<div dir="ltr"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-0fce8b13-f8c9-b7ac-3ab4-8b13587d9651"><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">The winner is Nick, who garnered more points than anyone else even before he voted for the correct definition. Hutch hit the nail on the head (see his comment at the end) - and I felt a little guilty using what is essentially a made-up word as the word, but I was kindof hoping for definitions like Ranjit's smoldering clock, which is what it conjured up in my mind as well. Plus birds in general.</span></p><p style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><font face="arial"><span style="font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap">-Fran</span></font></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">emberlucock (n.) the male of the brownish-black variety of the ruffed grouse species. Found mostly in mud flats or deep woods, where the lack of white markings gives good camouflage.
By Linda, 6 points</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">2 pts (correct guess)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">1 pt (Pierre)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">2 pts (David)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">1 pt (Nick)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">"umber" and "cock"? In fact, white markings among brown and black markings make the best camouflage in woods, simulating spots of sunlight among shaded areas. Consider the standard coloration of fawns (both white-tailed and mule deer). -Hutch</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Too plausible. -Elliott</span></p><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></div><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">emberlucock </span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">(v.) to confuse or bewilder (nonce-word accredited to Rabelais, c. 1469) </span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial;font-size:16px;white-space:pre-wrap">(adj.) turmoiled, blundered or pestered, as the brain about a troublesome business (as defined by Randle Cotgrave, c. 1611)</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:15pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">From </span><a href="http://therumpus.net/2014/06/word-of-the-day-emberlucock/" style="text-decoration:none"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;text-decoration:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">http://therumpus.net/2014/06/word-of-the-day-emberlucock/</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br class="gmail-kix-line-break"></span></a><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">2 pts (Linda)</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br class="gmail-kix-line-break"></span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">2 pts (Hutch)</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br class="gmail-kix-line-break"></span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">2 pts (Nick)</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br class="gmail-kix-line-break"></span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Are you trying to metagrobolize us? -Pierre</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br class="gmail-kix-line-break"></span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">I like it! I've certainly been emberlucocked by this word: 2 points -Hutch</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br class="gmail-kix-line-break"></span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Ends in -ck. I don't think Rabelais would have made up a verb ending in -ck. -Elliott</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br class="gmail-kix-line-break"></span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Rabelais was sixteenth century. -David</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:15pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:15pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">emberlucock (n). a self-defense league of blackleg miners (Yorkshire dial.; etymology unknown)</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br class="gmail-kix-line-break"></span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">By David, 1 point</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br class="gmail-kix-line-break"></span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">1 pt (Jean-Joseph)</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br class="gmail-kix-line-break"></span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">"etymology unknown". I can't think of a way that such a word could have come about, so I'll admit it. Isn't that about it? :-) -Hutch</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br class="gmail-kix-line-break"></span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Is there mining in Yorkshire? Yorked if I know. -Elliott</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br class="gmail-kix-line-break"></span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Me. With the Steeleye Span version of "Blackleg Miner" in mind. -David</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:15pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:15pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">emberlucock (n.) a patented smoldering cuckoo clock, used to light the fire and boil the coffee before the household awoke. (19th c)</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br class="gmail-kix-line-break"></span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">By Ranjit, 1 point</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br class="gmail-kix-line-break"></span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">1 pt (Elliott)</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br class="gmail-kix-line-break"></span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Seems like this would destroy itself each morning. Do you have to build/buy a new one every day? -Hutch</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br class="gmail-kix-line-break"></span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">This one is funny, both in words and in meaning. I wish I had one. One point! -Elliott</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br class="gmail-kix-line-break"></span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Rube Goldberg award -David</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:15pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:15pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">emberlucock (n.) a visual disturbance in which one hallucinates birds.