[Fictionary] KONZO ballot

[J-J Cote]

I'm in the middle of a busy weekend and won't be able to tally ballots
until at least Tuesday, so you still have time to get your votes in. Only a
few have so far. You're all probably busy as well. But that's no excuse,
what's more important than Fictionary?!

Jean-Joseph

On Thu, Aug 21, 2025 at 10:57 PM J-J Cote <marydevinechandler at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Here you go, eight fake definitions, one real definition, and one
> explicitly joke definition from David. Send in your one-point and two-point
> guesses before Labor Day weekend (although with all I have going on that
> weekend, results will probably not come out until a few days after that, so
> there's probably an implicit extension here). If you vote for David's joke
> definition, you lose half of your wager!
>
> Jean-Joseph
> _______________________________________________________________
>
> konzo - n. - (fr. Igbo) A taboo-breacher who is to be sold as a slave.
>
> konzo - n. - (derived from American Sign Language) - A rebus with no
> solution.
>
> konzo - n. - A dish of chopped vegetables, ground meat, and fried noodles,
> created for U.S. troops in Korea.
>
> konzo - n. - A fish of the species Larimichthys konzo, in the croaker
> family, found around Shikoku, whose swim bladder is held to have medicinal
> properties.
>
> konzo - adj. - (classic and retro video game community) - of music or
> especially sound effects, excellent, surprising. From Koji KONDO (composer
> at Nintendo) + GONZO.
>
> konzo - n. - 1. A traffic jam of hot-air balloons ascending and descending
> over the same spot.  2. Obstruction of the mind by an attempt to rethink
> too many beliefs at once.
>
> konzo - n. - A hand lettering style in which ascenders and descenders
> remain vertical but horizontals become oblique and parallel to the desired
> layout angle. From the Japanese calligraphic style.
>
> konzo - n. - An epidemic paralytic disease occurring among hunger-stricken
> rural populations in Africa where a diet dominated by insufficiently
> processed cassava results in simultaneous malnutrition and high dietary
> cyanide intake. [fr. Yaka "tied legs"]
>
> konzo - n. - [Port. konzo, agreement; from the legendary "O Konzo" between
> several Alani and Hasdingi chieftains who agreed that the last of them
> alive would take command of all their tribes; credited with forming the
> central group of the Vandal invasion and conquest of North Africa in 428]
> An agreement, similar to the French *tontine*, where the last survivor
> takes ownership of the entire value of the investment.
>
>
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