[Fictionary] AFICOT: Results

[Jim Moskowitz]

On Jun 13, 2020, at 1:37 PM, Elizabeth Heffner <elheffner at googlemail.com> wrote:
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> The correct definition was the wooden burnishing tool in the form of a lobster claw, primarily used in lacemaking.  I have one; pic attached.    Burnished threads are fuller and lie more smoothly adjacent to one another when this is desired.


I’d like to know how aficot is pronounced, since none of the dictionaries I have access to include it. I’m curious whether it really does rhyme with apricot and aliquot as some of the fake definitions implied — or whether we should have have more definitions with allusions to the afikomen.