[Fictionary] Misqueme - to displease (Results)

[Ranjit Bhatnagar]

I just got back from a visit to Oregon (Rockaway Beach and Portland) where
I ate SO MANY wild blackberries, and that's what inspired my mitskwema def!

- Ranjit


On Tue, Sep 7, 2021 at 5:58 PM Fran Poodry <fpoodry at gmail.com> wrote:

> Man, y'all sure don't live in the Pacific Northwest, where berries are
> king and if misqueme was really a relative of the blackberry it would be at
> all the farmers markets. I'ma go get some salmonberries now. Maybe eat some
> marionberry pie later. LOL.
> -Fran
>
> On Tue, Sep 7, 2021 at 5:22 AM Ranjit Bhatnagar <ranjit at moonmilk.com>
> wrote:
>
>> 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
>>>
>>
>
> --
> *Fran Poodry (she/her)*
> *Oregon, USA*
>
>
>
> *“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.” ― Margaret
> Mead <http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/61107.Margaret_Mead>*
>
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