WINNER ANNOUNCED!! FOH's Word of the Week Poll #8

[MoeFOH]

Every week we're going to have a poll about the definition of a forgotten or obscure word. Pick the definition you believe to be the correct one. All voters (correct or not) go into the draw for an El Pres Sampler!!   (Drawn Tuesday morning, Brisbane time. Please note: Polls don't show on Tapatalk, you can participate via a web version of the site)

@Fuzz is now co-piloting this with me, and he's delivered a great word and some superb decoy definitions this week - Thanks Fuzz! 

NO GOOGLING OR DICTIONARY USE! We're using the honour system. It's just a bit of fun. If you know, you know. If you don't, have a stab in the dark or an educated guess (if you prefer that term). 

You may elaborate about your choice in the topic thread below if you wish but no posting of any official definitions, etc., that will give away the game for others. 

Now you know the drill, vote away!  Good luck and may this comp prove to be a fun palaestra that turns us all into better word-grubbers, if you know what I mean...

[LLC]

Swing and a miss. Answer would have been my second choice. Man I suck at this. 

[lovethehaze]

On a bad run 

[Chucko8]

Pretty sure I got this one right

[Wookie]

Missed badly

[FireMedic]

Voted purely with what I wanted it to be. Was wrong. Will now call this item by this term for-EVER 

[dominattorney]

Well, that was fun. 

[alloy]

Can't eat a crustacean with a winklepicker I guess....

[Auspaul]

No idea

[OldEasy]

Got lucky! Just had a feeling this time. Solid deception answers though, everything was different and sounded very plausible. Vote is pretty dead split too.

[CaptainQuintero]

Forgotten my arse! I own one/a pair/some/am one

 I'm offended to say the least

[David88]

One I actually knew! Although some of the other options are a bit more interesting 

[MoeFOH]

Going to close this off soon - get your vote in! 

[MoeFOH]

Yes. Winklepicker, rather disappointingly, is a just a shoe. Almost 30% Winklepicked correctly. 

To the random draw winner, that went to @Bri Fi !!

Congrats!! 

Please PM your details (name, address and email) to me @MoeFOH and we'll arrange dispatch of your prize. 

Next poll up soon - stay tuned! 

[lovethehaze]

Congrats ? 

[Fuzz]

Yep, just a style of shoe or boot.

From Wikipedia:

The extremely pointed toe was called the winkle picker because in England periwinkle snails, or winkles, are a popular seaside snack which is eaten using a pin or other pointed object to extract the soft parts out of the coiled shell carefully, hence the phrase: "to winkle something out", and based on that, winklepickers became a humorous name for shoes with a very pointed tip.

And if you have ever seen Nate's blue suede shoes, they were very winklepicker-ish.

 

 

 

[Bri Fi]

Thanks so much to the FOH team. Can’t believe I won. Very excited!

[IanMcLean68]

52 minutes ago, Fuzz said:

Yep, just a style of shoe or boot.

From Wikipedia:

The extremely pointed toe was called the winkle picker because in England periwinkle snails, or winkles, are a popular seaside snack which is eaten using a pin or other pointed object to extract the soft parts out of the coiled shell carefully, hence the phrase: "to winkle something out", and based on that, winklepickers became a humorous name for shoes with a very pointed tip.

And if you have ever seen Nate's blue suede shows, they were very winklepicker-ish.

 

 

 

Well, if you got kicked by those, it would certainly hurt your winkle. that's for sure!

[Fuzz]

54 minutes ago, IanMcLean68 said:

Well, if you got kicked by those, it would certainly hurt your winkle. that's for sure!

Only if you armour up.

[Medtiempligero]

Hahahah a shoe??? That's good to know