A Winter Dictionary

[Snoop Puss]

Powl - to regret cracking the punch bowl by breaking it with the ladle.

Hats off, Flo. Brilliant.

[Bren In Pots]

The sound a snow shovel makes when it hits ice.

[Snoop Puss]

Mr Snoop's offering:

To cruelly rotate one's middle finger knuckle in another's rib cage, especially as used in sibling rivalry.

[mothhawk]

Good guesses, one and all.

Powl is actually a mid 19thC word that means to leave work early in order to go to the alehouse. If you are powling, you're neglecting work and drinking.

Today's bon mot is boun (verb).

[mothhawk]

I'm sure Nicos will be bouning for Christmas, but it seems Bren won't be.

[Bren In Pots]

boun - to decorate for Christmas.

[Nicos]

Oh…how exciting!
I clearly love to boun…

I ‘love to’ loads of things at this time of year….urmmmm, I’ll go with….

urmmmm….

sounds like bounding….

Enthusiastically running around in anticipation ?
or
Stuffing one’s face with gingerbread and other seasonal delights?
Yeh…I’ll go with the latter.I particularly enjoy doing that!

[Florence Fennel]

Good guesses, one and all.

Powl is actually a mid 19thC word that means to leave work early in order to go to the alehouse. If you are powling, you're neglecting work and drinking.

Today's bon mot is boun (verb).

In Sheffield that's what we do on POETS Day

[greenishfing]

I think to Boun may be to miss an English Christmas?

[Florence Fennel]

I think it's to cut holly

[Snoop Puss]

Boun - to leap out of bed and peer through the frosty window to see if it snowed in the night.

[mothhawk]

Boun - Flo is close, but Bren wins. Boun - to decorate with festive evergreen branches.

What would you all do with a bummack (noun)?

[greenishfing]

Slap it? Nip it?

[Nicos]

Delicately pat it dry?

[Snoop Puss]

Keep it under your crinoline?