[Dixonary] Round 3154 PLUNKET Defs - Vote Now!

Here we have 12 imaginative defs of the word PLUNKET, only one of which
comes from my dictionary. Please vote for your two favourites by public
reply to this message before the deadline, which is:

20:00 UTC/GMT on Tuesday 30th March
21:00 BST in London
22:00 CET in France and the Netherlands
4:00 PM EST in New York
1:00 PM PST in California
09:00 NZDT on Wednesday 31st in New Zealand

New players are welcome - just don't look up the word until after you've
voted.

-- Tim L

*** PLUNKET ***

1. a child's comfort blanket.
2. the weight on a fishing line
3. an unpromising, silly, or useless person.
4. a variety of brine-cured Canadian cheese.
5. [Obs.] a sparkling white wine [< F _*blanquette*_]
6. [Thieves Cant] a false coin or slug ( Fr. _*planchet*_]
7. (Naut.) a tackle composed of two single blocks and a fall.
8. a light greyish-blue colour; a dye of this colour. *_Obsolete*._
9. a traditional children's dessert, probably similar to the "curds
and whey" of the old nursery rhyme.
10. A heavily embroidered double-breasted waistcoat, popularised by the
Regency era dandy Lord Plunket.
11. (Western U.S. slang) a particularly large gambling bet; poss. der.
from the sound of a large gold coin or nugget hitting the table.
12. A distance equal to exactly 5 feet 9-1/2 inches, created in 1959
when Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity members at Harvard decided to use pledge
Thomas Plunket as a unit of measurement in response to MIT's creation of
the "smoot" the previous year, which used the height of Oliver Smoot (class
of 1962) to measure the length of a bridge.

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#9 and #12 for me please
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3 & 8 for me.

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6. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; [Thieves Cant] a false coin or slug ( Fr. _planchet_]



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11. &nbsp; &nbsp; (Western U.S. slang) a particularly large gambling bet; poss. der. from the sound of a large gold coin or nugget hitting the table.&nbsp;&nbsp;



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It may be childish of me, but I'll vote for 1 and 9.

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1 and 12

On Mon, Mar 29, 2021, 6:09 AM Tim Lodge <dix (AT) timlodge (DOT) co.uk> wrote:

> Here we have 12 imaginative defs of the word PLUNKET, only one of which
> comes from my dictionary. Please vote for your two favourites by public
> reply to this message before the deadline, which is:
>
> 20:00 UTC/GMT on Tuesday 30th March
> 21:00 BST in London
> 22:00 CET in France and the Netherlands
> 4:00 PM EST in New York
> 1:00 PM PST in California
> 09:00 NZDT on Wednesday 31st in New Zealand
>
> New players are welcome - just don't look up the word until after you've
> voted.
>
> -- Tim L
>
> *** PLUNKET ***
>
> 1. a child's comfort blanket.
> 2. the weight on a fishing line
> 3. an unpromising, silly, or useless person.
> 4. a variety of brine-cured Canadian cheese.
> 5. [Obs.] a sparkling white wine [< F _*blanquette*_]
> 6. [Thieves Cant] a false coin or slug ( Fr. _*planchet*_]
> 7. (Naut.) a tackle composed of two single blocks and a fall.
> 8. a light greyish-blue colour; a dye of this colour. *_Obsolete*._
> 9. a traditional children's dessert, probably similar to the "curds
> and whey" of the old nursery rhyme.
> 10. A heavily embroidered double-breasted waistcoat, popularised by
> the Regency era dandy Lord Plunket.
> 11. (Western U.S. slang) a particularly large gambling bet; poss. der.
> from the sound of a large gold coin or nugget hitting the table.
> 12. A distance equal to exactly 5 feet 9-1/2 inches, created in 1959
> when Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity members at Harvard decided to use pledge
> Thomas Plunket as a unit of measurement in response to MIT's creation of
> the "smoot" the previous year, which used the height of Oliver Smoot (class
> of 1962) to measure the length of a bridge.
>
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3 and 4, please.

Best wishes,
Tim Bourne.

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Tim – for no particular reason, I’ll go with 2 and 9.

Alan



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Sent: Monday, March 29, 2021 6:09 AM
To: Dixonary <dixonary (AT) googlegroups (DOT) com>
Subject: [Dixonary] Round 3154 PLUNKET Defs - Vote Now!



Here we have 12 imaginative defs of the word PLUNKET, only one of which comes from my dictionary. Please vote for your two favourites by public reply to this message before the deadline, which is:

20:00 UTC/GMT on Tuesday 30th March
21:00 BST in London
22:00 CET in France and the Netherlands
4:00 PM EST in New York
1:00 PM PST in California
09:00 NZDT on Wednesday 31st in New Zealand



New players are welcome - just don't look up the word until after you've voted.


-- Tim L

*** PLUNKET ***

1. a child's comfort blanket.
2. the weight on a fishing line
3. an unpromising, silly, or useless person.
4. a variety of brine-cured Canadian cheese.
5. [Obs.] a sparkling white wine [< F _blanquette_]
6. [Thieves Cant] a false coin or slug ( Fr. _planchet_]
7. (Naut.) a tackle composed of two single blocks and a fall.
8. a light greyish-blue colour; a dye of this colour. _Obsolete._
9. a traditional children's dessert, probably similar to the "curds and whey" of the old nursery rhyme.
10. A heavily embroidered double-breasted waistcoat, popularised by the Regency era dandy Lord Plunket.
11. (Western U.S. slang) a particularly large gambling bet; poss. der. from the sound of a large gold coin or nugget hitting the table.
12. A distance equal to exactly 5 feet 9-1/2 inches, created in 1959 when Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity members at Harvard decided to use pledge Thomas Plunket as a unit of measurement in response to MIT's creation of the "smoot" the previous year, which used the height of Oliver Smoot (class of 1962) to measure the length of a bridge.

