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[Dixonary] Rnd 3093 TIB Voting time
The word is TIB
below are the submitted definitions which include the real def from a dictionary; Don'tÂ* look up the word but do vote publicly for 2 defs which tickle your fancy - or maybe seem correct - by 10:00 pm (2200) BST Tuesday 4th August 2020 (and your own times as appropriate (check) CET 2300, East USA 1800, West USA 1400, and Canberra 0700 the next morning Over to you *JohnnyB* 1. a short sometimes humorous piece in a newspaper or magazine usually used as a filler. 2. a shoot; a sprout. [Obs.] 3. [OE]Â*a thief, especially of church relics, a seller of fake relics 4. a coffee bean which fragments during roasting 5. early proposed term for the basic unit of information storage in a quantum computer, discarded in favor of /qubit/ 6. a loose thread or fringe of a garment or cloth 7. to slip out; to escape unobserved from school or house; to break bounds*.* 8. a sprite 9. a shilling 10. a type of medicinal drink used in medieval times, consisting of a herbal tea with a thickening agent to soothe the throat 11. a sailor’s tool for fastening and unfastening shackles 12. an indentation for preventing a bolt head projecting above a surface 13. (Yorks. dialect) a little thing, a trifle (probably from 'bit') 14. A recently-sprouted seedling tree 15. [Newsroom sl.] a secondary headline in a newspaper or magazine article -- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. https://www.avg.com -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Dixonary" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to dixonary+unsubscribe (AT) googlegroups (DOT) com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/di...hn-barrs.co.uk. |