Fw: [Fictionary] WANION!

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Sorry, typo--I recall hearing of a movement to shorten many burghs to burg but PIttsburgh got an exemption to keep the h. LInda

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From: David Randall <withywindle at earthlink.net>
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Subject: [Fictionary] WANION!
Date: Sun, 3 May 2015 20:19:58 -0400


Dear All, Hutch and the Dictionary both have 7 points. The Dictionary says it's Hutch's turn. Best, David *******Eric: Three ion/electron-related definitions, and I won't have any!*******RANJIT

wanion, n.  n atom or molecule that is weak and pale due to an excess or deficiency of electronic humors.

Correct Guess (2) = 2 POINTS

Jean-Joseph: Ha.  Ha ha.  Ha ha ha ha&hellip; Pierre: Hahaha!*******
PIERRE

wanion, n. An electronic device used to deplenerate a grammeter.

Correct Guess (2) + Linda (2) = 4 POINTS
Jean-Joseph: A retro/turboencabulator reference, if I'm not mistaken.  Nice.*******HUTCH

wanion, n. [Br. naut. slang.] Any small fish (as sardines) caught on-board and prepared as alternatives to the usual fare of salt beef. Best known for its appearance in the phrase "wi' a wanion" referring to something out of the ordinary and positive. (Origin unknown: Some sources claim that the origin of the term is "with onions"; while other sources state that onions would not have been standard fare on British ships.)

Jean-Joseph (2) + Melissa (2) + Ranjit (1) + Linda (1) = 7 POINTS Jean-Joseph: Very nice touch, putting in an etymology and then declaring that it's wrong.  Two points for boldness, and for the fact that I have nothing snarky to say about this one. Eric: Almost got points, would have been much more plausible had it stopped after the first sentence.*******
LINDA

wanion, adj.  A popular brand name of the early 1900's often seen on railway cars to describe steel pipes and other products made in PIttsburg, PA, and used in steam powered items, such as locomotives, and mill machinery.  Later, in WWI and WWII, Wanion described high-quality steel products of all types.

0 POINTS
Jean-Joseph: Pittsburgh*******
DICTIONARY

wanion, n. Curse; vengeance. From the phrase "in the waniand (mone)", in the time of the waning (moon), i.e., in an unlucky hour.

Eric (2) + Ranjit (2) + Pierre (2) + Melissa (1) = 7 POINTS
Eric: And so, once again, I must plump for the least-improbable. Two points.
Jean-Joseph: I prefer to inflict retribution when I am feeling lucky.*******
NICK

wanion, n. In social modeling, an individual who tends towards negative emotions, thus damaging the mood of their clique. Jean-Joseph (1) = 1 POINT

Jean-Joseph: I get depressed just thinking about the fact that there would be such a thing as "social modeling", but there probably is.  Which means that the existence of the field of study itself would alter the thing that it's studying by turning me into a wanion.  Assuming I even have a clique.  I might be considered a hermit, since the people I hang around with (you guys) I've never even met.  After all that, I guess I'd better give this my remaining one point.*******
MYS

wanion, n. The rent charged by the operators of poorhouses in Victorian England to their tenants.

Correct Guess (1) + Eric (1)+ Pierre (1) = 3 POINTS
Eric: Perhaps more plausible than the curse, but I can't give it more than one point because I HATE TO THINK THAT VICTORIAN POORHOUSES CHARGED RENT. One point.*******
ERIC

wanion, n. The wheeled sled used for warm-weather practice of natural track luge. Correct Guess (2) = 2 POINTS Jean-Joseph: So this is to street luge as mountain biking is to road biking?  I know a guy who does (or at least used to do) street luge.  He has no teeth, but I think it's unrelated -- he still had a few when I met him.
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