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6 & 11 for me.



On Mon, 29 Mar 2021, 11:09 PM Tim Lodge, <dix (AT) timlodge (DOT) co.uk> wrote:

> Here we have 12 imaginative defs of the word PLUNKET, only one of which
> comes from my dictionary. Please vote for your two favourites by public
> reply to this message before the deadline, which is:
>
> 20:00 UTC/GMT on Tuesday 30th March
> 21:00 BST in London
> 22:00 CET in France and the Netherlands
> 4:00 PM EST in New York
> 1:00 PM PST in California
> 09:00 NZDT on Wednesday 31st in New Zealand
>
> New players are welcome - just don't look up the word until after you've
> voted.
>
> -- Tim L
>
> *** PLUNKET ***
>
> 1. a child's comfort blanket.
> 2. the weight on a fishing line
> 3. an unpromising, silly, or useless person.
> 4. a variety of brine-cured Canadian cheese.
> 5. [Obs.] a sparkling white wine [< F _*blanquette*_]
> 6. [Thieves Cant] a false coin or slug ( Fr. _*planchet*_]
> 7. (Naut.) a tackle composed of two single blocks and a fall.
> 8. a light greyish-blue colour; a dye of this colour. *_Obsolete*._
> 9. a traditional children's dessert, probably similar to the "curds
> and whey" of the old nursery rhyme.
> 10. A heavily embroidered double-breasted waistcoat, popularised by
> the Regency era dandy Lord Plunket.
> 11. (Western U.S. slang) a particularly large gambling bet; poss. der.
> from the sound of a large gold coin or nugget hitting the table.
> 12. A distance equal to exactly 5 feet 9-1/2 inches, created in 1959
> when Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity members at Harvard decided to use pledge
> Thomas Plunket as a unit of measurement in response to MIT's creation of
> the "smoot" the previous year, which used the height of Oliver Smoot (class
> of 1962) to measure the length of a bridge.
>
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I’ll have some wine and cheese, please.



4 and 5.



From: Dixonary <dixonary (AT) googlegroups (DOT) com> on behalf of Tim Lodge <dix (AT) timlodge (DOT) co.uk>
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Date: Monday, March 29, 2021 at 3:09 AM
To: Dixonary <dixonary (AT) googlegroups (DOT) com>
Subject: [Dixonary] Round 3154 PLUNKET Defs - Vote Now!



Here we have 12 imaginative defs of the word PLUNKET, only one of which comes from my dictionary. Please vote for your two favourites by public reply to this message before the deadline, which is:

20:00 UTC/GMT on Tuesday 30th March
21:00 BST in London
22:00 CET in France and the Netherlands
4:00 PM EST in New York
1:00 PM PST in California
09:00 NZDT on Wednesday 31st in New Zealand



New players are welcome - just don't look up the word until after you've voted.


-- Tim L

*** PLUNKET ***

1. a child's comfort blanket.
2. the weight on a fishing line
3. an unpromising, silly, or useless person.
4. a variety of brine-cured Canadian cheese.
5. [Obs.] a sparkling white wine [< F _blanquette_]
6. [Thieves Cant] a false coin or slug ( Fr. _planchet_]
7. (Naut.) a tackle composed of two single blocks and a fall.
8. a light greyish-blue colour; a dye of this colour. _Obsolete._
9. a traditional children's dessert, probably similar to the "curds and whey" of the old nursery rhyme.
10. A heavily embroidered double-breasted waistcoat, popularised by the Regency era dandy Lord Plunket.
11. (Western U.S. slang) a particularly large gambling bet; poss. der. from the sound of a large gold coin or nugget hitting the table.
12. A distance equal to exactly 5 feet 9-1/2 inches, created in 1959 when Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity members at Harvard decided to use pledge Thomas Plunket as a unit of measurement in response to MIT's creation of the "smoot" the previous year, which used the height of Oliver Smoot (class of 1962) to measure the length of a bridge.

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I'll take 10 and 12, the latter for creativity:


> 10. A heavily embroidered double-breasted waistcoat, popularised by the
> Regency era dandy Lord Plunket.

> 12. A distance equal to exactly 5 feet 9-1/2 inches, created in 1959
> when Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity members at Harvard decided to use pledge
> Thomas Plunket as a unit of measurement in response to MIT's creation of
> the "smoot" the previous year, which used the height of Oliver Smoot (class
> of 1962) to measure the length of a bridge.

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I'll go with the French: 5 and 6, please.

Efrem

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> On Mar 29, 2021, at 6:09 AM, Tim Lodge <dix (AT) timlodge (DOT) co.uk> wrote:
>
> Here we have 12 imaginative defs of the word PLUNKET, only one of which comes from my dictionary. Please vote for your two favourites by public reply to this message before the deadline, which is:
>
> 20:00 UTC/GMT on Tuesday 30th March
> 21:00 BST in London
> 22:00 CET in France and the Netherlands
> 4:00 PM EST in New York
> 1:00 PM PST in California
> 09:00 NZDT on Wednesday 31st in New Zealand
>
> New players are welcome - just don't look up the word until after you've voted.
>
> -- Tim L
>
> *** PLUNKET ***
>
> 5. [Obs.] a sparkling white wine [< F _blanquette_]
>
> 6. [Thieves Cant] a false coin or slug ( Fr. _planchet_]

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