[Dixonary] Round 2840 PUCKFOISTED Defs - Vote Now!

Here we have 13 carefully crafted defs, all bar one of which are the
product of your fevered imaginations. Please vote for your two favourites
by public reply to this message before the deadline of:

18:00 UTC/GMT on Saturday 7th October
19:00 BST
20:00 noon CET
2:00 PM EST
11:00 AM PST
04:00 AEDT on Sunday in Melbourne
06:00 NZDT on Sunday in New Zealand

-- Tim L

*** PUCKFOISTED ***

1. crazy or foolish.

2. unfinished or immature.

3. left at the altar; unlucky in love.

4. having an undeserved bad reputation.

5. inclined to drink; addicted to tippling.

6. _Eng. regional. Rare._ cheated by a demon, bewitched.

7. to be forced into an undesired position; originally
theatrical.

8. a botanic term for a plant with both opposite and alternate
leaves.

9. delayed action needed to solve a problem until the problem
was resolved by other means.

10. condemned for a scandal which later turns out to have been
perpetrated by someone else.

11. a sailor's term describing an order that is poorly thought out
and/or dangerous, said to avoid swearing in the presence of an officer.

12. _Law_ descriptive of evidence that is presented because the
legal team believes it will force or encourage the other side to make a
critical error.

13. hallucinations manifested by drunken behaviour caused by
inhaling the smoky vapour from the release of spores from a puffball. [from
_puckfist_ a West Country regional name for a puffball]

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3. left at the altar; unlucky in love.
10. condemned for a scandal which later turns out to have been perpetrated by someone else.

Judy Madnick
Albany, NY

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4 and 11, please.

Best wishes,
Tim Bourne.

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I'll go for 3 and 11.


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3 & 6 will serve nicely as my votes this round.
Cheerio
-Keith-

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I vote for 4 and 9.


Guerri
On 10/6/2017 5:52 AM, Tim Lodge wrote:
> 4. having an undeserved bad reputation.
> 9. delayed action needed to solve a problem until the problem was
> resolved by other means.

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I'll try 6 and 7.

Efrem

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> On Oct 6, 2017, at 5:52 AM, Tim Lodge <dix (AT) timlodge (DOT) co.uk> wrote:
>
> Here we have 13 carefully crafted defs, all bar one of which are the product of your fevered imaginations. Please vote for your two favourites by public reply to this message before the deadline of:
>
> 18:00 UTC/GMT on Saturday 7th October
> 19:00 BST
> 20:00 noon CET
> 2:00 PM EST
> 11:00 AM PST
> 04:00 AEDT on Sunday in Melbourne
> 06:00 NZDT on Sunday in New Zealand
>
> -- Tim L
>
> *** PUCKFOISTED ***
>
> 6. _Eng. regional. Rare._ cheated by a demon, bewitched.
>
> 7. to be forced into an undesired position; originally theatrical.
>

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6 and 7 please.


> 6. _Eng. regional. Rare._ cheated by a demon, bewitched.
>
> 7. to be forced into an undesired position; originally
> theatrical.
>
>
>

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11 for the nautical reference and 13 because I didn’t find anything else I liked before the end of the list.Â* And it’s creative as heck, even if the wrong part of speech.



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I'll try the popular #7 and the unpopular #1.



On 6/10/2017 10:52 PM, "Tim Lodge" <dix (AT) timlodge (DOT) co.uk> wrote:

> Here we have 13 carefully crafted defs, all bar one of which are the
> product of your fevered imaginations. Please vote for your two favourites
> by public reply to this message before the deadline of:
>
> 18:00 UTC/GMT on Saturday 7th October
> 19:00 BST
> 20:00 noon CET
> 2:00 PM EST
> 11:00 AM PST
> 04:00 AEDT on Sunday in Melbourne
> 06:00 NZDT on Sunday in New Zealand
>
> -- Tim L
>
> *** PUCKFOISTED ***
>
> 1. crazy or foolish.
>
> 2. unfinished or immature.
>
> 3. left at the altar; unlucky in love.
>
> 4. having an undeserved bad reputation.
>
> 5. inclined to drink; addicted to tippling.
>
> 6. _Eng. regional. Rare._ cheated by a demon, bewitched.
>
> 7. to be forced into an undesired position; originally
> theatrical.
>
> 8. a botanic term for a plant with both opposite and alternate
> leaves.
>
> 9. delayed action needed to solve a problem until the problem
> was resolved by other means.
>
> 10. condemned for a scandal which later turns out to have been
> perpetrated by someone else.
>
> 11. a sailor's term describing an order that is poorly thought
> out and/or dangerous, said to avoid swearing in the presence of an officer.
>
> 12. _Law_ descriptive of evidence that is presented because the
> legal team believes it will force or encourage the other side to make a
> critical error.
>
> 13. hallucinations manifested by drunken behaviour caused by
> inhaling the smoky vapour from the release of spores from a puffball. [from
> _puckfist_ a West Country regional name for a puffball]
>
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