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Grex > Language > #128: The seven letter word game, 5th edition |   |
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aruba
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response 500 of 1031:
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Jun 7 22:41 UTC 2004 |
dubious
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prp
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response 501 of 1031:
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Jun 7 23:50 UTC 2004 |
vacancy
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kentn
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response 502 of 1031:
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Jun 8 04:00 UTC 2004 |
cowbind 4 (albaugh)
clinker 0 (gelinas)
dubious 0 (aruba)
vacancy 0 (prp)
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aruba
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response 503 of 1031:
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Jun 8 04:18 UTC 2004 |
jousted
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prp
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response 504 of 1031:
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Jun 8 18:33 UTC 2004 |
watches
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albaugh
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response 505 of 1031:
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Jun 8 21:39 UTC 2004 |
cowhand
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gelinas
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response 506 of 1031:
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Jun 8 21:59 UTC 2004 |
grander
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prp
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response 507 of 1031:
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Jun 9 17:09 UTC 2004 |
mystery
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kentn
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response 508 of 1031:
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Jun 10 01:37 UTC 2004 |
jousted 2 (aruba)
watches 1 (prp)
cowhand 2 (albaugh)
grander 0 (gelinas)
mystery 2 (prp)
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gelinas
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response 509 of 1031:
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Jun 10 02:27 UTC 2004 |
Hmm... I don't feel like trying to construct a proof, so I'll provide a
citation for
wosbird
Ballad of the Scouring of the White Horse
The owld White Horse wants zettin to rights
And the Squire hev promised good cheer,
Zo we'll gee un a scrape to kip un in zhape,
And a'll last for many a year.
A was made a lang lang time ago
Wi a good dale o' labour and pains,
By King Alfred the Great when he spwiled their consate
And caddled they wosbirds the Danes.
The Bleawin Stwun in days gone by
Wur King Alfred's bugle harn,
And the tharning tree you may plainly zee
As is called King Alfred's tharn.
There'll be backsword play, and climmin the powl,
And a race for a peg and a cheese,
And us thenks as hisn's a dummel zowl
As dwont care for zich spwoorts as theze!
note....
"caddled", to worry, "wosbird" a bad omen - a bird of woe, the "Bleawin
Stwun" the Blowing Stone and "dummel zowl" was dumb or stupid.
http://www.go-berkshire.co.uk/white%20horse.htm
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prp
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response 510 of 1031:
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Jun 10 21:34 UTC 2004 |
younger
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kentn
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response 511 of 1031:
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Jun 11 03:30 UTC 2004 |
__farrago 0 (The Previous Word)
prevent 0 (gelinas)
referee 0 (aruba)
__umpires 0 (albaugh)
ascribe 1 (gelinas)
scribes 0 (albaugh)
elastic 0 (aruba)
__slipped 1 (prp)
bananas 0 (aruba)
fruited 1 (albaugh)
__airport 1 (prp)
android 1 (gelinas)
__frowned 1 (aruba)
adipose 0 (gelinas)
sputter 0 (aruba)
__putters 1 (albaugh)
cowbird 5 (prp)
limpets 0 (gelinas)
__fishing 2 (albaugh)
fistula 1 (gelinas)
__gosling 3 (aruba)
cowgirl 3 (albaugh)
eschews 0 (prp)
__haggler 0 (aruba)
coshing 3 (gelinas)
__costing 3 (albaugh)
__canters 1 (gelinas)
cowbind 4 (albaugh)
clinker 0 (gelinas)
dubious 0 (aruba)
__vacancy 0 (prp)
jousted 2 (aruba)
watches 1 (prp)
cowhand 2 (albaugh)
grander 0 (gelinas)
__mystery 2 (prp)
wosbird 7 (gelinas) ---> Ding! Ding! Ding! Winner!
__younger 1 (prp)
You're word again, Joe.
In the OED 2d ed, another definition is:
wosbird
wosbird, dial. var. whore's bird (whore sb. 3).
whore's bird (also as one word, and dial. wosbird): properly, the
child see bird sb. 1 c of a whore, a bastard; but usually as a mere
vulgar term of abuse or reprobation. So whore's kitling.
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gelinas
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response 512 of 1031:
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Jun 14 09:34 UTC 2004 |
Hmm... That definition works better in the poem than the one offered
in the note: "King Alfred the Great when he spwiled their consate/And
caddled they [whoresons] the Danes."
So I'm thinking of a seven-letter word that is not
wosbird 0 (lastword)
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kentn
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response 513 of 1031:
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Jun 14 11:24 UTC 2004 |
unearth
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aruba
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response 514 of 1031:
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Jun 14 13:33 UTC 2004 |
referee
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gelinas
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response 515 of 1031:
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Jun 14 14:16 UTC 2004 |
unearth 1 (kentn)
referee 0 (aruba)
------- 0 (---)
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blaise
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response 516 of 1031:
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Jun 14 15:18 UTC 2004 |
informs
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gelinas
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response 517 of 1031:
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Jun 14 15:25 UTC 2004 |
informs 0 (blaise)
------- 0 (---)
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kentn
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response 518 of 1031:
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Jun 15 03:27 UTC 2004 |
vacancy
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gelinas
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response 519 of 1031:
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Jun 15 03:36 UTC 2004 |
vacancy 0 (kentn)
------- 0 (---)
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blaise
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response 520 of 1031:
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Jun 15 13:20 UTC 2004 |
breathe
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albaugh
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response 521 of 1031:
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Jun 15 15:12 UTC 2004 |
airhead
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prp
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response 522 of 1031:
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Jun 15 20:15 UTC 2004 |
seventh
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aruba
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response 523 of 1031:
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Jun 15 21:51 UTC 2004 |
element
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gelinas
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response 524 of 1031:
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Jun 16 03:34 UTC 2004 |
breathe 1 (blaise)
airhead 2 (albaugh)
seventh 0 (prp)
element 1 (aruba)
------- 0 (---)
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