Hello everyone! Well not everyone, just those reading this, well I guess those that aren�t reading this too but someone�s going to have to go tell them. It is time to choose the winner of the WOD. After deliberating with the Great and Wondrous Oz, I�ve chosen... well before that I would like to say sal�d, cheers, saude, skaal, prost, fisehatak, sant�, l�chaim, yung sing, kampai, proost, to all my friends and if there�s a language that�s been left out please feel free to add yours on. The winner is Magneto with this daffynition:
I believe it�s a misspelled compound noun used to describe a gambling rhinoceros...The correct word is obviously gambrhinus, but someone spelled it gambrinous, leaving out the h and adding an o to the original Latin suffix �us...Tut, tut, tut.
I just like the imagery of a rhinoceros (preposterous) playing Texas Hold �em. Why she had to mention the Egyptian boy-King at the end is beyond me.
According to Wiktionary:
The origins of the word are probably from King Gambrius a legendary king of Flanders and the unofficial patron saint of beer and beer brewing.
Gambriuos is an adjective:
drunk; or full of beer
So our Czech friends were not far off. BTW my mission this weekend will be to find a cold, crisp bottle of Gambrinus.