[Fictionary] emberlcock ballot

[Fran Poodry]

Please assign 2 points to one entry and 1 point for another entry. Please
return your completed ballot by the end of Sunday, December 12, so I can
release the results on Monday, December 13th.

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emberlucock (n.)  the male of the brownish-black variety of the ruffed
grouse species.  Found mostly in mud flats or deep woods, where the lack of
white markings gives good camouflage.

emberlucock  (v.) to confuse or bewilder (nonce-word accredited to
Rabelais, c. 1469)

(adj.) turmoiled, blundered or pestered, as the brain about a troublesome
business (as defined by Randle Cotgrave, c. 1611)

emberlucock  (n). a self-defense league of blackleg miners (Yorkshire
dial.; etymology unknown)

emberlucock (n.) a patented smoldering cuckoo clock, used to light the fire
and boil the coffee before the household awoke. (19th c)

emberlucock (n.) a visual disturbance in which one hallucinates birds.

emberlucock (n.) corruption of ambrecoq. An early French cannon. Used
heavily during the Siege of Barcelona when Louis XI sold weapons to both
sides of the Catalan Civil War.

emberlucock (n.)  a boot or gauntlet molded from rigid resin directly onto
the foot or hand that cannot be removed without destroying it. Most often
used for single-use armor, occasionally in fashion applications.

emberluckock (v.r.) 1. to become trapped in a waistcoat by eating so much
that the buttons cannot be unfastened.  2. to unwittingly take up a
responsibility that cannot easily be got rid of.

And a silly def: emberlucock, n. A secret fire-type Pokémon unlockable only
at the South Pole.


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