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GOVENDE - a game of wordplay, puns, leaps of thought and trivia - GAME 3

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Juliet27 Sun 30-Jul-23 00:39:31

Continued from Game 2

What is belong

It’s when as a child you said you were just going out to play and your mother said ‘don’t be long, dinner’s nearly ready’

biglouis Tue 21-Nov-23 01:33:52

A bill is the (much resented) sum total of what you have to pay for goods or services after you have consumed them.

What are services?

Juliet27 Tue 21-Nov-23 10:21:49

They are something those with a knighthood should never entertain.

What is entertain?

Retread Tue 21-Nov-23 12:05:32

Tain is a Burgh in Scotland that you may enter should you perhaps have business in that area.

What is business?

henetha Tue 21-Nov-23 17:23:04

Business is sometimes what dogs do in the street and their owners pick it up, - or are meant to. Some hang it decoratively in shrubs.

What are shrubs?

OldFrill Tue 21-Nov-23 23:16:14

Shrubs is a quiet massage.

What is massage?

Retread Thu 23-Nov-23 12:56:38

A massage is when you reach a very high age and you celebrate with lots of other people of the same age.

What is celebrate?

biglouis Thu 23-Nov-23 15:29:05

To celebrate is to mark a pleasant occasion such as a birthday or wedding.

What is a birthday?

henetha Thu 23-Nov-23 23:44:52

A birthday is the day you are born, celebrated every year, wearing your skin which is known as your birthday suit .
What is a suit?

biglouis Sun 26-Nov-23 01:35:55

A suit is a category of playing cards all with the same shape device and colour. Quite a good hand in poker.

What is a category?

Juliet27 Sun 26-Nov-23 07:45:48

It’s the state the poor bird was in when my feline caught and half devoured it.

What is devoured

Gwyllt Sun 26-Nov-23 07:59:29

To devour is to eat hungrily or perhaps before someone can take it from you

What is someone

henetha Sun 26-Nov-23 10:06:06

Someone is the person who gets the blame for everything that goes wrong. Someone is very useful.

What is useful?

Retread Sun 26-Nov-23 11:59:53

Useful is when you've had your fill of feeling used and you start setting boundaries regarding demands on your time.

What is a boundary?

biglouis Mon 27-Nov-23 12:19:26

In former days a "bounder" was a fortune hunter who aspired to mix above their social class, therefore breaching a boundary.

What is a hunter?

OldFrill Tue 28-Nov-23 02:11:29

A Hunter is an encased pocket watch favoured by huntsmen for many centuries.

What's elegant?

BlueBelle Tue 28-Nov-23 05:35:26

Elegant is a small black insect that likes to live on peoples legs
What is an insect ?

Gwyllt Tue 28-Nov-23 06:14:38

The slang word for an insect is a creepy crawly

What is creepy

Retread Tue 28-Nov-23 14:31:49

Creepy is a word to describe certain behaviours that are outside the norms of acceptable behaviours.

What is a norm?

OldFrill Tue 28-Nov-23 19:16:02

I dated a Norm who proved to have form, Norm is long gorn.

What's proved?

biglouis Wed 29-Nov-23 09:31:19

If something is proved it is demonstrated by evidence or argument to be true.

What is argument?

Retread Wed 29-Nov-23 19:29:05

An argument is a debate with polemic.

What is a polemic?

henetha Thu 30-Nov-23 11:08:02

Polemic is an epidemic of people learning pole dancing.
They are not always elegant.

What is elegant?

biglouis Sat 02-Dec-23 01:57:01

GANT is an online clothing store with specialising in large sizes so caters to elegant elephants.

What is online?

henetha Sat 02-Dec-23 11:11:45

Online is when my washing is hung out on the whirly line in the back garden.

What is whirly?

Retread Sun 03-Dec-23 13:50:20

Excellent Henetha 😁

Whirly is when the bus driver says it is "twirly" (too early) to use your Freedom Pass and you say "Sorry I am whirly -way too early - this morning".

What is freedom?