# Baker's Dozen II (Part 1) **URL:** \ **Category:** Thread Games\ **Created:** [January 25, 2020, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938 "2020-01-25T03:38:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 263
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2021, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/5244 "2021-03-23T01:39:20Z")
**Unusual but real verbs** 1. defenestrate - to throw out the window 2. Xertz - to gulp something down quickly or in a greedy fashion 3. absquatulate - to make off, decamp, depart or abscond 4. hydraulic - to mine by using high-pressure streams of water to remove rock material, sediment, or other overburden 5. Gnathonize - to flatter someone, or to behave sycophantically. 6. quagswag - to sway to and fro ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2021, 4:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/5245 "2021-03-23T04:08:31Z")
**Unusual but real verbs** 1. defenestrate - to throw out the window 2. Xertz - to gulp something down quickly or in a greedy fashion 3. absquatulate - to make off, decamp, depart or abscond 4. hydraulic - to mine by using high-pressure streams of water to remove rock material, sediment, or other overburden 5. Gnathonize - to flatter someone, or to behave sycophantically. 6. quagswag - to sway to and fro 7. unbosom - to confide, reveal First used by Shakespeare ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2021, 8:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/5246 "2021-03-23T08:25:15Z")
**Unusual but real verbs** 1. defenestrate - to throw out the window 2. Xertz - to gulp something down quickly or in a greedy fashion 3. absquatulate - to make off, decamp, depart or abscond 4. hydraulic - to mine by using high-pressure streams of water to remove rock material, sediment, or other overburden 5. gnathonize - to flatter someone, or to behave sycophantically. 6. quagswag - to sway to and fro 7. unbosom - to confide, reveal 8. snudge - to walk while looking down, thinking contemplatively ---
**Author:** ![Bayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bayaker/32/3454_2.png) [@Bayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bayaker)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2021, 10:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/5247 "2021-03-23T10:28:36Z")
**Unusual but real verbs** 1. defenestrate - to throw out the window 2. Xertz - to gulp something down quickly or in a greedy fashion 3. absquatulate - to make off, decamp, depart or abscond 4. hydraulic - to mine by using high-pressure streams of water to remove rock material, sediment, or other overburden 5. Gnathonize - to flatter someone, or to behave sycophantically. 6. quagswag - to sway to and fro 7. unbosom - to confide, reveal 8. embiggen - to make great; enlarge, expand. Coined by C.A. Ward 1884; popularized 1996 ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2021, 10:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/5248 "2021-03-23T10:35:37Z")
**Unusual but real verbs** 1. defenestrate - to throw out the window 2. Xertz - to gulp something down quickly or in a greedy fashion 3. absquatulate - to make off, decamp, depart or abscond 4. hydraulic - to mine by using high-pressure streams of water to remove rock material, sediment, or other overburden 5. Gnathonize - to flatter someone, or to behave sycophantically. 6. quagswag - to sway to and fro 7. unbosom - to confide, reveal 8. embiggen - to make great; enlarge, expand. Coined by C.A. Ward 1884; popularized 1996 9. perpend - to weigh in the mind, to consider carefully ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2021, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/5249 "2021-03-23T14:53:32Z")
**Unusual but real verbs** 1. defenestrate - to throw out the window 2. Xertz - to gulp something down quickly or in a greedy fashion 3. absquatulate - to make off, decamp, depart or abscond 4. hydraulic - to mine by using high-pressure streams of water to remove rock material, sediment, or other overburden 5. gnathonize - to flatter someone, or to behave sycophantically. 6. quagswag - to sway to and fro 7. unbosom - to confide, reveal 8. snudge - to walk while looking down, thinking contemplatively 9. embiggen - to make great; enlarge, expand. Coined by C.A. Ward 1884; popularized 1996 10. perpend - to weigh in the mind, to consider carefully Housekeeping ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2021, 4:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/5250 "2021-03-23T16:13:31Z")
**Unusual but real verbs** 1. defenestrate - to throw out the window 2. Xertz - to gulp something down quickly or in a greedy fashion 3. absquatulate - to make off, decamp, depart or abscond 4. hydraulic - to mine by using high-pressure streams of water to remove rock material, sediment, or other overburden 5. gnathonize - to flatter someone, or to behave sycophantically. 