WINNER ANNOUNCED!! Word of the Week Comp #39

[MoeFOH]

Some slight tweaks to the comp for 2020... 

Every week we're going to have a poll about the definition of a forgotten or obscure word. From the four options pick the definition you believe to be the correct one. Voters who pick the correct definition go into the draw for an El Pres Sampler!!   (Drawn Tuesday morning, Brisbane time. Please note: Polls don't show on Tapatalk, but you can participate via a web version of the site)

NO GOOGLING OR DICTIONARY USE! We're using the honour system. It's just a bit of fun. If you know, you know. If you don't, have a stab in the dark or an educated guess (if you prefer that term). 

You may elaborate about your choice in the topic thread below if you wish but no posting of any official definitions, etc., that will give away the game for others. 

Now you know the drill, vote away!  Good luck and may this comp prove to be a fun palaestra that turns us all into better word-grubbers, if you know what I mean...

[Chibearsv]

I don’t really know why but I think I’ve got this one. Correction, missed

Edited June 17, 2020 by Chibearsv

[Rabbi]

SWAG

 

[captaincaveman]

Choice #5

A Beastie Boys song on Paul’s Boutique.

[Fuzz]

You know Steve, you ain't making it easy to use in a sentence, let alone create a credible story.

 

 

[SirVantes]

7 hours ago, Fuzz said:

You know Steve, you ain't making it easy to use in a sentence, let alone create a credible story.

 

 

Meshach woke with a start, unsure whether he was sweating from being too close to the glowing brazier or the terror of the rickety, illegal structure falling down around him in his sleep. He groped instinctively for the carton holding his vast collection of hats; he was going to need at least 3 of them for the scam he must pull off if he is to have drinking money on Friday. Such is the reality of a shadrach. 

[Fuzz]

45 minutes ago, SirVantes said:

Meshach woke with a start, unsure whether he was sweating from being too close to the glowing brazier or the terror of the rickety, illegal structure falling down around him in his sleep. He groped instinctively for the carton holding his vast collection of hats; he was going to need at least 3 of them for the scam he must pull off if he is to to have drinking money on Friday. Such is the reality of a shadrach. 

Ah! But you only used the word once in the whole story. You must use the word once for each definition.

[SirVantes]

5 hours ago, Fuzz said:

Ah! But you only used the word once in the whole story. You must use the word once for each definition.

Ah, I see, that is harder.

Meshach woke with a start, unsure whether he was sweating from having assumed a shadrach's position too close to the glowing brazier, or from every shadrach's terror of the rickety, illegal structure he was living in falling down around him in his sleep. He groped instinctively for the carton holding his vast collection of hats.  He owned them, wore them and loved them because he was a shadrach at heart, but they were also his tools.  He was going to need at least 3 of them for what he must pull off if he is to have drinking money on Friday. A good shadrach works twice as hard for the income that the taxman knows nothing about, but that income from a well-executed confidence scam is twice as sweet.  First though, a Partagas Short and a stiff coffee to settle into the morning.

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Edited June 18, 2020 by SirVantes

[Fuzz]

Better, better. Now do it in the order presented in the poll....

 

[SirVantes]

So then:

Meshach woke with a start, and groped instinctively for his carton of hats.  A true shadrach, he could wear a different one every day of the month, and still have more than a few to spare.  In fact, he had worn a fedora to bed, in a kind of valediction to the confidence scam that had gone so well the previous evening, filling his pockets with that which the taxman need never know anything about - a shadrach's sweet alternate income.  Rubbing the sleep from his eyes, he felt the usual relief that the rickety, illegal structure he was living in had not collapsed on him in the night, turning him into another shadrach casualty.  This morning though, the sun seemed particularly fiery, blazing through the hole in the roof, and Meshach thought, "I am become a shadrach, Icarus-like, too close to the heat."    

[Fuzz]

That's the ticket!!

 

[LLC]

What I usually think is almost always wrong so I went with what I thought the least likely was. 

[Ken Gargett]

no idea but i went heat because shadrack was some old god or old testament pain in the proverbial who got tossed into the fires of hell or something like it. only reason i have any clue about this is because grant burge makes a wine called meshach after his ancestor and then named another shadrack, thanks to the old T link. 

[Fuzz]

5 hours ago, Ken Gargett said:

no idea but i went heat because shadrack was some old god or old testament pain in the proverbial who got tossed into the fires of hell or something like it. only reason i have any clue about this is because grant burge makes a wine called meshach after his ancestor and then named another shadrack, thanks to the old T link. 

Don't forget Grant Burge Abednego Shiraz Grenache.

I have a couple of magnums of the Meshach. May open one in the near future.

[Deeg]

5 hours ago, Ken Gargett said:

no idea but i went heat because shadrack was some old god or old testament pain in the proverbial who got tossed into the fires of hell or something like it. only reason i have any clue about this is because grant burge makes a wine called meshach after his ancestor and then named another shadrack, thanks to the old T link. 

That was my tack as well.

[dobbs]

this is the only one i'm remotely close to getting right, but haven't checked. i remember the old story though...

-dobbs

[MoeFOH]

Closing this off soon - vote now! 

[BuzzArd]

Who knows...  just thinking back to bible school as a youngster...   

 

[MoeFOH]

Wow... don't think I've seen a more even spread across the options! I'll pat myself on the back there for the decoy inventiveness

No.4 it was! Congrats to those who got it right 

The random draw winner was @grizzlee !!

Congrats! 

Please PM your details (name, address, and email) to me @MoeFOH and we'll arrange dispatch of your prize.

Thanks to all who participated. Next word up tomorrow! 

[Raskol]

Congratulations !! 

[Fuzz]

1 hour ago, MoeFOH said:

Wow... don't think I've seen a more even spread across the options! I'll pat myself on the back there for the decoy inventiveness

No.4 it was! Congrats to those who got it right 

The random draw winner was @grizzlee !!

Congrats! 

Please PM your details (name, address, and email) to me @MoeFOH and we'll arrange dispatch of your prize.

Thanks to all who participated. Next word up tomorrow! 

Considering he was tossed into a furnace by King Nebuchadnezzar, along with Meshach and Abednego, I'd say "close to a source of heat" is a little bit of an understatement.

[Goodfortune]

Congrats!

[captaincaveman]

Congrats!

[Chucko8]

Hooray... Congrats!

[Fuzz]

Shadrach also has another definition:

a mass of iron on which the operation of smelting has failed of its intended effect