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Old September 9th, 2020, 04:08 AM
Tim Lodge
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Default [Dixonary] Round 3103 WOOFITS Defs- Vote Now!

You've all excelled yourselves with your defs for this round, both in
quantity and quality. Here we have 16 inventive defs of the word WOOFITS,
only one of which came from my dictionary. Please vote for your two
favourites by public reply to this message before the deadline, which is:

18:00 BST on Thursday 1oth September in London
19:00 CET in Amsterdam
17:00 GMT/UTC
1:00 PM EDT in New York
10:00 AM PDT in California
05:00 NZST on Friday in New Zealand

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

-- Tim L

*** WOOFITS ***

1. nausea. [Obs.]

2. [Scot.] Freckles.

3. hiccups [NW Engl dialect]

4. something annoying or pointless.

5. a diurnal rodent of the Caucasus, now extinct.

6. an unwell feeling, esp. in the head; moody depression.

7. in cartoons, lines emanating from a dog's mouth to indicate barking,

8. the fabric lining sewed into caskets including the pillow sash and
valance.

9. the threads that run crosswise in a woven fabric at right angles to
the warp threads; weft.

10. random colour changes in the wool used for the weft in weaving ; adj
for the resulting cloth.

11. the name given by Lady Dilworth to her pet Pomeranian in Amanda
McKittrick Ros’ novel Delina Delaney.

12. hooks on the ankle of an ice skate that allow for precise tightening
of the laces to provide stability.

13. in computer hacking, the number of bits saved through "elegant
programming" ["TMRC Hackers Dictionary" 1964]

14. whimsical tools, such as a saw that uncuts trees and a drill that
fills holes, found in a children's book "The Very Strange Day" by Stuart
McLaughlin (1940).

15. in *singular* and *plural*. Frequently with *the*. A fit of
depression, *esp*. one caused by a hangover (chiefly *S. Afr*.). Often in *the
dreaded woofits*. Also, formerly: a type of dance.

16. bonuses applied to a salesperson's regular commission as an incentive
for enrolling the customer in a subscription-based service, such as an
antivirus, insurance, or replacement plan for consumer electronics.


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