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This is a gemlog for the SpellBinding puzzle, in which you construct words using the specified letters (each word must contain the anchor letter).
CUCK ENNUI EQUINE NUKE QUEEN QUEUE QUICK QUICKEN QUICKIE ENQUEUE QUINCE QUININE UNCI UNKINK UNQUEEN CUKE UNIQUE
Pangrams: QUICKEN
Note: 'quine' is not a word, as much as I would like it to be.
CUCK: to punish by the cucking stool. The cucking stool is a chair, often connected to a device for raising, dragging, or dunking it into nearby water, with the intent of public humiliation or torture of the persone tied to such a chair. The practice dates to the 13th century, but in more recent times the word is used as a short form of 'cuckold'.
UNCI: plural of 'uncus', a hooked anatomical part.
NUKE: I am somewhat annoyed that this slangy word is accepted as a word in all dictionaries. The milder definition describes the act of microwaving food, while the harsher one, the use of nuclear weapons. The fact that both are common enough to require slang/abbreviation is telling.
At least the abominable 'nukular' is not yet a word, in spite of multiple US presidents uttering it.
Another day.