A Winter Dictionary

[Bren In Pots]

Jurpit - failure to remove a seed from between your teeth.

MrPot's guess - trying to trap a small animal

[greenishfing]

Jurpit - To stash something away, and forget where.

[Nicos]

To jurpit- to finally open up the stash of food set aside for the midwinter celebrations.

( and yes, we do have a stash like this of traditional English foods set aside for Xmas/New Year.)

[Nicos]

OH’s offering……To Burp.

[Snoop Puss]

I've just asked Mr Snoop: he says "closing time necking of unfinished beer".

[Florence Fennel]

Jurpit - to regurgitate the sixpence you almost swallowed from the Christmas pudding

[mothhawk]

Jurpit - nobody came close this time, although I think one or two definitions (Mr S's is very good!) fit the sound of the word far better than its actual meaning, which is to walk across snow covered ground by stepping into another person's footprints. We don't get enough snow to have the need to do that these days.

Today's word is marcescent (adjective).

[Bren In Pots]

Marcescent - a person who's fell in a marsh.

Mr Pots think its - It describes someone who's just stopped walking.

[Snoop Puss]

Marcescent - the adjective used to describe the mixed white glittery effects in snow globes, Christmas cards and advent calendars, in particular if the glitter picks up the froth on the peaks of waves in seaside scenes.

Edited to add: Mr Snoop is out. I'll ask him later.