6. quagswag - to sway to and fro 7. unbosom - to confide, reveal 8. snudge - to walk while looking down, thinking contemplatively 9. embiggen - to make great; enlarge, expand. Coined by C.A. Ward 1884; popularized 1996 10. perpend - to weigh in the mind, to consider carefully 11. scarper - to run away, to flee ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2021, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/5251 "2021-03-23T16:36:28Z")
**Unusual but real verbs** 1. defenestrate - to throw out the window 2. Xertz - to gulp something down quickly or in a greedy fashion 3. absquatulate - to make off, decamp, depart or abscond 4. hydraulic - to mine by using high-pressure streams of water to remove rock material, sediment, or other overburden 5. gnathonize - to flatter someone, or to behave sycophantically. 6. quagswag - to sway to and fro 7. unbosom - to confide, reveal 8. snudge - to walk while looking down, thinking contemplatively 9. embiggen - to make great; enlarge, expand. Coined by C.A. Ward 1884; popularized 1996 10. perpend - to weigh in the mind, to consider carefully 11. scarper - to run away, to flee 12. hie - to move with haste ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2021, 4:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/5252 "2021-03-23T16:42:46Z")
**Unusual but real verbs** 1. defenestrate - to throw out the window 2. Xertz - to gulp something down quickly or in a greedy fashion 3. absquatulate - to make off, decamp, depart or abscond 4. hydraulic - to mine by using high-pressure streams of water to remove rock material, sediment, or other overburden 5. gnathonize - to flatter someone, or to behave sycophantically. 6. quagswag - to sway to and fro 7. unbosom - to confide, reveal 8. snudge - to walk while looking down, thinking contemplatively 9. embiggen - to make great; enlarge, expand. Coined by C.A. Ward 1884; popularized 1996 10. perpend - to weigh in the mind, to consider carefully 11. scarper - to run away, to flee 12. hie - to move with haste 13. impignorate - to pledge something as collateral Pass. ---
**Author:** ![Bicycle\_Bill](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bicycle_bill/32/6208_2.png) [@Bicycle\_Bill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bicycle_Bill)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2021, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/5253 "2021-03-23T23:34:20Z")
**Unusual but real verbs** 1. defenestrate - to throw out the window 2. Xertz - to gulp something down quickly or in a greedy fashion 3. absquatulate - to make off, decamp, depart or abscond 4. hydraulic - to mine by using high-pressure streams of water to remove rock material, sediment, or other overburden 5. gnathonize - to flatter someone, or to behave sycophantically. 6. quagswag - to sway to and fro 7. unbosom - to confide, reveal 8. snudge - to walk while looking down, thinking contemplatively 9. embiggen - to make great; enlarge, expand. Coined by C.A. Ward 1884; popularized 1996 10. perpend - to weigh in the mind, to consider carefully 11. scarper - to run away, to flee 12. hie - to move with haste 13. impignorate - to pledge something as collateral 14. exsanguinate - to completely drain of blood (this one was too good to pass up) **Project Gemini Astronauts** _(must have flown at least one mission)_ 1. Ed White (Gemini IV) - first American astronaut to perform an EVA (spacewalk) _ **-“BB”-** _ ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2021, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/5254 "2021-03-23T23:51:43Z")
**Project Gemini Astronauts** _(must have flown at least one mission)_ 1. Ed White (Gemini IV) - first American astronaut to perform an EVA (spacewalk) 2. Gus Grissom (Gemini III). Rest In Peace, Gus. And Ed too. You both are walking in space heaven now. