[Fictionary] UCALEGON ballot

[Jean-Joseph Cote]

Only a few more days until Beethoven's birthday, and I've received only 
a handful of votes, so get those votes in! Remember, you don't have to 
have submitted a definition in order to vote.

On 12/9/2022 12:19 PM, Jean-Joseph Cote wrote:
> Here we have several incorrect and one correct definitions for the 
> work UCALEGON. As usual, submit your two- and one-point guesses, let's 
> say by Beethoven's birthday.
>
> Jean-Joseph
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> ucalegon - adj. - Performing digestion outside of the body.
>
> ucalegon - n. - The dregs remaining after draining a krater of wine.
>
> ucalegon- n. - A neighbor whose house is on fire or has burned down.
>
> ucalegon - n. - A three-sided French casserole dish, used for cooking 
> squash.
>
> ucalegon - n. - A novelty stringed instrument played like a dulcimer 
> in the lap or on a table.
>
> ucalegon - n. - In Zakharov's doctrine of Undetectability, the 
> property of not being observed.
>
> ucalegon - n. - The part of a parasitic barnacle that wraps around the 
> internal organs of the host.
>
> ucalegon - n. - In thermionics, a two-terminal component through which 
> heat can flow in only one direction.  (Properly used only of the 
> convective heat diode or 'turnstile of Anaxagoras', but commonly 
> applied to other designs as well.)
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> Additional joke definitions -- do not vote!
>
> UCALEGON - Vanity license plate on the car of ghostbuster Egon 
> Spengler, who is proud of his Paraphychics degree from Berkeley.
>
> ucalegon - n. - A polygon with twice as many sides as an ithielegon.
>
> ucalegon - n. - A hypothesized noble gas with atomic number 168.
>
> ucalegon - n. - The odd 5-sided shape of a grass area in the 
> University of California that they can't call a quad.
>
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