[Jerome Betts]

pronk cider so rough as to be undrinkable. 'This batch made from
GM apples is pure pronk'.

looper in cricket a ball that confuses the batsman by looping the loop in flight 'That looper really had Clarke's eyes crossing before it bowled him'

booly equivalent of geek in mathematical world. 'He's a real booly. Takes problems to bed to solve.'

jaunce to self-destruct through nerves 'Cook really jaunced his chances with that golden duck'

Er . . .

[John Whitworth]

So it is too, Jeremy. Pity. Loofer is a much better word. But looper will do. Loo pervert eh?

I read the Sun at the hairdresser's. Of course I know who Harry Styles is. A first order prat.

[basil ransome-davies]

Bill Greenwell, eye-witness to an actual copy of the Oldie, informs me that 'raffinose' is one word.

[John Whitworth]

Quite right, Bazza. I get the Oldie too but didn't bother to check. Thank you.

[Jayne Osborn]

So sorry, folks, that was my mistake.

I get the results sent to me by one of The Oldie staff as a pdf, and words with "fi" in them always get split apart, for some reason, like "fi nally" for example; I transfer the whole text to a Word document and delete the spaces, but I missed that one! I've now corrected it at the top of the thread.

Jayne

[Gail White]

Well, blast. I already sent an entry with "raffinose" as two words.

RAFFI NOSE: Able to find truffles under the snow. "That there's the most raffi nose pig I ever had."

[Brian Allgar]

What kind of maumy pronk would have set a competition like this? I haven't entered it - I've more than enough to do without responding to every booly looper who thinks I should jaunce my poor old tytyfer on such rubbish. Hendship is one thing, and I'm all for it. But I refuse to get down on my knees to raffinose the judges.

[Sylvia Fairley]

For the sake of hendship, I support Brian, he's not such a pronk as he seems. I'll not raffinose my talents on a booly of a looper like this, I'll tytyfer the next maumy in the hope of a successful jaunce.

[Lois Elaine Heckman]

Those are great, Sylvia and Brian! I almost lost my loopers laughing!

Sorry not to have had time to enter this one. The only definition I managed was:

tytyfer: n. referring to a man’s hairy chest. Some gentlemen prefer to depilate their tytyfer.

...but that was probably too much of a "low meaning" for this comp anyway.