Welcome to the Guess My Word blog. This is a place to discuss the words of the day chosen by Joon and Mike. This paragraph is here mostly as spoiler space. Here are today's words:
First time in a while I've had to bail on both words. I couldn't come up with a word beginning with chen (probably because I kept using the "tch" sound in my head instead of "sh"), and I've never heard of Mike's word. A very tough day here at Guess My Word!
True confession: I put in caracal and was quite surprised to see that it was correct (and I certainly didn't know what it is.) I was apparently thinking of, but mis-spelled, Coracle. According to Wikipedia, the caracal is a cat, but the coracle is a small, lightweight boat of the sort traditionally used in Wales
I could only think of CARACOL, which is Spanish for snail, I think. When CARACAL was revealed after my give-up, it rang a bell but I had to check to see if it was that cat-thing. So it goes.
never heard of caracal here, either. had it down to carabiner/carafe. i actually tried caracalla, the roman emperor, who was named for an article of clothing (the ancient equivalent of a hoodie, i think), but apparently that's not a word these days. also, caracal is etymologically unrelated; it comes from the turkish for "black-eared".
Since I read a lot of natural history stuff and have been to some fancy zoos, I knew caracal (smallish South American 'big cat,' with long dark hairs at the tops of its large ears.) But I didn't think of it when I gave up.
First time in a while I've had to bail on both words. I couldn't come up with a word beginning with chen (probably because I kept using the "tch" sound in my head instead of "sh"), and I've never heard of Mike's word. A very tough day here at Guess My Word!
ReplyDeleteTrue confession: I put in caracal and was quite surprised to see that it was correct (and I certainly didn't know what it is.) I was apparently thinking of, but mis-spelled, Coracle. According to Wikipedia, the caracal is a cat, but the coracle is a small, lightweight boat of the sort traditionally used in Wales
ReplyDeleteI could only think of CARACOL, which is Spanish for snail, I think. When CARACAL was revealed after my give-up, it rang a bell but I had to check to see if it was that cat-thing. So it goes.
Deletenever heard of caracal here, either. had it down to carabiner/carafe. i actually tried caracalla, the roman emperor, who was named for an article of clothing (the ancient equivalent of a hoodie, i think), but apparently that's not a word these days. also, caracal is etymologically unrelated; it comes from the turkish for "black-eared".
ReplyDeletethe things you learn from GMW!
Since I read a lot of natural history stuff and have been to some fancy zoos, I knew caracal (smallish South American 'big cat,' with long dark hairs at the tops of its large ears.) But I didn't think of it when I gave up.
ReplyDeleteGot to 20+ guesses on each, and then pfft.