D, Interrupted! Trivia Quiz

Answer: To move in a sluggish manner

D is dragging his feet, moving slowly and lazily. He was perfectly gruntled before B came along and sabotaged his quiz. Perhaps he can grab some more ink while B is out on the town bootlegging.

Answer: Birthmark/tiny shellfish

A dignotion could be your dragon tattoo, a mole, any remarkable spot on your person, even a birthmark.

A cowin is a very small shellfish which is plucked from its shell using a hatpin. Some people are allergic to shellfish, which could cause a reaction on the skin or elsewhere.

Aha, C slipped in, but she is a good friend, and very couthy (Scottish term for a warm and friendly person, or a comfy-cosy place).

Answer: His first wife

The brouhaha (from the French, and possibly originally Hebrew, quarrelsome bickering to boisterous battling) has been brewing for a long time, long before B called D a bigamist and other bombastic terms.

A deuterogamist is simply someone who marries for a second time.

Answer: Tears it into shreds

He just tore it apart because of one little paragraph, something about a monthly sleepover. D did not need to read any further; that would never work out.

Discerp is an archaic word that can mean either to sever from the whole or to separate into pieces; it can refer to tearing up an object or disassembling an empire.

Answer: Dense/bag of trash/tree ring dating/one who kills friend and foe

Been around tree-dating, have you? Dord is dense; draftsack can be a bag of garbage, or refer to a large bellied person or glutton; dendro (tree) chronology (having to do with time), is age dating for trees by their rings; a drawcansir will kill almost anyone,

D is in a dither, he really hates to leave, The Alphapartments have been home to him for centuries, and his best friends are here. Mrs. D finds him, disconsolate, on the couch reading "The Sorrows of Young Werther" and decides it's time to take action. She puts in a call to Mrs. C, and works out a plan. While D is feeling so doughty, B will fill in a few questions, and then give D the option of choosing the next step. B will also bake brownies drizzled with cinnamon for D's unbirthday.

Answer: like eating berries/brown/abyss/ability to sense weight

B is in the mood for eating berries, especially red ones like raspberries, strawberries, cherries and currants, but not if they show any hint of brown (they could be spoiled); he's not insatiable and eats just enough to satisfy his hunger because he can sense when he's had enough.

This is how he maintains his trim figure!

Answer: Kiss on the hand/clown/drunkard

Basemain (also baisemain) is from the French for kissing of the hand; it is an archaic word from olden times when it was considered polite for a gentleman to kiss a lady's hand when introduced, and was also used in a submissive form as of a vassal greeting his lord. In many places it has been replaced by shaking of hands. A balatron was used to refer to a clown or socially inept person. Bacchanal refers to the followers of the Roman god of wine, Bacchus, imbibers of spirits, wild buffoons.

Mr. B is beside himself and bemoans his beastly behavior. He feels that he deserves a bastinado from his beloved spouse, and he must brave the barkeep's irate humor as well as grovel before the barmaid. He must seek help once he dries up and gets over his beblubbered aspect (face disfigured from weeping).

Answer: Tendency to incite anger/kissing/two-sided/leech

B makes his amends, generously tips the staff, bows to the company and barges out the back door. He may join B.B. (Bibers from Bottles) and strive to become a better bellwether (leader) of beatitudes.

Bifid means split, or in two divisions. A bdelloid is a leech (or a leechlike lifeform) used for bloodletting, as in the old days. It is still used in medicine, but the leeches are sterilised and used only until they have taken in enough blood. They are then disposed of hygienically. Maggots, too, are used beneficially in medicine - sterilised and stopped from eating once they have removed dead or rotting flesh. Even beetles are of great benefit to mankind. If not for the Dung Beetle, we would be knee-deep in unsavory substances.

Answer: Benefit/shrew/church caretaker

A reformed man, Mr. B. proudly walks arm-in-arm with his lovely and bodacious wife.

The word 'besom' comes from a Scottish word meaning broom, and is also used for the broom used in the sport of curling. Brooms being associated with witches, it is sometimes used in Scotland for a nagging woman, annoying person or disobedient child.

Answer: Bread/cough remedy/lute/country dance

Bannock is simply a flat unleavened bread, perhaps good for a nosh or to soothe an upset tummy. A bechic will be of some relief for a cough. A barbiton is a lute, lyre or similar musical instrument, and a bergamask is a provincial dance which changes from country to country according to custom.

The Bs are well prepared for their journeys, but have no bateleurs (short-tailed African eagles), babirusa (Indonesian wild pig), or even a balisaur (long-tailed badger).
They are brimming with confidence and enthusiasm. Bon Voyage!