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2021, 12:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/5255 "2021-03-24T00:37:26Z")
**Project Gemini Astronauts** _(must have flown at least one mission)_ 1. Ed White (Gemini IV) - first American astronaut to perform an EVA (spacewalk) 2. Gus Grissom (Gemini III). Rest In Peace, Gus. And Ed too. You both are walking in space heaven now. 3. Jim Lovell (Gemini VII and XII) - Still alive at 92. ---
**Author:** ![Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/prof.pepperwinkle/32/13627_2.png) [@Prof.Pepperwinkle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Prof.Pepperwinkle)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2021, 12:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/5256 "2021-03-24T00:59:32Z")
**Project Gemini Astronauts** _(must have flown at least one mission)_ 1. Ed White (Gemini IV) - first American astronaut to perform an EVA (spacewalk) 2. Gus Grissom (Gemini III). Rest In Peace, Gus. And Ed too. You both are walking in space heaven now. 3. Jim Lovell (Gemini VII and XII) - Still alive at 92. 4. Wally Schirra (Gemini VIa) - played _Jingle Bells_ on a smuggled harmonica after reporting to have seen Santa Claus in flight ['twas Christmas Eve]. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2021, 3:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/5257 "2021-03-24T03:13:20Z")
**Project Gemini Astronauts** _(must have flown at least one mission)_ 1. Ed White (Gemini IV) - first American astronaut to perform an EVA (spacewalk) 2. Gus Grissom (Gemini III). Rest In Peace, Gus. And Ed too. You both are walking in space heaven now. 3. Jim Lovell (Gemini VII and XII) - Still alive at 92. 4. Wally Schirra (Gemini VIa) - played _Jingle Bells_ on a smuggled harmonica after reporting to have seen Santa Claus in flight ['twas Christmas Eve]. 5. Neil Armstrong (Gemini VIII) - Too bad that was pretty much the last anyone ever heard of him. ---
**Author:** ![bordelond](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bordelond/32/150_2.png) [@bordelond](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bordelond)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2021, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/5258 "2021-03-24T03:53:32Z")
[quote=“Elendil\_s\_Heir, post:5257, topic:846938, full:true”] **Project Gemini Astronauts** _(must have flown at least one mission)_ 1. Ed White (Gemini IV) - first American astronaut to perform an EVA (spacewalk) 2. Gus Grissom (Gemini III). Rest In Peace, Gus. And Ed too. You both are walking in space heaven now. 3. Jim Lovell (Gemini VII and XII) - Still alive at 92. 4. Wally Schirra (Gemini VIa) - played _Jingle Bells_ on a smuggled harmonica after reporting to have seen Santa Claus in flight ['twas Christmas Eve]. 5. Neil Armstrong (Gemini VIII) - Too bad that was pretty much the last anyone ever heard of him. 6. John Young (Gemini III and X) - Also the ninth man to walk on the moon with Apollo 16. Commanded the first and ninth Space Shuttle missions. ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2021, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/5259 "2021-03-24T03:54:54Z")
**Project Gemini Astronauts** _(must have flown at least one mission)_ 1. Ed White (Gemini IV) - first American astronaut to perform an EVA (spacewalk) 2. Gus Grissom (Gemini III). Rest In Peace, Gus. And Ed too. You both are walking in space heaven now. 3. Jim Lovell (Gemini VII and XII) - Still alive at 92. 4. Wally Schirra (Gemini VIa) - played _Jingle Bells_ on a smuggled harmonica after reporting to have seen Santa Claus in flight ['twas Christmas Eve]. 5. Neil Armstrong (Gemini VIII) - Too bad that was pretty much the last anyone ever heard of him. 6. John Young (Gemini III and X) - Also the ninth man to walk on the moon with Apollo 16. Commanded the first and ninth Space Shuttle missions. 7. Michael Collins (Gemini X) - he said that the Apollo 11 Mission was “structured for three men, and I consider my third to be as necessary as either of the other two”. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2021, 4:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/5260 "2021-03-24T04:18:08Z")
**Project Gemini Astronauts** _(must have flown at least one mission)_ 1. Ed White (Gemini IV) - first American astronaut to perform an EVA (spacewalk) 2. Gus Grissom (Gemini III). Rest In Peace, Gus. And Ed too. You both are walking in space heaven now. 3. Jim Lovell (Gemini VII and XII) - Still alive at 92. 4. Wally Schirra (Gemini VIa) - played _Jingle Bells_ on a smuggled harmonica after reporting to have seen Santa Claus in flight ['twas Christmas Eve]. 5. Neil Armstrong (Gemini VIII) - Too bad that was pretty much the last anyone ever heard of him. 6. John Young (Gemini III and X) - Also the ninth man to walk on the moon with Apollo 16. Commanded the first and ninth Space Shuttle missions. 7. Michael Collins (Gemini X) - he said that the Apollo 11 Mission was “structured for three men, and I consider my third to be as necessary as either of the other two”. 