Playing Dictionary

When I was a teenager I was introduced to a fun game at a youth event. Dictionary consisted of breaking up a group into teams. Each team would be given a word from a dictionary that no one in the group knew the definition for. Only one team would have the definition, and all the others had to make one up. The best fake definition won!

There's a little more to that, I think. It's been *ahem* twenty odd years since I played it. But one of the keys, I remember, was finding a weird enough word that no one knew what it meant. Challenging, in some dictionaries that had been watered down for 'average' vocabularies. For me, an avid reader then as now, it was always delightful to page through a dictionary in search of a new-to-me word. Like...

Nook-shotten,a. Running out into corners or angles: as, "that nook-shotten isle of Albion" (Shakespere's "Henry V.,"iii.5.14).

Or

Pyralid, winged insect supposed to live in fire.

Or

Isohyetal, a. pertaining to or marking equality of rainfall.

Having a really big dictionary on my desk is going to be fun!

The Office-House (which really needs a name) now has comfy seating. And coffee!