[Fictionary] Unourne Results

[Nicolas Ward]

A few days late, but not yet unourne, these results unourned and are no longer my unourne to bear.

Looks like the real def (old, feeble) didn't fool a lot of you. I'm amused that there were incorrect guesses as to the identities of fake definitions; we all seem to be able to emulate one another's styles! Fran's creepy twin and Ranjit's unpleasant motion tied, but Ranjit picked the real def, so he wins this round.

Ranjit: 4 + 2
Fran: 4
Elliott: 3 + 1
Linda: 3
Jim: 2 + 1
David: 2
Hutch: 2
Eric: 2
Jean-Joseph: 0 + 1
Pierre: 0 + 1

Take it away Ranjit!

Eric: Must be a good word, I liked so many of the defs.
Ranjit: I'm in an adjectival mood today.
Elliott: What a lovely set of defs!

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Jean-Joseph's: 0

unourne, n. An edible paste produced from boiled peyote root.

Linda: Yuck!

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Jim's: 2

unourne, adj. Refusing to follow the occupational or matrimonial wishes of one's parents.

Eric: "This boy unourne would dotingly enfold / The best-beloved son, his father's gold." -- Ben Jonson
Ranjit: 1 pt
Elliott: "Why can't you be more ourne, like your brother?"
Linda: A very important and somewhat modern concept. 1 point

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David's: 2

unourne, n. A scallop-rimmed rhyton. Extant from Etruria to Persia, but most common in archaeological sites from ca. 900 BCE to ca. 600 BCE in Epirus and Thrace.

Pierre: Un-urn. I misinterpreted this as a scallop-rimmed chiton at first.
Linda: Blinded me with Science--2 points. PS Besides, I liked "rhyton".

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Hutch's: 2

unourne, n. A yoke shaped for the human neck and shoulders.

David: 2
Elliott: In English we call it a "job". Two points for this simple, unexpected, and beautifully-phrased def!
Linda: I have a duck yoke--used for yoking ducks or geese to weed between rows of plantings.

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Elliot's: 3

unourne, n. 1. One who eats corn on the cob boustrophedon. 2. (transf.) An efficient opportunist of great appetite and no fixed principles.

Jim: Hi Elliott! Doesn't everyone eat theirs this way?
Eric: Lovely definition. One point. Also, eating corn that way is so wrong that I would go further than "no fixed principles".
Pierre: I eat corn on the cob boustrophedon, when I eat it. Sometimes one of the 
spikes in the ear is short in a way that messes up the boustrepsis.
Melissa: 2 just for the boustrophedon. This can't be it.
Linda: Can't recall boustrophedon--something on a racing bike?

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Linda's: 3

unourne, v. To come out of hibernation.

Fran: Verb point! 1 point.
Jean-Joseph: Two points.

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Wiktionary https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/unorn

(I picked the alternate spelling.)

unourne, adj. (Obs.) Old, worn out, feeble.

Jim: 1 point
Ranjit: 2 pts
Pierre: 1 point.
Jean-Joseph: One point.
Elliott: One point for being the only def that says "(Obs.)" to this very obsolete-looking word.
Linda: Probably IT.

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Eric's: 2

unourne, n. The formal announcement by a cleric that a member of the minor nobility has died without male issue, and that no relations within the third degree of consaguinity have been found. (If no relations declare themselves after this announcement has been repeated four months running, the real property of the decedent may be forfeit to the church.)

Fran: The church has lots of words i don't know. 2 points.
Jim: honorable mention
Linda: David Randall Award

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Ranjit's: 4

unourne, adj. Unpleasant to touch because of a vibration or twitching motion, rather than e.g. texture, stickiness, etc.

Jim: 2 points
David: 1
Elliott: Eeew! Like a purring gerbil.
Melissa: 1. I suspect Fran, though.
Linda: Yuck!

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Fran's: 4

unourne, n. The ghost of a twin that was reabsorbed by the mother's body and never born.

Eric: Oh my holy cow that is disturbing. Wait, wouldn't the baby's soul just get mushed back into the mother's? Two points.
Pierre: Two points, one for Lydia Fairchild and one for Karen Keegan, each of whom 
bore children whose mother was her unourne.
Elliott: What era was superstitious enough to believe in ghosts, but scientific enough to find out about reabsorbed twins? Or are they a superstition too?
Linda: Often what appears to be a mole is one of these undeveloped twins. I think an interesting explanation was put forth in the Golden Notebook:that we reincarnate in pairs and sometimes one of the twin souls chickens out. BTW, I have identical twin sons and they are still great friends in their 40's. And they are also great friends with their younger brother.

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Pierre's: 0

unourne, n. A game played on a square board (usually 9×9) by two people, in which a stone captures a stone of the other color by moving away from it.

Linda: Haven't seen this game.

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