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Didn't know it and had to look it up. Nice word.

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RE: Word Fight - 4/30/2006 4:43:13 PM

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next word: camorra

Doesn't that have something to do with the early Italian mobsters?

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RE: Word Fight - 4/30/2006 5:07:04 PM

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You're close, but not quite...

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RE: Word Fight - 4/30/2006 5:21:33 PM

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Thanks LAM. I came across it some time ago and something I was reading recently jogged my memory.

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RE: Word Fight - 4/30/2006 10:54:17 PM

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gambado

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RE: Word Fight - 4/30/2006 11:01:15 PM

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"Gamba" means "leg," so it must have something to do with the leg.

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RE: Word Fight - 4/30/2006 11:10:46 PM

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yup. think saddle.

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RE: Word Fight - 4/30/2006 11:26:19 PM

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Well, I looked it up after guessing that it's from gamba. I was right about that, but I wouldn't have guessed what it means.

And it has about four different definitions, though they're all related to horseback riding...

It's related to "gambol," for you other players out there.

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RE: Word Fight - 5/1/2006 3:13:10 AM

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I was thinking of the leather flaps that hang down on each side of the saddle to protect the legs.

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RE: Word Fight - 5/1/2006 3:55:44 AM

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Cammora is a secret society - usually has something to do with illegal activities so Tikkiee, you were very close

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RE: Word Fight - 5/1/2006 4:12:15 AM

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Sorry, I can't type this morning...it's camorra

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RE: Word Fight - 5/1/2006 7:37:04 AM

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Whose turn is it now?

According to OED, "gambado" has several meanings:

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A kind of large boot or gaiter, attached to a saddle, to protect the rider's legs and feet from the wet or cold. In later use sometimes applied to leather leggings or overalls fastened with clasps.

A bound or spring (of a horse): = GAMBADE

A fantastic movement, as in dancing or leaping about; a caper.

fig. Any sudden or fantastic action.

Hence gambado v. intr., to prance, caper.

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RE: Word Fight - 5/1/2006 1:11:52 PM

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as many others have said; Fuck it!

clower

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RE: Word Fight - 5/1/2006 1:27:29 PM

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Don't know it and OED says it hasn't been used since the 16th century...

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RE: Word Fight - 5/1/2006 1:31:47 PM

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Sorry Lam,
I wasn't aware there was such a word. I suppose if I am gonna be an asshole I should at least try for spelling.

I meant clowDer..........

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RE: Word Fight - 5/1/2006 2:28:52 PM

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Yeah...surprisingly, that one isn't in OED at all. Weird--it's a reasonably common word.

On the same theme..."rookery"

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RE: Word Fight - 5/1/2006 3:31:37 PM

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Don't know clowder.
Rookery is a run-down tenement building.

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RE: Word Fight - 5/1/2006 3:50:03 PM

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Here in Chicago, a rookery is where birds nest.

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RE: Word Fight - 5/1/2006 4:05:36 PM

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"Radectomy" has to mean "removal of the roots," but I don't know what that could refer to.

"Rookery," like "clowder," is in the class of words that refers to a group of animals of the same species--like "a gaggle of geese."

"Clower," if I remember the entry in OED, means "topsoil."

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RE: Word Fight - 5/1/2006 6:18:34 PM

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So what's the word?

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