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"Word of the Day"

ldthemagicman

"Word of the Day"

яПНClapperdudgeonяПН

I arrive home, to discover that IяПНve won яПНWord of the DayяПН. Thank you, very much indeed!

яПНClapperdudgeonяПН is the яПНWordяПН, for the remainder of Thursday and all of Friday.

What do you think that it means?

Try to define its meaning in the wittiest, most comical, or most stupid way. If you know what it means, donяПНt tell us, please, but give us a silly definition of it, instead.

Remember, NO INTERNET, NO DICTIONARY DEFINITIONS яПН just ideas from your head!

Here are the previous submissions.

http://www.eslprintables.com/forum/topic.asp?id=23761

The Member announced with the best definition WILL CHOOSE SATURDAYяПНS WORD. (If you donяПНt want to choose a Word, let the Forum know, please.)

The Winner will be announced on Friday, at Midnight, Spanish Time.

The яПНWordяПН is яПНCLAPPERDUDGEONяПН.

Good Luck!

Les

28 Oct 2010

franknbea

Hoo!Hoo!

I think I know this one!

Clapper= short for clapperboard

Dudgeon=mis-spelling of Dungeon

CLAPPERDUNGEON= The place where they put Melissa Wilkes after she Mis-pronounced

"Grand-Prix" as "Grand-Pricks" on Live Saturday morning children яПНs TV.

28 Oct 2010

cauffeepot

the room they make you stay in after you яПНve caught a "social disease". Where people with really lousy seats in an auditorium applaud at the end of the show?

29 Oct 2010

Laly59

My definition:

Clap, to produce sounds with the hands

per=for

dudgeon= like dungeon, for that

clapperdudgeon= who claps for to be inside a dungeon

29 Oct 2010

Apodo

A clapper is the part of a bell that moves inside to make the noise.

High dudgeon is a feeling of anger, being indignant.

clapperdudgeon is what a campanologist feels when the bell ringing practice goes wrong, there are wrong notes, but it isn яПНt his fault.

29 Oct 2010

arlissa

Clapper - a musical instrument that operates by the quick clapping of two pieces of wood together
Dud - something that doesn яПНt work
Geon - An alternative spelling of the proper name "John"

So therefore, clapperdudgeon is a non-working musical instrument made by John...possibly the childish makings of a young John Dopyera, whose other musical inventions led to the invention of the electrical guitar.

29 Oct 2010

David Lisgo

It is a mathematical term which is used to refer to silent thunder, a very rare phenomenon, which occurs only a small number of times in any geological period. Mathematicians have estimated that only 17 clapperdudgeons occured during the whole of the Jurassic period. How they worked that out, I have no idea but then I am just an English teacher, which means I can tell you more about why it is called a "clapperdudgeon" in the first place.

clap: a clap of thunder

per: every

dud: something that fails to explode

g: geological

eon: a long period of time

29 Oct 2010