[Fictionary] Flong Ballot

[Nicolas Ward]

Last call for ballot; I have votes from Ranjit, E, Joshua, David, Pierre, Hutch, and J-J. Will collate this evening.

--Nick

> On May 11, 2024, at 9:07 AM, Nicolas Ward <nward at ultranurd.net> wrote:
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> Send in your 2 and 1 point votes by Friday, May 17th!
> 
> --Nick
> 
> flong, n. A water pipe for smoking marijuana that is connected to a tap and a drain to provide a continuous supply of fresh water. [portmanteau of flowing + bong]
> 
> flong, n. A bandage worn under a cilice to protect wounds.
> 
> flong, n. [18th C. Engl. sci. jargon, fr. Ger. flogn.] phlogiston.
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> flong, n. [from French flan] A sheet (as of several layers of tissue paper superposed on a sheet of heavier paper) used for making a stereotype matrix.
> 
> flong, n. [Old Norse, from Gaelic, from Latin navis longa, long ship] A Viking
> ship modelled on ships used by Gaels in the Hebrides.
> 
> flong, n. An awkwardly inaccessible location.
> 
> flong, n. A ring of raised ridges on a drinking glass, used for ease of holding when intoxicated.
> 
> One of these seven is the real definition of flong!
> 
> Here are some bonus joke/if we could send two defs:
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> flong, n. [Yorkshire dial.] 1. sheep that has pastured on former monastery grounds; 2. a girl old enough to dance with boys.
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> flong, n. Not quite a furlong.
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> flong, n. In Zig, a floating-point number 10 bytes long on Intel or AMD
> processors, or 16 bytes long on Power processors.