8. Buzz Aldrin (Gemini XII) - another living Gemini astronaut, at age 91 ---
**Author:** ![Bullitt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bullitt/32/5725_2.png) [@Bullitt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bullitt)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2021, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/5261 "2021-03-24T04:53:44Z")
**Project Gemini Astronauts** _(must have flown at least one mission)_ 1. Ed White (Gemini IV) - first American astronaut to perform an EVA (spacewalk) 2. Gus Grissom (Gemini III). Rest In Peace, Gus. And Ed too. You both are walking in space heaven now. 3. Jim Lovell (Gemini VII and XII) - Still alive at 92. 4. Wally Schirra (Gemini VIa) - played _Jingle Bells_ on a smuggled harmonica after reporting to have seen Santa Claus in flight ['twas Christmas Eve]. 5. Neil Armstrong (Gemini VIII) - Too bad that was pretty much the last anyone ever heard of him. 6. John Young (Gemini III and X) - Also the ninth man to walk on the moon with Apollo 16. Commanded the first and ninth Space Shuttle missions. 7. Michael Collins (Gemini X) - he said that the Apollo 11 Mission was “structured for three men, and I consider my third to be as necessary as either of the other two”. 8. Buzz Aldrin (Gemini XII) - another living Gemini astronaut, at age 91 9. Frank Borman (Gemini VII) — still kicking at 93 years young. ---
**Author:** ![Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/intergalactic_gladiator/32/112_2.png) [@Intergalactic\_Gladiator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Intergalactic_Gladiator)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2021, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/5262 "2021-03-24T16:48:29Z")
**Project Gemini Astronauts** _(must have flown at least one mission)_ 1. Ed White (Gemini IV) - first American astronaut to perform an EVA (spacewalk) 2. Gus Grissom (Gemini III). Rest In Peace, Gus. And Ed too. You both are walking in space heaven now. 3. Jim Lovell (Gemini VII and XII) - Still alive at 92. 4. Wally Schirra (Gemini VIa) - played _Jingle Bells_ on a smuggled harmonica after reporting to have seen Santa Claus in flight ['twas Christmas Eve]. 5. Neil Armstrong (Gemini VIII) - Too bad that was pretty much the last anyone ever heard of him. 6. John Young (Gemini III and X) - Also the ninth man to walk on the moon with Apollo 16. Commanded the first and ninth Space Shuttle missions. 7. Michael Collins (Gemini X) - he said that the Apollo 11 Mission was “structured for three men, and I consider my third to be as necessary as either of the other two”. 8. Buzz Aldrin (Gemini XII) - another living Gemini astronaut, at age 91 9. Frank Borman (Gemini VII) — still kicking at 93 years young. 10. Pete Conrad (Gemini XI) - at 5’6" he didn’t mind confinement in the capsule as much as others. ---
**Author:** ![gkster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gkster/32/14107_2.png) [@gkster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gkster)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2021, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938/5263 "2021-03-24T18:26:35Z")
**Project Gemini Astronauts** _(must have flown at least one mission)_ 1. Ed White (Gemini IV) - first American astronaut to perform an EVA (spacewalk) 2. Gus Grissom (Gemini III). Rest In Peace, Gus. And Ed too. You both are walking in space heaven now. 3. Jim Lovell (Gemini VII and XII) - Still alive at 92. 4. Wally Schirra (Gemini VIa) - played _Jingle Bells_ on a smuggled harmonica after reporting to have seen Santa Claus in flight ['twas Christmas Eve]. 5. Neil Armstrong (Gemini VIII) - Too bad that was pretty much the last anyone ever heard of him. 6. John Young (Gemini III and X) - Also the ninth man to walk on the moon with Apollo 16. Commanded the first and ninth Space Shuttle missions. 7. Michael Collins (Gemini X) - he said that the Apollo 11 Mission was “structured for three men, and I consider my third to be as necessary as either of the other two”. 8. Buzz Aldrin (Gemini XII) - another living Gemini astronaut, at age 91 9. Frank Borman (Gemini VII) — still kicking at 93 years young. 10. Pete Conrad (Gemini XI) - at 5’6" he didn’t mind confinement in the capsule as much as others. 11. David Scott (Gemini VIII) - will turn 89 this June. He praised Neil Armstrong’s brilliant handling when Gemini VIII malfunctioned: “he activated the solution, under extreme circumstances … it was my lucky day to be flying with him.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938.md?page=262) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/bakers-dozen-ii-part-1/846938.md?page=264)