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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 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?

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?

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?

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

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

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?

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 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?

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?

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

Shrubs is a quiet massage.

What is massage?

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?

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?

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

They are something those with a knighthood should never entertain.

What is entertain?

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?

OldFrill Tue 21-Nov-23 01:21:27

Presumably is adeptly calculating the bill prior to settling it.

What's a bill?

BlueBelle Mon 20-Nov-23 06:44:17

Dictionary is not nice, it’s when Richard (or Dick) shuns Harry
We don’t know why but presumably Harry must have upset Dick
What is presumably ?

OldFrill Sun 19-Nov-23 23:34:10

A squeeze is when you involuntarily squeeze air into your lungs then expel it as a sneeze. A squeeze always comes before a sneeze, except in the dictionary.

What's a dictionary?

Retread Sat 18-Nov-23 16:46:12

A hedgehog is when my husband parks too close to the hedge on the driveway so I have to squeeze past.

What is a squeeze?

henetha Sat 18-Nov-23 10:59:23

A wall is a construction which keeps neighbours apart, and causes trouble for hedgehogs.

What is a hedgehog?

OldFrill Sat 18-Nov-23 01:27:03

It's painted on the wall to keep it warm.

What is a wall?

biglouis Sat 18-Nov-23 00:11:15

Soaking is what you often get when you go out in summer without a rain coat

What is a coat?

henetha Wed 15-Nov-23 10:39:39

A sponge is a person who is quite happy to let you pay for everything. The more you pay, the more they soak it up.

What is soaking?

Retread Wed 15-Nov-23 09:47:38

BigLouis you seem to have stumped us. However grin

Spontaneous is when you use two sponges simultaneously to soap your legs.

What is a sponge?

biglouis Mon 06-Nov-23 13:01:51

Loved is how you feel when someone gives you a big spontaneous hug.

What is spontaneous?

henetha Sun 05-Nov-23 11:04:57

A menu is when someone stopped in the middle of a sentence. They were trying to ask how many men you have loved. Not that it's any of their business!

What is loved?