[Fictionary] PIGWIDGEON results!

Sat Nov 19 19:10:31 EST 2016

Hmm, I think 1 + 1 + 2 also equals 4...

Sent from my smahfone.

<div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: eLLioTT morEton <em at swarpa.net> </div><div>Date:2016/11/19  18:29  (GMT-05:00) </div><div>To: Fran Poodry <fpoodry at gmail.com> </div><div>Cc: fictionary at swarpa.net </div><div>Subject: Re: [Fictionary] PIGWIDGEON results! </div><div>
</div>Oh, sorry, right, Fran.  You're tied with Pierre, 4 to 4.  Rock, scissors, 
paper?

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On Sat, 19 Nov 2016, Fran Poodry wrote:

> I think 2+1+1=4, but with all that has happened in 2016 maybe I'm wrong.
> ;-)
>
> On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 5:28 AM eLLioTT morEton <em at swarpa.net> wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
>>
>> ________________________________________________________________________________
>> 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
>>
>> ________________________________________________________________________________
>> 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
>>
>>
>> ________________________________________________________________________________
>> pigwidgeon (n.)  A sugar packet used as a wedge to prop up a wobbly table.
>> (v.) To use a pigwidgeon.
>>
>> RANJIT 0
>>
>> ________________________________________________________________________________
>> pigwidgeon (n.)  The fattest clay pigeon that can be shot out of the
>> skeet-throwing machine.
>>
>> LINDA 2 = David 2
>>
>> ________________________________________________________________________________
>> 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
>>
>> ________________________________________________________________________________
>> pigwidgeon (n.)  A whortleberry tart.
>>
>> DAVID 0
>>
>> Hutch:  Also tempting, but from a different point of view. I'm hungry!
>>
>>
>> ________________________________________________________________________________
>> 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
>>
>> ________________________________________________________________________________
>> pigwidgeon (n.)  A wedge of iron, used to support a piece of iron which is
>> being shaped.
>>
>> JOSH 3 = Pierre 2  David 1
>>
>> ________________________________________________________________________________
>> 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
>>
>> ________________________________________________________________________________
>> 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
>>
>>
>> ________________________________________________________________________________
>>
>> HUTCH submitted no def, but gets 2 points for a correct guess.
>>
>>
>> ================================================================================
>> 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
>>
>>
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