> “Spanish, with a b-d cluster in the middle?  Molybdenum, maybe, but ... hobday?”, Elliott
> 
> 2 points total:
> hobday - n.  A decorative hob, usually scalloped and perforated with radial or whorled designs; originally the solid burner cover for a cast-iron stove was referred to as a "hobnight"; the decorative "hobday" was intended to be used for cooking during the day; it was abandoned almost immediately when it was discovered to provide considerably worse heat transfer than the solid "hobnight", which in time dropped the last syllable to become "hob".
> (Hutch)
> 1, Ellen
> 1, correct guess
> Honorable mention, Linda
> “Love the overwrought explanation.”, Nick
> “Very imaginative.”, Elliott
> 
> no points:
> hobday - v.  To procrastinate on household cleaning.
> (Nick)
> “Although I love this one ;-) I tend do it the other way around, get quite overzealous in cleaning when there is something weighing on me. The added benefit is that, strangely, I seem to work through things while cleaning.”, Ellen
> “It just doesn't sound verby to me.”, Elliott
> 
> 1 point total:
> hobday - n.  A deadline which is chosen for convenience rather than for the requirements of the project. "I'll be on vacation next week, so let's set a hobday for the following Monday."
> (Ranjit)
> 1, Elliott “Semi-plausible, since it's actually a kind of day, and the thing needs a name.”
> “Perhaps my experience is different, but would that we ever could select a deadline chosen for some kind of convenience.”, Ellen
> “I have a lot of hobdays at work then. :oD”, Nick
> 
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> 
> -- 
> Fran Poodry
> Physics Educational Technology Specialist
> Vernier Software and Technology

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