[Fictionary] PIGWIDGEON results!

[eLLioTT morEton]

Dear Fictionary,

Pierre's stone-lifter edges out Josh's iron wedge and Jean-Joseph's fish 
to capture the laurels this time.

I had expected some defs involving widgeons (a kind of duck), but didn't 
get any.  Several of yall, being better-read than I, knew something about 
this word that I did not:

Linda:  Hmm, I saw this word somewhere --could it have been in an old Natl 
Geog?

Hutch:  When eLLioTT posted this word, I was thinking it sounded familiar. 
But when I saw the ballot, I remembered why I thought it familiiar. ... I 
think! ... Unless I'm mistooken, "Pigwidgeon" was the name of one of the 
owls that delivered messages to Harry Potter's Gryffindor housemates at 
Hogwart's. We shall see ...

Jean-Joseph:  Huh.  I thought it sounded familiar.  It's apparently also 
the name of Ron Weasley's first pet owl.

Haul it away, Pierre!

Regards,
em

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pigwidgeon (v.t.)  To force an oversized joint of meat into a pot or 
kettle.

JACOB 2 = Ranjit 2

Hutch:  Very tempting! Had I not decided it had to be something fairy, I 
coulda gone here. Give this one an imaginary tie-breaker vote.

Ranjit:  2 points for the pig-wedging
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pigwidgeon (n.)  In Welsh lore, a spirit of benevolent chaos which visits 
farms and stirs up animals and objects.  Visits result in lost items being 
found, recovery of relationships gone bad, and refreshing change.

FRAN 2 = Linda 2 + Hutch 1 + correct guess 1

Linda:  Two points for the Welsh benevolent spirit if it cleans up some of 
my clutter.

Hutch:  Due to the link to Harry Potter, I'm voting for the fairy tale 
definitions: 1 point

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pigwidgeon (n.)  A sugar packet used as a wedge to prop up a wobbly table. 
(v.) To use a pigwidgeon.

RANJIT 0
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pigwidgeon (n.)  The fattest clay pigeon that can be shot out of the 
skeet-throwing machine.

LINDA 2 = David 2
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pigwidgeon (n.)  A device for lifting a stone, consisting of several parts 
that
are assembled in a hole in the top of the stone.

PIERRE 4 = Fran 2 + Jean-Joseph 1 + correct guess 1
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pigwidgeon (n.)  A whortleberry tart.

DAVID 0

Hutch:  Also tempting, but from a different point of view. I'm hungry!

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pigwidgeon (n.)  1.  A fairy, dwarf, imp, or elf.  2.  (Derogatory) A 
small or insignificant person or thing; a stupid or contemptible person.

OED 6 = Fran 1 + Pierre 1 + Hutch 2 + Jean-Joseph 2

Hutch:  Due to the link (?) to Harry Potter, i'm voting for the fairy tale 
definitions. As my recollection seems to indicate that the owl named 
Pigwidgeon was a very small owl, I'm giving this one my 2-point vote: 2 
points
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pigwidgeon (n.)  A wedge of iron, used to support a piece of iron which is
being shaped.

JOSH 3 = Pierre 2 + David 1
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pigwidgeon (n.)  A blue and yellow fish, sometimes with spots, sometimes 
with warts.

JEAN-JOSEPH 3 = Linda 1 + Ranjit 1 + correct guess 2

Pierre:  Of what family? What shape? Any other features? This is about as 
vague as the
dogdrave.

Ranjit:  1 point for the fishy fish fish
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pigwidgeon (n.)  Under Elizabethan pre-Imperial unit standardization, the 
amount of wood that one subject may take from a royal forest each winter 
month.

NICK 0

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HUTCH submitted no def, but gets 2 points for a correct guess.

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Joke defs:


pigwidgeon (n.)  A tove with a doupee.

JEAN-JOSEPH


pigwidgeon (n.) - the feeling of sheer joy felt on election night when 
your favored candidate, against all probability, wins

DAVID