I'm thinking of a word that rhymes with'great'

KeskusteluCrambo!

Liity LibraryThingin jäseneksi, niin voit kirjoittaa viestin.

I'm thinking of a word that rhymes with'great'

Tämä viestiketju on "uinuva" —viimeisin viesti on vanhempi kuin 90 päivää. Ryhmä "virkoaa", kun lähetät vastauksen.

1oldstick
Muokkaaja: tammikuu 31, 2013, 11:03 am

but is not one syllable.

2rodneyvc
tammikuu 31, 2013, 4:28 pm

I'm happy to help increase the speed of guesses.

3rolandperkins
Muokkaaja: helmikuu 1, 2013, 12:16 am

"(more than) one syllable " (1)

__ __ __ __ __ has the Spanish for "to go" as

"Its First" and it also has
An English verb for "consumed" as "its
Second". Can you, from these
bits,
Deduce it?
Guess it or lose it.
Its whole = a word said to have no
Rhyme in English, hence my defining is slow!

4rolandperkins
Muokkaaja: helmikuu 1, 2013, 1:35 am

"ʻIts wholeʻ" - a word said to have no rhyme in English
(3)

Iʻm crazy! the meaning doesnʻt have to rhyme!
So the above, is not worth a dime,
after all! And I should, in fact, define,
So Iʻll say being __ __ __ __ __ is a sign
Of being angry -- or is it-
self = to "angry". Have I hit
On a definition?
If not -- further fishinʻ.

5oldstick
helmikuu 1, 2013, 4:28 am

I don't know Spanish and I'm trying to play without using the internet.
Not accelerate,irate.
Am I doing this correctly,boys?

6rolandperkins
helmikuu 2, 2013, 5:20 am

"Am I doing this correctly, boys?" -- (5)

Yes.

7rodneyvc
helmikuu 3, 2013, 1:00 am

#5 You're doing fine - I think you are adjusting to the situation quite well.

8oldstick
helmikuu 3, 2013, 6:21 am

Is it not too early for a clue?
Not accelerate, irate, accomodate.

9rodneyvc
helmikuu 3, 2013, 3:15 pm

Its really up to you as to when you convey, tell, impart, or relay further information to us.

10rolandperkins
helmikuu 3, 2013, 7:45 pm

IF a quality is in one right from birth,
IT doesnʻt mean that quality is worth
More than an acquired one, but at least we can say
"It is __ __ __ __ __ __."
Pray accept this guess, along with a spate
Of other guesses, still to come, no doubt,
Until someone has figured the Crambo! Word out.

11Jim53
helmikuu 3, 2013, 9:08 pm

I'm afraid I tend to drool when the dinner bell rings.

12rolandperkins
Muokkaaja: helmikuu 5, 2013, 2:58 pm

In Britain and Northern Ireland an "__ __ __ __ __ __" means an undesirable place to live, approximately = to a U. S. "housing project"
In the U. S., it means property in general, especially
property at the time of death,

OR:* a particular piece of property (usually a VERY desireable one).

*I suppose it can have this meaning in Britain, too.

13oldstick
Muokkaaja: helmikuu 4, 2013, 8:54 am

Sorry guys,
Not accelerate,irate,innate,estate or salivate.
Look again at 8.

14Jim53
helmikuu 5, 2013, 2:50 pm

// Looking back at number eight,
// If ain't too early, could the word be "late"?
// But let me hush this useless babble:
// The word has more than one syllable.

New guess: someone did this to three Bohemian Catholic regents a while back, leading to thirty yucky years.

15rolandperkins
Muokkaaja: helmikuu 5, 2013, 3:06 pm

Hyphenated and maybe even TWO
Words is "__ __ __ __ - __ __ __ __ __" Did you
Know Arthur Schlesinger was the first to use this adjectival
Designation for the noted 1948 rival
Of Tom Dewey as, historically, that kind of prez,
He being, as Schlesinger sez,
Just behind the just plain "__ __ __ __ __s", like Lincoln
So that ancient history affected my thinkinʻ,
Even if it hasnʻt been much agreed-
With. Can you follow this lead?

16oldstick
Muokkaaja: helmikuu 6, 2013, 11:05 am

Jim, you didn't think I'd give you the whole word, did you? Was yours decapitate?
Roland, this will take a bit of time - I'll be back later.

17Jim53
helmikuu 7, 2013, 8:46 am

Decapitate is close for #14--right first letter and number of syllables. Think Prague, 1618.

18rolandperkins
helmikuu 7, 2013, 4:29 pm

I might as well admit that
15 was "near-great", now that I see it canʻt be right,
as the Crambo! Word has
4 syllables --assuming 17 is correct.

19Jim53
helmikuu 7, 2013, 5:58 pm

No, Roland, I was just saying that her guess of my word had the correct number of syllables. I think all we know about the Crambo word is that it's more than one syllable, plus the mysterious clue in #8.

20oldstick
helmikuu 8, 2013, 9:33 am

You are right about the number of syllables and if I say it's a verb that's enough clues. I'll come back to yours, Jim. Glad Roland told me what he was thinking. I had lightweight or heavyweight in mind until I checked your spaces!

21oldstick
Muokkaaja: helmikuu 10, 2013, 6:04 am

Time I reprised the wrong guesses, I think.
Not accelerate,irate,accomodate,innate,masticate,salivate,estate..
nor decapitate,discriminate,disseminate, depopulate.
Have I missed out any? I'm not good at the historical references and may feel obliged to use the internet to find the answers - but I won't use any rhyming sites.
Ahh - not defenestrate.

