That should definitely be a valid SB word, especially given the word starting with N that’s allowed today. I would say that GODHOOD is more common.
Disappointed but not surprised it didn’t accept HORNDOG.
Literally came to post this. Delighted that I wasn’t the only one who tried it.
Also, I always try DROOG, even though I know it’s never going to be acceptable.
I did too!
Also DRONGO, which I know as Aussie slang but now looking it up I discovered it’s also a bird and thus ought to be fair game.
Same here! They accept DILDO, why not horndog?
Having recently learned that a “hondo” is the knot used in a lasso, I was hoping to use it, but I understand that it’s pretty obscure.
I was rather pleased to have come up with PORPHYRY. I would have been even more pleased if it had been accepted. No luck on HOOPTY either.
There was one I blanked on and eventually went to the user clues which were singularly unhelpful. They kept referring to a “Chinese stew” which could be anything. I eventually worked it out, and the folks in Lancashire might want a word.
I had the same thought-- the word in question, BTW, being “nappy.”
Also, from what I understand from truck drivers of my acquaintance, in some regions, the word “lorry” is used in the US for a cab + load combination where a semi load is entirely enclosed (ie, not a flatbed, or something partially open). I think, but won’t swear by it, that “lorries” is haul cargo and would not be enclosed Mack trucks or cargo vans that are below “lorry” weight restrictions on bridges. I think in the UK a lorry is also a semi cab without a load, which in the US is a “bobtail.”
UK readers, please correct me-- I think a Mack-type truck is still a lorry in the UK, but trucks that people might used for farm work, and as personal drivers, are “trucks,” in the UK.
The point being that with meanings overlapping, but still different, it isn’t possible to use the definitions of both countries without someone crying “foul.”
Yes, I’m on post 4 or something of about 8,000. Never heard of the game before, but am highly intrigued; going to check it out. If it’s interesting as it sounds, I’m going to figure out about how many posts this thread gets per day, and try to read that, + 20, until I’m caught up.
There goes the Agatha Christie novel I’ve been trying to finish.
But in the meantime, could someone PM me a one-paragraph explanation of how the game works? little bit confused right now.
Didn’t it used to accept OPAH?
I guess the study of joint disease wasn’t in Sam’s curriculum.
Or alternative medicine - no ORTHOPATHY allowed. Although I’m not as bothered by that one.
But apparently the study of Buddhism was. ARHAT? Really? I only got it because I used the hints to see the letter count and first two letters, then tried a few random combinations.
They didn’t take HOOPY. Next you’ll be telling me they don’t take FROOD, either.
It did. 17 times through to the end of 2023, and now disallowed the past 5 times. Another mysterious deletion.
Here’s a wiki that explains it pretty well.
Tuesday: No HOOPOE. Hmph.
(Also: still no PION)
Yes, pion really surprised me. Absolutely standard dictionary word.
That’s been included frequently enough that I actually remembered to try it.
When it comes to subatomic particles, only the most commonly known ones seem to be accepted. Proton and photon, yes and I assume electron and neutron (I can’t remember them ever coming up), but AFAICT, nothing else.
Lambing would be up there in the most mundane omissions category, at least for the two months I’ve been playing.
Yeah, I thought so too. Maybe it’s obscure if you live in NYC and know nothing whatsoever about farms.
And BLAG/BLAGGING are too British to make the cut.