[Fictionary] Woopie: all is revealed!

[Nora Munoz]

And the winner is-----Hutch, with 5 points. He had 4 points like Ranjit,
but he also guessed the dictionary definition, putting him over the top!
Woohoo! You are the new Fictionary Maestro, Hutch!


woopie, n. 1) The hollow in a swamp formed by an alligator regularly using
the same spot as a hunting lair 2) The slightly raised hummock in a swamp,
holding an alligator nest

By Hutch: 5 points; 4 points plus 1 for guessing the dictionary


Ranjit: 2 alligator points

Jean-Joseph: Do really they build things like beaver lodges?  I'm giving
this the hairy eyeball because the two definitions seem so opposite to one
another.

David: 1 point

Pierre: 1 point

Hutch: Mine! I asked all my co-workers to suggest possibilities. Somebody
came up with something to do with "mudpies" (a woopie is a very large
mudpie?). Somebody else suggested that it have something to do with
"alligators". Apparently some body on some reality show about swamps shouts
something like "woopie" when he is about to kill/capture/see (???) an
alligator. The fictionition above was the result of combining mudpies and
alligators.





woopie, n. A pastry served at an engagement party

By Pierre



Hutch: a "woo pie"? That's where I started going at first.





woopie, n. A really big goof

By Linda



Hutch: a "whoopsie"?





woopie, n. An affluent retiree

>From Oxford Dictionary: 2 points

Definition: An affluent retired person able to pursue an active lifestyle;
from the acronym of Well-Off Older Person



Jean-Joseph: One points.

Hutch: Although I have no idea why there would be a particular name for
this ... or where it might be useful ... I have eliminated the rest of the
possibilities. 1 point

Jean-Joseph general comment: (Aha!  Having made my guess, Google suggests
that it's analagous to "yuppie", but rather than "young urban
professional", it's "well off older person".)




woopie, n. A badly constructed still

By David: 2 points



Jean-Joseph: Two point.

Pierre: It's badly constructed, but it's standing still. Does this have
anything to do with a secret yet?

Hutch: Are there names for poorly built ... anything else? (Well, I suppose
there's "lemon" for cars.) I just have my doubts about this being something
that anyone would bother to name.





woopie, n. A straight channel dug into a marshy area

By Jean-Joseph: 1 point for guessing the dictionary



Pierre: Two wetland defs. Hmm.

Hutch: Too close to my own fictionition.





woopie, n.  A wild throw in the game of mumblety-peg

By Ranjit: 4 points



Jean-Joseph: I picture mumblety-peg operating in a way that this wouldn't
make sense, but it could well be that my sheltered upbringing has given me
an erroneous impression of mumblety-peg, and this might be right.  But I'll
still guess not.

David: 2 points

Pierre: Which is greater, mumblety-peg or pegty-mumble?

Hutch: I like this! I don't remember there being names for particularly
good or bad throws in mumblety-peg, but I also haven't played mumblety-peg
for 45 years or so. 2 points





woopie, n. Gradual sharping or flatting caused by accumulation of ice
crystals from the breath in the bore of a brass instrument played in cold
weather

By Elliot: 3 points



Ranjit: 1 frozen tuba point

Pierre: 2 points

Jean-Joseph: Nice.  It's this kind of creativity that makes this game fun.
Huzzah!  Kudos!  No points, of course, but lots of huzzah and barrel of
kudos.

Hutch: As a former trombone (and tuba) player, I know that brass
instruments do go sharp when it's cold. However, while you are actually
playing them, they stay warm. Warm enough, at any rate, to prevent ice
crystals sufficient to change pitch from forming in the bore. Not warm
enough to prevent the simple contraction with the temperature.





woopie, n. A crane-like bird native to the Congo delta, known for its
boisterous warning call

By Nicholas



Pierre: WHOOPING

Hutch: Pretty sure that someone was thinking of the "hoopoe"



Thanks for playing the WOOPIE round with me. Take it away, Hutch!


Best regards,

Nora
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