TLW66 - Nomads Results

OREADES: A plural of OREAD, which is myabsolute favourite kind of mountain nymph.ORLEANS: A sort of cotton/worsted blendfabric.ORNATER: More ornate. Like my articlesused to be when I wrote them before thedeadline instead of after it.OUTDARE: To be even more daring, andbe in defiance of pretty much everything.Hence "You've won it once, now get outdareand win it again".OUTLIER: A bit of something that lies awayfrom the rest of itself. If that makes sense.And it doesn't to me.PEATIER: More like peat. Though not asmuch like peat as peat, which would be thepeatiest....are about my limit!SOUTANE: "No, no quiero escuchar...",sang the overworked author quietly tohimself as he cheerfully wondered if hecould get away with the single word"cassock" as a definition. "No, no quieroescuchar" he repeated. Quickly yetcautiously he continued to type: "Well, it's asort of churchman's robe type affair". Hethen moved quickly to the next paragraph,as the sounds of Doris Dragovic trickledmenacingly from his loudspeakers...TALONED: Having talons. Straightforwardenough.TEARIER: More tearful. I would havethought that you would either be tearful ornot, and I'm surethe looming end of this article will have youall tear/. With joy, probably.PERINEA: Oh dear. Umm, how do I phrasethis one? Well, the PERINEUM is the part ofyour... midriff, between your... umm, frontnaughty bits, and your... umm... bum. AndPERINEA are several of them, and I'mmoving swiftly on...REMANIE: An old fossil stuck inside anewer fossil. "New fossils" in Croatian is novifosili, but I won't bore you with the detailsof how I know that.RIOTISE: If you take nothing else from thisarticle (and that IS looking likely), take thefact that RIOTISE and its cousin RIOTIZEare not - repeat NOT - verbs! A RIOTISE is athing - specifically a riot.The next person to put -D on the end ofeither of them (unless it's me • which itprobably will be) should hang their head inshame.RONDEAU: A type of poem, but it's awfullycomplicated and not the sort of thing Iwould want to be writing. Limericks andMaikus:(Scrabble is my gameBut you wouldn't guess as muchRecent form is poor)TEENIER: More teeny? Itsier, bitsier. Tinier.Smaller.TORULAE: Plural of TORULA, which is, toall intents and purposes, yeast.TRTTONE: The slogan under which ouresteemed Prime Minister (I'm on safeground here - he esteems himself even ifno-one else does...) successfullycampaigned for his first council seat. Thatand a musical term of which (naturally!) Ihave not the remotest comprehension.TROOLJE: The bussu palm, which isfamous for being a TROEUE and a TROELYas well (though not a TROOLY, oddlyenough)URINOSE: And finally, as if I hadn't enoughthings to be coy about, a word which I canonly define as "pee-like".Oh, I've had enough of this for one month.I'm just damed well going to plonk myselfdown in front of my TV with some popcornand some candy floss and wail Turkishly,funk Norwegianly and (most likely) votestrangely. Back in whatever two monthsfrom now is by the time this reaches you!