22Jim53
helmikuu 10, 2013, 8:47 pm

I hope we won't have to bully the answer out of you.

(Defenestrate is right for #14. well done)

23oldstick
helmikuu 11, 2013, 6:13 am

If you mean intimidate you aren't applying what was indicated in the clue!#14.

24rodneyvc
helmikuu 11, 2013, 6:47 am

Ironically, or even rashly, the solution yields a solid - is it also the solution?

25Jim53
helmikuu 11, 2013, 3:04 pm

// if you're not part of the solution... //

26oldstick
helmikuu 12, 2013, 9:34 am

First thought was 'speculate' but I'll try again later as that only has three syllables.

27Jim53
helmikuu 12, 2013, 10:19 am

Oh, wow, I thought Rodney surely had it. How about what my car does when I step on the gas?

28oldstick
helmikuu 12, 2013, 11:03 am

Not accelerate,irate, accomodate,innate,masticate,estate,discriminate,disseminate,depopulate,defenestrate, salivate,intimidate or any words that don't end in 'late.'

29Jim53
helmikuu 12, 2013, 11:21 am

We are building up quite a list of guesses.

30oldstick
helmikuu 13, 2013, 5:47 am

And you are getting nearer the meaning, but I am still puzzling over#29. It can't be correlate, too short. Meanwhile, as it is Valentines Day tomorrow I am sending you all an x.

31rodneyvc
helmikuu 13, 2013, 7:40 am

Maybe an idea will come to me if I go for a leisurely walk.

32Jim53
helmikuu 13, 2013, 8:36 am

Re #29, they're just piling up all over the place. It does end in "late," but there's no x involved. Your generous x does remind me of one of my favorite old Calvin and Hobbes strips, where Calvin is doing his math homework.

Calvin: A bushel is four pecks. What's a peck?
Hobbes: A quick smooch.
Calvin: I will never understand math.

33oldstick
Muokkaaja: helmikuu 14, 2013, 4:07 am

I guess it's accumulate. Wrong but a lovely word. Someone once asked foreigners what the most beautiful word in the English language was and I remember it was something with a very mundane meaning but not the actual answer.'Accumulate' must be in the top ten!
You are getting warmer all the time, and that isn't a clue. I'm off out now but I'll come back when I have worked out #31. Got it - perambulate? Sorry, not that either.

34rodneyvc
Muokkaaja: helmikuu 18, 2013, 4:08 pm

I must express my disapproval in the strongest possible terms at the hiatus in Crambo!

// :-) (BTW, I didn't spot that #33 had been updated with the correct answer to #31!)

35Jim53
helmikuu 18, 2013, 8:12 am

On the other hand, seeing it revived gives me a happy feeling of great excitement, as if I were riding a roller coaster.

36rolandperkins
helmikuu 18, 2013, 3:03 pm

Leaving aside the Steinbrenner vs. Martin gyrations of the 1970s,
only 2 ML managers* have ever been__ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ ed
in a job that they previously lost.

*Charley Grimm by Chicago (NL); and Mike Higgins by Boston (AL)

37oldstick
helmikuu 19, 2013, 9:51 am

Not accelerate, irate,accomodate,innate,masticate,estate, discriminate,disseminate, depopulate, defenestrate, accumulate, perambulate, exhilarate or reinstate.( but that doesn't start with 'ex' so it may be wrong.)

38rodneyvc
Muokkaaja: helmikuu 19, 2013, 6:37 pm

#34 was actually a clue, not really me being grumpy!

Please don't infer from my behaviour the nature of the Crambo population as a whole!

39rolandperkins
Muokkaaja: helmikuu 20, 2013, 11:55 am

The old-time managers I mentioned in Number
36 used to (not to encumber
You with too much verbiage), __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
Me by their strategies, but, of late,
I have fondmemories of them, and am still
Glad to hear of them again; I will
Always think of them fondly, fail-
-ures though they sometimes were. Nail
This one, and you've got a Latinate
(and it really does rhyme with "great"
Or at least with the last syll-
-able thereof) verb that is in more common use
Than most tetrayllables. Did I confuse
Anyone with this clue? It means: "irritate",
"Make a bad situation into a fate
Even worse than it already was".
I'm exiting. You can hold the applause.

40oldstick
Muokkaaja: helmikuu 20, 2013, 9:52 am

Now I'm in confusion. You both seem to be suggesting something like infuriate, or maybe exasperate, but I've given you so much help and neither fit the bill! You have the first two and the last four letters, just fill in the middle.
#38 has in it a word that could be part of a correct definition. Can you give me an alternative because I think you may be right?

41rolandperkins
Muokkaaja: helmikuu 20, 2013, 11:54 am

39 -- 40:
"Exasperate" is right, for the guess of 39.

42rodneyvc
Muokkaaja: helmikuu 20, 2013, 2:57 pm

#40 One sense of #38 is to extend the application of a conclusion to an unknown situation by assuming that existing trends will continue or similar methods will be applicable.

#34 also fits your criteria, and means to express strong disapproval or disagreement, but is clearly not the Crambo word.

43oldstick
helmikuu 21, 2013, 5:17 am

I'll give you that, rodney and hope you really had 'extrapolate.'

44rodneyvc
helmikuu 21, 2013, 6:32 am

Yes, "extrapolate" was what I suggesting.

#34 was "expostulate".

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