[Fictionary] Subcrustose Results

[Nicolas Ward]

Sorry everyone! Completely spaced on this open round. I'd better stick to
participant. Also including Linda's def which I somehow missed again when
assembling the ballot.

While I fooled almost none of you with the lichen def I stumbled across,
David wins the round with his Davidesque improperly prepared def.

Take it away, David!

David 1 + 4
Elliott 2 + 2
Ranjit 2 + 2
Eric 2 + 1
Pierre 2 + 0
J-J 0 + 0
Linda 0 + 0

Eric - Ugh, we all made the same joke!
Elliott - Lots of sugar definitions.  Like Ranjit, I will avoid them.

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Linda

subcrustose, adj. Describing the substance beneath the top layer of a gem
in a setting, as with opals, thus providing  depth and luster while saving
money.

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Eric

subcrustose, n. The sweet substance formed by bacterial action just within
the outer layer of stale bread.

Linda - 1

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David

subcrustose, n. 1. improperly prepared food 2. A socially ineligible young
lady (freq. Irish or Eurasian) 3. Any object not up to proper
standards (British Indian officer slang)

Ranjit - 1
Eric - 1
Elliott - 1
Pierre - 1

Ranjit - Seems kinda Elliottic or Davidesque to me
Eric - One point. For, you know, mostly not being a carbohydrate.
Elliott - Doesn't sound hobson-jobson enough.  Where are the gymkhanas and
the punkah-wallahs?  But it doesn't mention sugar, so, one point.

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Ranjit

subcrustose, n. A form of sugar found primarily on Frosted Flakes.

Linda - 2

Linda - Got up for a midnight snack and saw Frosted Flakes

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Elliott

subcrustose, n. Of an organism, maintaining its internal temperature below
that of its environment.

David - 2

Elliott - How many ways can you think of for an animal to do that?  It
could sweat
constantly (evaporative cooling); it could eat snow; it could have a second
heart that pumps Freon; it could expand continually; what else?
Pierre - How does it do that?

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J-J

subcrustose, n. A sugar found in small quantities in primate breast milk.

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Wiktionary

subcrustose, adj. Of lichen, between crustose and foliose.

Ranjit - 2
Eric - 2
David - 1
Elliott - 2
Pierre - 2

Ranjit - 2 points for getting right 2 the point
Eric - Two points. For, you know, not being bogus.
Elliott - Could be the sub- that means ``a little bit''.
Pierre - Two points and the cudbear award.

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Pierre

subcrustose, n. A sugar that forms about 1 mm beneath the surface of baking
bread.

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