[Fictionary] inchpin results

Sat Feb 22 22:55:36 EST 2020

OK, thanks, Linda.  Hope your eyes and your monitor come to mutually 
satisfactory terms.  I hereby accept the meistership of the next round. 
Let's start the bidding with

SQUOYLE

Please let me know within a week (i.e., by Feb. 29th) if this word won't 
work for you.  Otherwise, defs are due by a week after that (i.e., March 
7th).

Regards,
em

On Sat, 22 Feb 2020, lindafowens at netzero.net wrote:

> Elliott, could you take the next round? I'm just getting used to my new 
> Windows 10 with glitches built in, and my eyes are still a bit sore from 
> the glare of the screen, but I'm working on it.  I'll take another round 
> soon if there's another tie.  Linda Had to retype my name as it's time 
> to rest the old headlights.
>
> ---------- Original Message ----------
> From: E Cohen <eac at inbox.com>
> To: "fictionary at swarpa.net" <fictionary at swarpa.net>
> Subject: [Fictionary] inchpin results
> Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2020 20:24:01 -0500
>
> I'm so sorry that after all your lovely and prompt definitions and
> votes, personal matters kept me from posting this for so long.
>
> The real def is the deer's sweetbread, and this round's result is a tie
> between Linda and Elliott, each with five points.
>
> --------------------------------------------
> General comments:
>
> Jean-Joseph: Eliminating obscure organisms and obvious jokes about what
> the word superficially seems to mean (like the joke definition I thought
> of sending in, "a critical but essential component" doesn't leave many
> choices.  But I'm delighted to see such high participation this round.
> Glorious!
>
> Linda: Great selection, love the Sprite def--must try it.
>
> Ranjit: I have no idea which is the true definition so I'm voting for
> the ones I think are the funniest.
>
>
> --------------------------------------------
> Real definition:
>
> inchpin, n. (obs). Deerâ??s sweetbread.
>
> 4 points: 1 Elliott, 2 Pierre, 1 Jean-Joseph
>
> Elliott: I can see how come it's obsolete.  One point for being
> unrelated to ``inch'' or ``pin''.
>
> Jean-Joseph: One point by elimination.
>
> Hutch: Wild mountain oysters :-D
>
> Nicolas: Ew.
>
>
> --------------------------------------------
> Elliott
>
> inchpin, n. A secret message written in Sprite and read by laying the
> paper on an anthill.
>
> 5 points: 2 Jean-Joseph, 2 Ranjit, 1 correct vote
>
> Jim: Thank You Elliott award
>
> Elliott: Mine.  Determined not to be inspired by the actual meanings of
> ``inch'' and ``pin'', I let ``inch'' be ``ink'' (like pinch/pink,
> stench/stink, linch(pin)/link), and ``pin'' be ``pen''.
>
> Fran: These two are hilarious. I loved them but I am not giving them any
> points.
>
> Jean-Joseph: Absolutely not correct, but definitely worth two points.
>
> Hutch: And the ants eat away the sugar-soaked paper, leaving the message
> to be read from the negative space? Does this actually WORK???
>
> Nicolas: My son would love this.
>
>
> --------------------------------------------
> Fran
>
> inchpin, n. 1) Any of the Rhabditida family of nematodes, commonly found
> as a parasite in the small intestines of reptiles and amphibians, and
> primarily endemic in the subtropics. 2) Any short, thin parasitic
> roundworm found in the gut of an animal.
>
> 3 points: 1 Jim, 1 Pierre, 1 Nicolas
>
> Pierre: That's an order; families end in -idae. Still, I give it a point.
>
> Hutch: I never vote for scientific terms.
>
> Nicolas: 1 point, realistic and gross.
>
>
> --------------------------------------------
> Jean-Joseph
>
> inchpin, v. To fraudulently list a person as a dependent on a tax document.
>
> 3 points: 2 Jim, 1 correct vote
>
> Jim: I like that it's a verb.
>
> Hutch: Seems a curiously specific sort of crime with very little
> remuneration.
>
> Nicolas: Maybe this does have a word, but I'm out of points.
>
>
> --------------------------------------------
> Pierre
>
> inchpin, n. (Scots Gaelic innispeann, island feather.) An auklet of the
> species Aethia nesiota, found in the Hebrides.
>
> 2 points, correct vote
>
> Elliott: I like it, but I'm out of points.
>
> Hutch: I never vote for scientific terms
>
> Nicolas: Porg?
>
>
> --------------------------------------------
> Hutch
>
> inchpin, n. A nail driven lightly into a board to hold a measuring tape
> in place. v. to drive in such a nail.
>
> 3 points: 2 Linda, 1 David
>
> Jim: A very sensible etymology presents itself. Therefore, too
> plausible. No points.
>
> Nicolas: This is probably the real one.
>
>
> --------------------------------------------
> Linda
>
> inchpin, n. A spacing device for drilling holes in a belt or similar
> piece of leather or other material.
>
> 5 points: 1 Fran, 2 David, 2 Nicolas
>
> Fran: Very believable, 1 pt.
>
> Hutch: Too similar to mine.
>
> Nicolas: 2 points for the special awl (?)
>
>
> --------------------------------------------
> Nicolas
>
> inchpin, n. 1) The primary equipment for miniature tabletop bowling, a
> game briefly popular after the World's Columbian Exposition. 2) Any
> inexperienced local politician ineffectually running for state or
> national office.
>
> 3 points: 1 Hutch, 1 Linda, 1 Ranjit
>
> Jean-Joseph: Entertaining enough that I almost  gave this one a vote.
>
> Hutch: Isn't there a new Columbian Exposition every two or four years?
> Which one? And how do we go from "tabletop bowling" to a political
> term??? This is weird enough to be real: 1 point
>
> Nicolas: Mine, sassing Mayor Pete.
>
> Ranjit: 1 point and the I Think That's Probably Elliott Or David Award.
>
>
> --------------------------------------------
> David
>
> inchpin, n. The crime boss of a small city.
>
> 2 points: 2 Elliott
>
> Eliott: Two points for being very funny and not being a kind of pin.
>
> Fran: These two are hilarious. I loved them but I am not giving them any
> points.
>
> Hutch: a "kingpin" but only for "inches".
>
> Nicolas: Hahaha
>
>
> --------------------------------------------
> Jim
>
> inchpin, adj. A Shakespearean insult deprecating anotherâ??s manhood.
>
> 4 points: 2 Fran, 2 Hutch
>
> Jim: Why did I make this an adjective? It would make much more sense as
> a noun. I mean, yeah, it could be used as an adjective, like in â??thou
> inchpin blaggard!â??, butâ?¦ remind me to proofread before sending in my
> entries in the future!
>
> Fran: Very believable: 2 pts.
>
> Hutch: This feels very Shakespearean. 2 points
>
> Nicolas: Doesn't sound like Willy Shakes to me?
>
>
> --------------------------------------------
> Ranjit
>
> inchpin, n. A Flat Earth believer.
>
> Jean-Joseph: I guess I don't have any specific reason to exclude this,
> but I'm out of points.
>
> Ranjit: author's note: because flat, earth, inch, and pin are all kinds
> of worms
>
> Hutch: Much too good a word for them.
>
> Nicolas: If you give them an inchâ?¦
>
>
>
>
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