I drove the taxi today which meant an early start, and a different clientele, less of the drunken yobbo brigade and more of the shopping granny crew. I actually picked up Stu the Gardener's Great Grandma!
In my spare time I've been playing a lot of Scrabble on the computer, pitting myself against it at ever higher levels. My rating is about 1750, my opponent, the annoying Professor Maven, currently operates at 1900, his maximum setting is 2100. Just so you don't think I'm wimping out playing him below his best, let me give you a selection of the latest words he's thrown at me. I defy any of my readers to give a definition to any of them without the help of the best dictionary you can find!
Maven's Scrabble Words
TIVY
OGIVE
MOCHILA
LITAI
ONIUM
SONATINE
VIRL
AGOROTH
GOBO
SUQ
MOUJIK
DOGVANES
GLOZE
CHON
SILUROID
TAMANDU
ARROYO
BOLA
AROYNT
WUD
KORAI
AGOUTI
ZOOIDAL
NERTZ
How are you going? Know any of them yet?
Note how many of them are 7 or 8 letter words meaning that not only has Maven played yet another word I've never heard of but he's racked up a 50 point bonus in the process!
I get about a 1 second glimpse of Maven's tiles before he plays his lightning fast mega moves.
Today I saw he had the letters AAIOUBN and thought to myself, "He won't be able to do much with them!!"
Ha!
HaHa!
How wrong can you be?
Can you do anything with them? With some effort I could construct a 4 letter word for maybe 8 points.
Not Maven though!
Maven just casually laid out all 7 letters to form the word OUABAIN!!!!!!!
OUABAIN!!
I KID YOU NOT!!
I will send a prize of a year's free subscription to Holt Press to anyone who knows what OUABAIN means!!
I'll be impressed if you can even find it in your dictionary! It's not in mine.
That didn't stop Maven racking up 60+ points with it on his way to another belting for yours truly!
I have managed to beat him at 1900, 14 times in fact, each one of them hard fought and highly prized, giving me a win ratio of about 30%.
While I was away I foolishly flirted with him at a setting of 2000 and lost 5 straight games!
Leave your definitions, real or made up (Pop, the Heir) in comments!
I'll give you Maven's definition tomorrow!
3 comments:
Marcus I'm surprised you didn't recognize this as the dialect of the African tribe closely related to the ubangi tribe... you know their chant, Ubangi, Ubangi, ubetcha, the closest translation of OUABAIN would be, "Oh you a been".... playing to much scrabble.
I like your defination Peter, but this is the correct one.
OUABAIN a cardiac stimulant
TIVY with great speed
OGIVE pointed arch
MOCHILA leather covering for a saddle
LITAI former monetary unit of Lithuania
ONIUM chatractised by a complex cation
SONATINE short sonata
VIRIL a metal ring or cap
AGOROTH monetary unit of Israel
GOBO a device to sheild a michrophone from noise
SUQ Souk.. a market place in northern africa
MOUJIK muzhik..a russian peasant
DOGVANES small vanes
GLOZE to explain away
CHON monetary unit of South Korea
SILUROID a silurid..any of a family of catfishes
TAMANDU a tamamdua.. an aboreal anteater
ARROYO creek
BOLA throwing weapon
AROYNT to aroint
WUD insane
KORAI african musical instrument
KORAI African musical instrument
AGOUTI a brrowing rodent
ZOOIDAL an organic cell cor body capable of independant movement
NERTZ nerts.. used to express defiance
something which you should use towards to Professor Maven
Wow, and I always thought Pop was the smart one!!
Nice work Mum, you've blitzed all comers with that list.
The year's free subscription is all yours, hope you like it.
Also trust you made it safely across the Nullabor.
Say hi to Vicki and Rex for us.
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