Quiz ep. 5 (17/09/2018)

[OldMike]

Paula I may have to have this question in an up and coming quiz (Paula's fb followers will get this).

What is a gravyman?

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[Paula]

I thought you might ask! My dad is super competitive and, quite frankly, a cheat at most games (I know! We are soooo different!). One family game of boggle in the 1980s, pre Google, He was determined to add gravyman (which would have been a huge pointer) into the OED. He had a backstory that lasted about 30 minutes in the telling. Since then, every scrabble or boggle game he’s ever played have included efforts to make gravyman a legit word. So far the OED have not come calling