July 05 2011
Pew Nuzzle
With no Storm this week – as I’m taking a mid-year furlough – I’ve dished up an extra treat for you lot to nibble. More than a treat – a feast in fact. Here’s how it works:
To create the list, I began by spoonerising 14 pairs of opposites, so creating 28 nonsense words. SLOW and FAST, say, make FOW and SLAST. Supplied just one of these odd outcomes, can you intuit the original two opposites? Given YOLD, say, you may dredge up UNG to create old/young. Only gibberish words come into play. If you see GLAPPY, then HUM (to make HAPPY/GLUM) won’t be the missing other, since HUM is a word. Get cheerful with this lot.
1 brister
2 clumb
3 darp
4 darry
5 gake
6 grink
7 jenior
8 nalm
9 nase
10 proly
11 rolite
12 satant
13 skump
14 tave
Any more nonsense you’d care to add?
SOLUTION LATER THIS WEEK
Comments
RM — 05 July at 07:44AM
It looks like the usual method of just providing initials is going to give away the whole answer. Suggestions?
RM — 05 July at 08:02AM
15. pand
RM — 05 July at 08:06AM
16. sted
17. hight
18. lict
I think I have all of DAs, though I'm not sure of #8.
RM — 05 July at 08:17AM
I'm finding definitions for most of them.
1. spouse-like
2. A plague killed off the Egyptian livestock
Then I found this link for #4: http://davidastle.com/blog/post/spoon-marathon-bb297/
So this is actually a Pold Uzzle. Seems to be the same 14 clues as before, but in a different order.
Criseyde — 05 July at 09:28AM
Still haven't got 9 and 10 and have 2 pair for 14. My 8 is a pair to do with +/- loudness.
RM, it occurred to me too that there might be the odd meaningful word. Monosyllabic nonsense Spoonered opposites were difficult to find. There's probably a meaning for a word here that I don't know:
19 lin
29 shong
21 dret
SK — 05 July at 09:42AM
I think 8 is about state of anxiety.
SK — 05 July at 09:47AM
...and likewise for 9. (Think of another word for "nonchalant". Which makes you think...would the opposite be "chalant"?)
Criseyde — 05 July at 09:52AM
SK, you're right, that was the original idea for 8. Now that I've followed RM's link for 13 Feb this year all has been revealed. The puzzle has been re-gifted but perhaps it would have been 'dise' to leave it in the bottom drawer for a bit longer.
Criseyde — 05 July at 10:07AM
But that's okay, whatever it takes for DA to have a well-earned break.
RM — 05 July at 06:17PM
19 wose
20 (I assume you meant 20, not 29) lort
21 wy
— 05 July at 11:10PM
RM, you got 'em.
Haven't got yours yet. Been blacked out here most of the day due to winds and trees down. Tomorrow might bring a moment of clarity.
Criseyde — 06 July at 07:28AM
16 larved
17 leavy (although found archaic form of leafy)
18 ?
RM — 06 July at 07:49AM
18 Hint: how the rules may be enforced
Criseyde — 06 July at 01:42PM
18 strenient!
RM — 06 July at 04:41PM
18 I was thinking of strax, but strenient may be better!
RK — 06 July at 04:43PM
18. I thought it was stroose