[Fictionary] Misqueme - to displease (Results)

[Ranjit Bhatnagar]

Quick response to say that I did get the email! Whatever ate the first few
misqueme emails is - I hope - sated now, and I did receive the reply that
Pierre sent without the bcc.

I'll find a new word soon!

- r.




On Tue, Sep 7, 2021 at 12:43 AM Hutch <hutchinson.jeff at gmail.com> wrote:

> It was a three-way tie (Elliot's 'heckle', Fran's 'indigenous name', and
> David's 'bee disease') until the last two votes came in on Monday. And they
> sent Ranjit's 'Washington blackberry' from behind to a SOLID victory.
>
> The real story here is that the real definition ('displease') got NO votes
> at all. No one even commented on it.
>
> Ranjit: you're up to bat!
>
> (NOTE: Ranjit was the member who didn't receive the early emails. I've
> BCC'ed him again, but if anyone has direct contact with him, let him know
> if he doesn't respond in the next few days.)
>
> BB,
> Hutch
>
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>
> misqueme - v. - to heckle a speaker by mischievously answering a
> rhetorical question
> by eLLioTT morEton 3
> 1 Eric Cohen
> 2 Ranjit Bhatnagar
>
> misqueme - n. - An expansive mangrove swamp laced with narrow waterways
> navigable by canoe, with scattered islets large enough to support small
> groups of huts
> by Jean-Joseph Cote 1
> 1 Pierre Abbat
>
> misqueme - n - [French misquème, from Arabic misqim, from saqum, sycomore]
> 1. A Lebanese sauce made from sycomore figs and dates, spiced with cinnamon
> and thyme 2. A dish of chicken, lamb, goat, or beans with this sauce
> by Pierre Abbat 1
> 1 Ranjit Bhatnagar
>
> misqueme - v. - to dance down an aisle or runway in a sashaying gait
> by Linda F Owens 0
>
> misqueme - n. - a geological feature that approximates the name of the
> feature as known by indigenous people local to the region surrounding the
> feature. Ex: The name of Mooselookmeguntic Lake in Maine, United States is
> a misqueme, since the name approximates an Abnaki word meaning "place where
> moose eat."
> by Fran Poodry 3
> David Randall: I am at Moosehead Lake  in Maine, on vacation, right now!
> 2 Eric Cohen: Two points. And well-deserved, because i) this needs a word
> for it, and ii) the author went to the trouble of typing
> "Mooselookmeguntic".
> 1 Linda F Owens: One point for the indigenous geological forms. Chicopee
> [MA] means The Falls, in Algonkian, btw. My Dad worked in redundant
> Chicopee Falls for many decades.
>
> misqueme - n. - a bee colony suffering from infectious sexual dysphoria,
> transmitted by wax moths
> by David Randall 3: Kipling’s The Hive is the source, fyi.
> Eric Cohen: Wax moths don't transmit sexual dysphoria, they transmit
> death. (Also, possibly, socialism -- cf. Kipling, "The Mother Hive".)
> 2 Linda F Owens: Sadly, we lost all of our bees a few decades ago to
> Acarine Mites. So, two points for the poor disoriented bees.
> Pierre Abbat: I don't beelieve it. Are we talking about honeybees,
> bumblebees, sweat bees, or what?
> 1 Jean-Joseph Cote
>
> misqueme - v. - to displease; to offend
> Real: _Forthright's Phrontistery: Obscure Words and Vocabulary Resources:
> Compendium of Lost Words_ 0
>
> misqueme - n. - The attestation required from a diocesan bishop for the
> establishment of any religious house within the diocese
> by E Cohen 1
> 1 David Randall
>
> misqueme - n. - (var. mitskwema) a relative of the blackberry, endemic to
> the Pacific Northwest of the United States
> by Ranjit Bhatnagar 6
> 2 David Randall
> 2 Pierre Abbat
> 2 Jean-Joseph Cote
>
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