[Fictionary] harling results
Joshua Randall
joshuarandall.nyc at gmail.com
Tue Nov 11 14:59:21 UTC 2025
The real def that I saw is similar enough to the coffee kind that it would
be a spoiler.
Thoughts on codille?
On Sun, Nov 9, 2025 at 10:06 PM E <e2836 at gmx.com> wrote:
> On 2025-11-09 8:10 PM, Joshua Randall wrote:
> > Does the group know klatch?
>
> Only the kaffee kind!
>
> >
> > On Wed, Nov 5, 2025 at 6:49 PM Joshua Randall
> > <joshuarandall.nyc at gmail.com <mailto:joshuarandall.nyc at gmail.com>>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi all!
> >
> > I will send out a word candidate in the next few days.
> >
> > Joshua
> >
> > On Mon, Nov 3, 2025 at 11:18 PM E <e2836 at gmx.com
> > <mailto:e2836 at gmx.com>> wrote:
> >
> > Looks like this word wasn't so mysterious, the real definition
> > -- lime
> > applied to the exterior of a building -- got plenty of votes.
> > The big
> > winner, though, is Joshua with his very popular hat ornament as
> > well as
> > two points for the real def.
> >
> >
> > General comments:
> >
> > David: joke definition: harling - n. - a language that doesn't
> > have a /z/.
> >
> > Pierre: Some defs imply /'haɹliŋ/, others /'haɹlɪŋ/.
> >
> > --------
> >
> > Hutch
> >
> > harling, n. A hiking activity consisting of traveling from one
> > place to
> > another via the highest (or lowest) possible route, regardless of
> > difficulty or danger. Named for an early participant, Stephen
> > Harl, who
> > died in 1931 while attempting a traverse in the Grampians.
> >
> > 6 = 1 for real, 2 Elliott, 2 Wesley, 1 Ranjit
> >
> > Eric: extra credit for "Grampians".
> >
> > Pierre: I give this an imaginary tiebreaker point. Several days
> > ago, the
> > next-door neighbor to the lot I'm surveying led me to the back
> > irons,
> > and I had to take the high route while going from one to the
> > other. I'm
> > planning to traverse to both irons today from the nearby field.
> >
> > Elliott: Sounds like something hiking enthusiasts would have a
> > word for,
> > but would it be this word, with this origin story? It would be
> > like
> > saying, "Let's go hindenburging" to propose a transatlantic
> airship
> > flight. People might feel like if they took you up on it,
> > they'd be
> > tempting fate. ... Enh, two points.
> >
> > Ranjit: I'll give this one a point because I've been enjoying
> > videos of
> > people doing "straight line missions" in which they attempt to
> > cross a
> > rural region - or a city - in as close to a straight line as
> > possible,
> > regardless of what they have to climb over or wade through."
> >
> > --------
> >
> > Pierre
> >
> > harling, n. In eighth-century Lombardy, an official appointed by
> a
> > gastald to lead a police force.
> >
> > Nicolas: This one tempted me but region sounds off.
> >
> > --------
> >
> > Wesley
> >
> > harling, n. Derogatory slur from the 1600s referring to someone’s
> > appearance resembling that of a harpy. Also denotes that their
> > temperament is very tumultuous like a storm.
> >
> > Hutch: Harpies, in legend, have extremely foul (fowl?) tempers.
> One
> > hardly needs to say that someone who resembles a harpy has a
> > "stormy"
> > temperament. Sorry, don't believe it.
> >
> > --------
> >
> > real definition
> >
> > harling, n. A rough-textured wall finish of lime and small
> > pebbles or
> > shells, generally applied to exterior walls to protect against
> > moisture.
> >
> > 6 = 1 Nicolas, 1 Jean-Joseph, 1 Hutch, 2 Joshua, 1 David
> >
> > Elliott: The word does have a mass-noun sound to it, but there's
> > something suspicious about that ``generally''.
> >
> > Eric: Yes, but you have to remember that I'm smooshing together
> > defs
> > from Wikipedia and elsewhere, and might not do it so well.
> >
> > Ranjit: This sounds so believable that I refuse to believe it.
> I'll
> > include a non-negotiable bonus point, though!"
> >
> > --------
> >
> > David
> >
> > harling, n. (fr. Damon Runyon) A young moll resembling Jean
> Harlow.
> >
> > 3 = 2 for real, 1 Elliott
> >
> > Nicolas: 😆
> >
> > Pierre: Don't know either of them.
> >
> > Hutch: I've read a fair bit of Runyon. I just don't believe it.
> >
> > Elliott: All right, sounds like 1940s humor. One point.
> >
> > --------
> >
> > Joshua
> >
> > harling, n. A garland of decorative flowers pinned around the
> > band of a
> > wide-brimmed hat.
> >
> > 10 = 2 for real, 2 Nicolas, 2 Jean-Joseph, 2 Hutch, 2 Ranjit
> >
> > Elliott: Maybe inspired by "garland"?
> >
> > --------
> >
> > Jean-Joseph
> >
> > harling, n. A geriatric wallaby.
> >
> > 2 = 1 for real, 1 Wesley
> >
> > Nicolas: Awwww
> >
> > Hutch:
> > Let me wallaby be, sport.
> > Let me wallaby be
> > If ya don't then he'll come after me, sport.
> > So let me wallaby be.
> > Yes, tie me kangaroo down, sport ...
> >
> > --------
> >
> > Nicolas
> >
> > harling, n. Any child of a clan leader, other than the firstborn
> > and heir.
> >
> > 3 = 1 for real, 2 Pierre
> >
> > --------
> >
> > Ranjit
> >
> > harling, n. A 19c decorative style for furniture and interior
> > finish in
> > the northeastern United States, making frequent use of vertical
> > fluting
> > combined with circular medallions
> >
> > 2 = 2 David
> >
> > Elliott: Sounds like something in Eric's ministerial portfolio,
> but
> > "19c" doesn't sound like him.
> >
> > --------
> >
> > Elliott
> >
> > harling, n. Vibration of an object placed in a wind tunnel at an
> > antinode of one of the tunnel's natural frequencies.
> >
> > 2 = 1 Pierre, 1 Joshua
> >
> > Nicolas: I think I would have encountered this in engineering
> > curriculum
> > at some point.
> >
> > Elliott: I really should have specified that this meant a
> velocity
> > antinode, not a pressure antinode.
> >
> >
> >
> > -- Eric
> >
>
>
> --
> -- Eric
>
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