The results are in! The short version is:<div><br></div><div>Too much cinchona? It'll make you dizzy, not jaundiced, but at least you probably won't get malaria.</div><div><br></div><div>And Elliott won the round with 9 points for his chimeric def, though if you look closely, they are actually poinsettias grafted onto ents. </div>
<div><br></div><div>And now: general comments, followed by the tabulation, followed by more remarks, and capped off with some joke defs from Nora!</div><div><br></div><div>- ranjit</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>
<br><br>Elliott: "Ten is a lot. This was a pretty good round."<br>Pierre: "I'm not voting for any of the three cinchona defs because it's probable that one of the two is real."<br>Jean-Joseph: "Interesting that these definitions appear to come in pairs: two doctrines, two side effects caused by cinchona, two belt-cinchings, two unusual growths, and two arguments. By the bogus principle that any definition that's close to the real one would have gotten the word rejected, I will eliminate all of those, which must leave only mine and the real one. Since mine is the unusual fish growth, the real one must therefore be the runt apples and corn."<br>
<br><br><b>cinchonism - n. - An abnormal condition found in some bony pelagic fishes, characterized by the appearance of extra fins in atypical locations.<br>-Jean-Joseph, who got 4 points</b><br><br>Elliott: "Also found in American cars of the 1950s."<br>
1 point from Jim<div>1 point from Larry</div><div>2 points from Linda</div><div><br></div><div><br><br><b>cinchonism - n - the belief that tight clothing (e.g. girdles, cummerbunds) is healthy, while loose clothing is unhealthy.<br>
-Hutch, who got 2 points</b><br><br>1 point from Nora <br>1 points from Elliott: "There is an interesting discussion of ``tight-lacing'' in Paul Fussell's book on the Second World War (_Wartime_) that sounds something like this. One point."<br>
Jacob: "A little too spot on, don't you think?"<div><br></div><div><br><br><b>cinchonism - n - a disorder due to excessive or prolonged use of cinchona or its alkaloids and marked by temporary deafness, ringing in the ears, headache, dizziness, and rash.<br>
-Merriam-Webster Online, which got 4 points</b><br>2 points from Eric: "Which means mine was a little too close to the mark."</div><div>2 points from Jacob: "most plausible"<br><br><br><b>Cinchonism: (noun) The doctrine that a person can achieve a high spiritual state by paying detailed attention to timing and punctuality.<br>
-Larry</b><br><br><br><b>cinchonism (n.) -- The doctrine that humans, like mermaids or fauns, are chimeric, their forequarters and hindquarters belonging to two different extinct or undiscovered species. (< Pierre Adrien Maximilien Jean Baptiste de Cinchon, 1657-1715.)<br>
-Elliott, who got 9 points</b></div><div><br>1 point from Eric: "Clearly true, as a human is merely the forepart of a mermaid placed unnaturally atop the hindquarters of a minotaur."<br>2 points from David<br>Elliott: "This definition is itself chimeric, being spliced together from the Era of Belief in Mythical Creatures and the Era of Belief in Extinction."<br>
Jim: "3 cheers for a definition that made me snort my woodchuck (metaphorically) -- but sadly no points."<br>Pierre: "Reminds me of grue-bleen."<br>2 points from Hutch: "Absolutely delightful!!!!! I don't believe it for a second, but it's so good it deserves a 2-point vote!"</div>
<div>1 point from Jacob</div><div>2 points from Larry</div><div>1 point from Linda</div><div><br><br><b>cinchonism, n. a dwarfing of part of a fruit or vegetable, such as an under-developed portion of an apple or under-pollinated corn cob.<br>
-Linda, who got 5 points</b><br>2 points from Jim<br>1 point from Pierre<br>2 points from Jean-Joseph<br><br><b>cinchonism, n. A humorous logical argument typical of Willard van Orman Quinine.<br>-Pierre, who got 4 <i>who got 4 points</i> points</b><br>
Eric: "Many funny points!"<br>2 points from Elliott: "OK, I like this one, even though it is a quinine def. Two points!"<br>1 point from Hutch: "Again, I don't believe it. But it's another good fictionition and deserves my 1-point vote"<br>
1 point from Jean-Joseph: "Probably Elliott. So I'll give it the other point."<br><br><br><b>cinchonism, n. The jaundiced hue brought on by dosing with cinchona bark or similar antimalarials.<br>-Eric, who got 2 points for guessing correctly</b><br>
<br><br><b>cinchonism – n.(fr. Spanish) - to make a fetish of tightening your belt, literally or metaphorically.<br>-David, who got 2 points</b><br><br>2 points from Nora<br>Elliott: "Does ``literally or metaphorically'' apply to ``tightening your belt'', or to ``make a fetish of''? I think there would be people in all four possible cells, even the one where you literally make a fetish of metaphorically tightening your belt."<br>
<br><br><b>cinchonism, n. (Rhetoric) A type of fallacious argument in which the audience is assumed to disagree with a previously made argument.<br>-Jacob, who got 5 points</b><br>1 point from David<br>2 points from Pierre: "Two points for sounding like mine."</div>
<div>2 points for guessing correctly<br><br><br>Wrapping up, Jean-Joseph said "Interesting, my strategy completely backfired, the real one is the that most closely matches one of the fakes, differing only in the symptoms. And my one-point guess is related to those, as it refers to a guy named Quinine, when that is actually what is derived from the bark. Not that I was aware of that, of course. I guess that's what I learned today."<br>
<br></div><div>And Larry: "<span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); ">No points for either of the two "cinching one's belt" defs, nor for either of the two medicinal uses of the cinchona (which I've never heard of), on the basis that if two defs use a word that might be related, neither of them is the correct one."</span></div>
<div><br><br>BONUS! Joke defs from Nora:<br>"Since my brain went directly to the Spanish word "cincho" contained within the word, and in particular "cinchon" or "giant belt," these are the definitions I was going to submit. Since I forgot, I will submit them as jokes because they kind of are. :)"<br>
<br>joke definitions:<br>cinchonism. n. the action of going for one's belt when threatening children with discipline. (although this would probably be better if the word were "cinchonate.")<br><br>cinchonism. n. the condition of believing one continues to have a big waist after weight loss.<br>
-Nora<br><br></div></div></div>