[Fictionary] YANNIGAN results!

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Hi all!

Votes were pretty spread, but y'all did well on finding the real def, 
the baseball one, with five total points. The winner is Jean-Joseph with 
his suction rake, six points including two for voting for baseball.

Welcome Wesley, and welcome back Kir!


Elliott

yannigan, n. A brush used to clean other brushes.

2 David = 2

Kir: Maybe kind of like a wire bristle one? No that would really mess up 
some of the nice sables. Soap and water or turpentine and a fine comb 
work pretty well (Depending on what people have been painting with.)

Elliott: Well, what *do* you clean a brush with?

David: "The Mandelbrush."


Joshua

yannigan, n. A thin piece of wood forming a right angle, commonly used 
for mending post-and-rail fences.

1 Pierre = 1

Kir: Good fence building can be a cool specialty. But how do you use a 
right angle piece of wood with post and rail? Why wouldn't just a wedge 
work if the rail is loose? Or new rail… Or a new post . . .

Pierre: I'm having a hard time visualizing this, but I'll give it a point.

Elliott: Does it grow that way naturally? I read somewhere that 
age-of-sail navies used to harvest ``knees'', naturally-bent pieces of 
wood, for some shipbuilding purpose that I have since forgotten.

Eric: To attach things together at an angle. Grown knees are much 
stronger than steamed or otherwise bent knees.


Ranjit

yannigan, n. A crocheted capelet.

1 Jean-Joseph, 2 for correct vote = 3

Kir: I can't tell if the connection to the word afghan is intentional as 
part of a newly invented definition or the actual definition because of 
the connection the afghan made up by fiber workers. What a puzzle. When 
and where was crocheting invented? How did we get the word Afghan? 
Couldn't we have been making crocheted capelets before that?
I am clearly putting too much time into this.


David

yannigan, n. (Yamasee) Flooded scrubland.

2 Kir, 2 Pierre = 4

Kir: 2pts. I mean, it's probably not, but I like the idea of a scrubland 
that floods periodically and gets its own name because probably you can 
harvest different stuff while it's flooded than you can when it's not 
either because of seasonal availability or access via little rafts or 
canoes or . . . Maybe I just wanna explore such a place. (The nearby 
Salisbury Swamp probably doesn't qualify because it floods like this, 
but it's not scrub so much as it's actual trees…)

Ranjit: Bonus point (no retail value).


Jean-Joseph

yannigan, n. A suction rake for removing sludge from the bottom of a tank.

1 Wesley, 2 Elliott, 1 Ranjit, 2 for correct vote = 6

Kir: In all my tours of wastewater treatment plants I never saw a 
suction RAKE for the BOTTOM of tanks, but I kinda like it.

Elliott: "Suction rake" is a lovely collocation. Two points.


real

yannigan, n. A young, rookie, or bush-league baseball player.

1 Kir, 2 Jean-Joseph, 2 Ranjit = 5

Kir: I could see a baseball story involved here. One point.

Elliott: Sounds plausible. One point.


Pierre

yannigan, n. A lively Breton dance in 3/4 time, accompanied by a chorus 
of bombards.

2 Wesley, 1 David = 3

Kir: Kind of like morris dancing to the 1812 overture?

Eric: This is clearly ridiculous but I'd pay to hear it.

Elliott: Bombards being the most diuretic instrument ever invented, I'm 
sure the dance is lively if there's a chorus of them. But the word just 
doesn't sound very Breton to me, somehow.

Ranjit: I would like to hear this.

David: "Kornog-Tchaikovsky Award."


-- Eric