</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br class="gmail-kix-line-break"></span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">By Pierre, 1 point</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br class="gmail-kix-line-break"></span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">1 pt (David)</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br class="gmail-kix-line-break"></span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Naah, this is just called "bird-watching" (says the bird-watcher) -Hutch</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br class="gmail-kix-line-break"></span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Somehow not plausible. "Visual disturbance"? -Elliott</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:15pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:15pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">emberlucock (n.) corruption of ambrecoq. An early French cannon. Used heavily during the Siege of Barcelona when Louis XI sold weapons to both sides of the Catalan Civil War.</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br class="gmail-kix-line-break"></span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">By Nick, 11 points and the WINNER!</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br class="gmail-kix-line-break"></span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">1 pt (Ranjit)</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br class="gmail-kix-line-break"></span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">1 pt (Linda)</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br class="gmail-kix-line-break"></span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">1 pt (Hutch)</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br class="gmail-kix-line-break"></span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">2 pts (Pierre)</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br class="gmail-kix-line-break"></span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">2 pts (Jean-Joseph)</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br class="gmail-kix-line-break"></span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">2 pts (Elliott)</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br class="gmail-kix-line-break"></span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">2 pts (correct guess)</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br class="gmail-kix-line-break"></span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Well, I think the period is about right. That is, Louis XI was around during ONE of the Catalonian Civil Wars, during which Barcelona was besieged about every three to six months: 1 point -Hutch</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br class="gmail-kix-line-break"></span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Maybe. Never heard of the Siege of Barcelona or the Catalan Civil War, and the Louises have been known to skip numbers (I'm looking at you, XVII), so I can't even be sure that the existence of Louis XIV implies the existence of Louis XI. If I vote for this one, am I endorsing the pollution of the national mind with fake news? What the hell, it helps my side and makes me feel good about myself. Two points! -Elliott</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">emberlucock (n.) a boot or gauntlet molded from rigid resin directly onto the foot or hand that cannot be removed without destroying it. Most often used for single-use armor, occasionally in fashion applications.</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br class="gmail-kix-line-break"></span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">By Jean-Joseph, no points</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br class="gmail-kix-line-break"></span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Without destroying the boot or gauntlet, or without destroying the foot or hand? -Pierre</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br class="gmail-kix-line-break"></span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">I have a distinct recollection of J-J talking about this concept once or twice, so I suspect him on this one. Somehow it seems like trying to make a boot or glove rigid would defeat one of the purposes of boots and gloves: namely, being able to MOVE. -Hutch</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Ha ha, like in Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs! -Fran</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">When I was a kid I read about ... someone in early Spanish America, I think people in the Inca empire, doing this with latex to make running shoes. But for armor? How do you reconcile ``can't be pierced or smashed'' with ``can be removed''? -Elliott</span></p><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">emberluckock (v.r.) 1. to become trapped in a waistcoat by eating so much that the buttons cannot be unfastened. 2. to unwittingly take up a responsibility that cannot easily be got rid of.
By Elliott</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br class="gmail-kix-line-break"></span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">2 pts (Ranjit)</span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br class="gmail-kix-line-break"></span><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">I ate so much this Thanksgiving I emberlucocked. Had to cut the buttons off. True story! -Hutch</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">This must happen sometimes to hobbits and Gilded Age robber barons. -Elliott</span></p><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">And a silly def: emberlucock, n. A secret fire-type Pokémon unlockable only at the South Pole.
By Nick</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">I don't get it.... -Elliott</span></p><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Other comments:</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">I really like the smoldering cuckoo clock and being trapped in a waistcoat [as recently as T-Day], but the rigid boots are too much for this non-fashionista. -Linda</span></p><div dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><br></div><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">To be honest, I'm having a hard time accepting that this is actually a real word AT ALL!!!!! -Hutch</span></p><div><span style="font-size:16px;font-family:arial;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap"><br></span></div></span><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"><i>Fran Poodry</i></div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"><i>Oregon, USA</i></div><div style="font-family:arial;font-size:small"><i><br></i></div><div style="font-size:small"><i><font face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"><span style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-size:14px;line-height:18px">“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.” </span><br style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-size:14px;line-height:18px"><span style="color:rgb(24,24,24);font-size:14px;line-height:18px">― </span><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/61107.Margaret_Mead" style="color:rgb(102,102,0);text-decoration:none;font-size:14px;line-height:18px" target="_blank">Margaret Mead</a></font><br></i></div></div></div></div></div>
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