Andie busted out some of her reserve-stock wine, along with some tasty bread, with vinagrette and olive oil for dipping, to complement tonight’s Boggle game, #14. Which, of course, I lost, 208 to 181 in ten.
On the flipside, we found a new favorite word definition:
firn. Granular, partially consolidated snow that has passed through one summer melt season but is not yet glacial ice. Also called old snow.
No definition has made Andie laugh as hard as the previous record-holder, “dey,” which is from way back in our “classic” Boggle days. For the record:
dey. Used formely as the title of the governor of Algiers before the French conquest in 1830.
We decided the ridiculous specificity of “dey” is what made it so funny. “Firn” was funny, I think, mainly because I read the phrase “but is not yet glacial ice” in a sarcastic “but of course it’s not” voice, as if Andie obviously knew that when she played it. (That’s another aspect of the humor: both words were played in the hope that they actually were words; we were just grasping at straws when we played them because Boggle doesn’t seem to penalize word look-ups, unlike Scrabble.)