I’m enjoying the Ribble game on Puzzmo
Scores on the doors:
| Date | How long | Words |
| 15th July | 3:44 | 'chow' is "food," originally especially "Chinese food," 1856, American English (originally in California), from Chinese pidgin English chow-chow [Online Etymology ]( [www.etymonline.com/word/chow](https://www.etymonline.com/word/chow) ) |
| 13th July | 12:38 | A couple of words I didn't know and a couple I didn't recognize today. 'Rill' is a rivulet. 'Lien' is a claim on someone's property. 'Linty' is something covered in lint. 'Lain' is a layer or a past tense version of lie |
| 12th July | 3:14 | 'Hew' seems to me to have slightly contradictory meanings. It can be chopping bits off of something, or it can be rigid conformity |
| 11th July | 4:47 | 'Quail' can be a bird, it can be to cower in fear, or it can mean to curdle |
| 10th July | 3:10 | 'Dolt' is "from Middle English dold, a variant of dulled" |
| 9th July | 4:05 | 'Husk' in the sense of shell, or casing possibly comes from the middle English _hus_, meaning little house |
| 8th July | 3:00 | 'Trice' is a nautical word meaning to haul or jerk something, presumably like a sail or an anchor, very quickly. The ordinary usage of 'in a trice', meaning quickly, comes from that |
| 7th July | 3:26 | According to Wikipedia, "During Gerardo Machado's dictatorship in Cuba, Havana citizens were forbidden to dance the conga since rival groups would work themselves to high excitement and start street fights. This was not the case when Fulgencio Batista became president in the 1940s - he permitted people to dance congas during elections, but a police permit was required." |
| 6th July | 4:18 | 'Oaf' is "Variant of awf, aufe,[1] probably from Old Norse álfr (“elf”)". Wiktionary says the plural can be 'oafs' or 'oaves' |
| 5th July | 4:38 | 'Tome' implies a single volume of a larger work, apparently |
| 4th July | 2:08 | |
| 3rd July | 6:49 | 'Fief' is essentially the same as 'feifdom', as far as I can tell |
| 2nd July | 3:30 | 'Lute', as well as being an Olde Worlde guitar, can mean something used to seal joints and stuff - something like putty 9th July update: I learnt via the marvellous Saint Denis show that a 'luthier' is someone that makes and maintains stringed instruments |
| 1st July | 10:37 | 'Owie' is _colloquial, North America, childish_ A painful, usually minor, injury. 'Agar' is "From Malay agar or agar-agar, both meaning jelly" |
| 30th June | 2:55 | 'zinc' is from "German Zink, possibly from Zinke, spike (so called because it becomes jagged in the furnace)". |
| 29th June | 4:05 | 'Tuft' is "Middle English, probably alteration of Old French tofe, from Late Latin tufa, helmet crest" |
| 28th June | 13:10 | 27th June | 7:37 | Tort is the legal thing, and French for 'wrong'. Torte is a cake | 26th June | 6:27 | an octad is "A group or sequence of eight" |
| 25th June | 5:10 | |