The Dictionary Game

[xfox]

Abacot - a word that wouldn't count on Words with Friends, but whose counting? Where's Luku?

[lukkucairi]

Abacot: The sinking feeling you get when you realize you haven't judged the DG for over six months.

[funkytuba]

abacot: the act of announcing to a group of assembled friends that you're tired. simply tired.

[Hyakujo's Fox]

abacot (n) a word in scrabble involving all but one of one's tiles with such astoundlingly high scoring potential that one cannot bear to break it up, but which turns out to be unplayable for the remainder of the game.

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

abacot – a formal social dance of French origin in which the male dancer performs intricate sequences of steps, including flapping hands, head dipping, displaying prominent features to their best effect, advertising his suitability as a mate while the female dancer only observes and blushes with either arousal or embarrassment.

[Marcus Bales]

abacot - One who wins The Dictionary Game with a definition excoriating the judge for failing to judge the Game in a timely manner, and then fails, herself, to judge the game in a timely manner.

lukkucairi , for:

knobber: one who does not judge the Dictionary Game in a timely manner.

What the hell, we're all knobbers here.

[lukkucairi]

Judging is being held. Held where? I'll let you use your imagination.

[lukkucairi]

HEAR YE HEAR YE, THE DICTIONARY GAME HAS AT LONG LAST BEEN JUDGED.

The Glutinous Persistence of Granary award to Bales for the following:

abacot - hulled wheat boiled in milk, sometimes with egg yolks beaten in to thicken and color it. Rrye or barley are sometimes substituted for wheat. Variations include the addition of almonds, cream, currants, and sugar to enhance the flavor when served with venison.

abacot - a heritage grain which, along with Triticale, Amaranth, Spelt, Quinoa, Emmer, and Teff are the forbears of modern varieties of wheat.

Abacot - One of the real names of the Seven Dwarves: Abacot, Triticale, Amaranth, Spelt, Quinoa, Emmer, and Teff.

A year's worth of celiac-combating Purple Haze awaits you at your local medical marijuana dispensary.

Brynnie: you're awarded a gold-plated Patient Saint and a gross of votive candles for the following:

abacot - v. to abstain from abstaining; to go ahead and just do it in spite of a strong preference not to.

xfox, I missed you. Thank you for missing me. You win a Red Ryder BB gun and a set of Waterford crystal glasses in order to hone your missing ability to even higher standards:

Abacot An unwritten rule.

Cyndy smugly turned before Obama looked over and quickly uncrossed her eyes, but was nabbed by a Secret Service agent for breaking this abacot.

Abacot - Just the right number of words, not to few, not too many.

Lulu had a knack for keeping company. People just loved her conversation and the ways of her abacot.

Abacot - a word that wouldn't count on Words with Friends, but whose counting? Where's Luku?

MJRS, enjoy your Car Talk brand official Obfuscator. I've never understood a single word you've typed so applying this to your posts may paradoxically alleviate things by raising the noise-to-signal ratio to the level where the human brain begins to spontaneously hallucinate and generate apparent order from seething chaos out of sheer self-preservation. You are a piece of work, congratulations.

Abacot
opposite of tither.
In spite of being proud of her son's big church, Johns
Mother
remained an abacot.

The Bales-Baiting Baton award goes to Ysa. Thank you for a job well done.

abacot - a small bed in a convent for the Abbess's child
figuratively: a bed of shame

Rising from his abacot Marcus wrote a few hexameters for the Daily Chicken Taxidermy and found it satisfying enough to call it another exciting day in the nunnery.

I'm presenting myself with the Procrastination with Extreme Prejudice award, which is a hand of overripe bananas attended by several hundred Drosophila melanogaster. I sincerely hope I've learned my lesson, and by that I mean that I've painstakingly acquired a taste for taking all my beverages with little flies drowning in them.

Abacot: The sinking feeling you get when you realize you haven't judged the DG for over six months.

Funky, have a set of ESP cards and a copy of How To Read Minds In Five Easy Steps for this entry:

abacot: the act of announcing to a group of assembled friends that you're tired. simply tired.

Hfox, you've won the right to challenge xfox to a fox-on-fox game of Words With Friends. Be gentle:

abacot (n) a word in scrabble involving all but one of one's tiles with such astoundlingly high scoring potential that one cannot bear to break it up, but which turns out to be unplayable for the remainder of the game.

AAAAND the GRAND PRIZE goes to...

YSAPUR! She wins worldwide DG recognition, a set of decorative powdered wigs, a half-ton of rouge, a page-boy to fan her brow for her, and six months in which to judge the next round of the Dictionary Game for the following gem:

abacot – a formal social dance of French origin in which the male dancer performs intricate sequences of steps, including flapping hands, head dipping, displaying prominent features to their best effect, advertising his suitability as a mate while the female dancer only observes and blushes with either arousal or embarrassment.

Have fun!

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Oh, and for those who wondered, ABACOT is a word that never actually existed - from a series of mistranscriptions and misprints, from "a bycoket" to "a bicoket" to "abocoket" to "abocoke" to, at last, "abacot". Read more about it here: http://www.worldwidewords.org/weirdwords/ww-aba1.htm

[YsaPur EsChomuw]

thank you, lukku, especially for the generous leeway in judging the upcoming entries for

prognathous

[Marcus Bales]

prognathous - completely packed; entirely filled; an efficient use of space

Although she initially recoiled at his protuberant size, with liberal lubricant and increasing urgency she orgasmed, prognathous with Dinzdale.

[Coffee]

prognathous A prediction of disgust.

A recurrent theme prognathoused a dismal result for the abuser this round.

[funkytuba]

prognathous - the state of being in favor of habitation for small flying insects

At the Combtting Nematocera Homelessness rally, Fizzbus lead the crowd in the cheer "Who Are Us? Pro-Gnat-Hous!"

[Marcus Bales]

prognathous - whiny and annoying

"When are you going to judge the Dictionary Game?" they asked her, prognathously.

[xfox]

prognathous a consequential distinction.

Eli retorted, "It doesn't matter to me what your prognathous is, but it does matter what you do. And I say the glass is half full!"

[Marcus Bales]

prognathous - the opposite of gay

He was trying hard to be festive, but not only his attitude but his seasonal apparel as well was prognathous.