<div style="white-space:pre-wrap">I think 2+1+1=4, but with all that has happened in 2016 maybe I'm wrong.<br>;-)</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sat, Nov 19, 2016 at 5:28 AM eLLioTT morEton <<a href="mailto:em@swarpa.net">em@swarpa.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Dear Fictionary,<br class="gmail_msg">
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Pierre's stone-lifter edges out Josh's iron wedge and Jean-Joseph's fish<br class="gmail_msg">
to capture the laurels this time.<br class="gmail_msg">
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I had expected some defs involving widgeons (a kind of duck), but didn't<br class="gmail_msg">
get any. Several of yall, being better-read than I, knew something about<br class="gmail_msg">
this word that I did not:<br class="gmail_msg">
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Linda: Hmm, I saw this word somewhere --could it have been in an old Natl<br class="gmail_msg">
Geog?<br class="gmail_msg">
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Hutch: When eLLioTT posted this word, I was thinking it sounded familiar.<br class="gmail_msg">
But when I saw the ballot, I remembered why I thought it familiiar. ... I<br class="gmail_msg">
think! ... Unless I'm mistooken, "Pigwidgeon" was the name of one of the<br class="gmail_msg">
owls that delivered messages to Harry Potter's Gryffindor housemates at<br class="gmail_msg">
Hogwart's. We shall see ...<br class="gmail_msg">
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Jean-Joseph: Huh. I thought it sounded familiar. It's apparently also<br class="gmail_msg">
the name of Ron Weasley's first pet owl.<br class="gmail_msg">
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Haul it away, Pierre!<br class="gmail_msg">
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Regards,<br class="gmail_msg">
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pigwidgeon (v.t.) To force an oversized joint of meat into a pot or<br class="gmail_msg">
kettle.<br class="gmail_msg">
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JACOB 2 = Ranjit 2<br class="gmail_msg">
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Hutch: Very tempting! Had I not decided it had to be something fairy, I<br class="gmail_msg">
coulda gone here. Give this one an imaginary tie-breaker vote.<br class="gmail_msg">
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Ranjit: 2 points for the pig-wedging<br class="gmail_msg">
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pigwidgeon (n.) In Welsh lore, a spirit of benevolent chaos which visits<br class="gmail_msg">
farms and stirs up animals and objects. Visits result in lost items being<br class="gmail_msg">
found, recovery of relationships gone bad, and refreshing change.<br class="gmail_msg">
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FRAN 2 = Linda 2 Hutch 1 correct guess 1<br class="gmail_msg">
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Linda: Two points for the Welsh benevolent spirit if it cleans up some of<br class="gmail_msg">
my clutter.<br class="gmail_msg">
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Hutch: Due to the link to Harry Potter, I'm voting for the fairy tale<br class="gmail_msg">
definitions: 1 point<br class="gmail_msg">
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pigwidgeon (n.) A sugar packet used as a wedge to prop up a wobbly table.<br class="gmail_msg">
(v.) To use a pigwidgeon.<br class="gmail_msg">
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RANJIT 0<br class="gmail_msg">
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pigwidgeon (n.) The fattest clay pigeon that can be shot out of the<br class="gmail_msg">
skeet-throwing machine.<br class="gmail_msg">
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LINDA 2 = David 2<br class="gmail_msg">
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pigwidgeon (n.) A device for lifting a stone, consisting of several parts<br class="gmail_msg">
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are assembled in a hole in the top of the stone.<br class="gmail_msg">
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PIERRE 4 = Fran 2 Jean-Joseph 1 correct guess 1<br class="gmail_msg">
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pigwidgeon (n.) A whortleberry tart.<br class="gmail_msg">
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DAVID 0<br class="gmail_msg">
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Hutch: Also tempting, but from a different point of view. I'm hungry!<br class="gmail_msg">
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pigwidgeon (n.) 1. A fairy, dwarf, imp, or elf. 2. (Derogatory) A<br class="gmail_msg">
small or insignificant person or thing; a stupid or contemptible person.<br class="gmail_msg">
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OED 6 = Fran 1 Pierre 1 Hutch 2 Jean-Joseph 2<br class="gmail_msg">
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Hutch: Due to the link (?) to Harry Potter, i'm voting for the fairy tale<br class="gmail_msg">
definitions. As my recollection seems to indicate that the owl named<br class="gmail_msg">
Pigwidgeon was a very small owl, I'm giving this one my 2-point vote: 2<br class="gmail_msg">
points<br class="gmail_msg">
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pigwidgeon (n.) A wedge of iron, used to support a piece of iron which is<br class="gmail_msg">
being shaped.<br class="gmail_msg">
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JOSH 3 = Pierre 2 David 1<br class="gmail_msg">
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pigwidgeon (n.) A blue and yellow fish, sometimes with spots, sometimes<br class="gmail_msg">
with warts.<br class="gmail_msg">
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JEAN-JOSEPH 3 = Linda 1 Ranjit 1 correct guess 2<br class="gmail_msg">
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Pierre: Of what family? What shape? Any other features? This is about as<br class="gmail_msg">
vague as the<br class="gmail_msg">
dogdrave.<br class="gmail_msg">
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Ranjit: 1 point for the fishy fish fish<br class="gmail_msg">
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pigwidgeon (n.) Under Elizabethan pre-Imperial unit standardization, the<br class="gmail_msg">
amount of wood that one subject may take from a royal forest each winter<br class="gmail_msg">
month.<br class="gmail_msg">
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NICK 0<br class="gmail_msg">
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HUTCH submitted no def, but gets 2 points for a correct guess.<br class="gmail_msg">
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pigwidgeon (n.) A tove with a doupee.<br class="gmail_msg">
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pigwidgeon (n.) - the feeling of sheer joy felt on election night when<br class="gmail_msg">
your favored candidate, against all probability, wins<br class="gmail_msg">
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