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Quizmaster
Updated and expanded!
Jul 10, 2012 delete reply
gravyfury
maybe it should accept "gag" for strangle?
Jul 16, 2012 delete reply
Quizmeister
Gag is in no way similar to strangle.
Jul 16, 2012 delete reply
LocoOcho
Technically a grotesque and a gargoyle are different things. A grotesque is simply decorational and a gargoyle is functional.
Jul 16, 2012 delete reply
BeccahW
Perhaps accept Gazelle as well as Gnu?
Jul 16, 2012 delete reply
tschutzer
I'm not sure the definition for ghoul is very clear. It's certainly part of the story, but without the adjective 'undead', people would tend to think of someone who's alive and stealing jewelry or some such thing from corpses.
Jul 16, 2012 delete reply
rosen
Agree on this. "Grave robber" includes a living person who steals objects or bodies from graves. I never imagined the clue was referring to an undead entity of any sort. (Esp. since I had no idea that 'ghouls' rob graves - learn something new every day...)
Jul 16, 2012 delete reply
Februus
Just because in modern popular culture the word ghoul refers to an undead being does not change the fact that it's meaning is a living grave robber
Jul 18, 2012 delete
Quizmaster
After more research I changed the clue. Thanks!
Jul 22, 2012 delete reply
ThirdParty
I missed "Giddyup" because I've always heard it pronounced and written it as "Giddyap". (Maybe this is regional? I'm from the Southwestern US.) The dictionary lists "Giddyup", "Giddyap", and "Giddap" as all being valid spellings and pronunciations; you should probably accept all of them.
Jul 16, 2012 delete reply
Quizmaster
Okay. Those will work now.
Jul 22, 2012 delete reply
BigS
You should accept grotesque for gargoil, as that is for decoration, and a gargoil is for draining water.
Jul 17, 2012 delete reply
Nyackjohn
A ghoul is someone who robbed graves - generally to steal the corpse for use at medical school and training centers for use in dissection. It got very bad in Europe a couple of centuries ago, and that's where the word comes from - it has nothing to do with the "undead" and because a couple of modern fiction writers misuse the word does not somehow change the definition because some hack writer or hollywood b-movie scriptwriter says so.
Jul 21, 2012 delete reply
Quizmaster
I used to think so too, but I was wrong. The word comes to us via Arabic folklore.
Jul 22, 2012 delete reply
caracr
got em all! Loved the quiz!
Dec 23, 2012 delete reply
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