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Compound Words Quiz #4

Can you guess these compound words based on a definition?
A compound word is formed by combining two shorter words
Examples: Houseboat, armchair, breadstick
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First submittedJanuary 24, 2013
Times taken35,811
Average score65.0%
Rating4.01
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Definition
Word
Soccer
Football
Inflatable car-safety device
Airbag
Used for carrying business papers
Briefcase
Old method of controlling a video game
Joystick
A small pit, dug out to provide
shelter from enemy fire
Foxhole
Leader of a board of directors
Chairperson
Marine creature with stinging tentacles
Jellyfish
Access point to the sewers
Manhole
Clothes-scrubbing tool or
zydeco instrument
Washboard
Person who chops down trees
for a living
Lumberjack
Definition
Word
Architectural diagram
Blueprint
Hotel employee who carries luggage
Bellhop
Large road-side advertisement
Billboard
Person who rents farmland and gives the
landlord a percentage of the output
Sharecropper
Device for catching small rodents
Mousetrap
Physical comedy, such as getting a
pie in the face
Slapstick
Runway for models
Catwalk
Highly-ranked chess player
Grandmaster
Thin vertical line on a suit or other
piece of clothing
Pinstripe
Young frog
Tadpole
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64 Comments
bukes44
+6
Level 78
Jan 22, 2013
I would add Bellboy or Bellman for Bellhop.
robtring
+9
Level 35
Feb 6, 2017
In the UK we call them porters I think. I only know bellboy from watching Big Bang Theory haha
BlackLab
+2
Level 66
May 6, 2019
I got to get running now

keep my lip buttoned down

carry this baggage out

always running at someone's pleading heel

You know how I feel

Always running at someone's heel

bebn123
+5
Level 60
Jan 22, 2013
"Highly-ranked chess player"? Shouldn't that be "egghead"?
KatM
+5
Level 23
Jan 23, 2013
Can you accept "Suitcase" for Briefcase? I think they are the same things o.o?
ctleng76
+12
Level 65
Jan 30, 2013
But a suitcase is meant for packing clothing and travel items. The clue specifically mentioned papers. Briefcase is really the only answer.
hirsutebodkin
+1
Level 58
Sep 22, 2022
Portfolio works as well
leckscheid
+3
Level 37
Jun 7, 2014
chairman should be acceptable, we don't have to get that PC do we? I suppose you could accept chairwoman as well.
Quizmaster
+12
Level ∞
Mar 14, 2015
Chairman/woman/person all would have worked.
sumokitty
+3
Level 84
May 6, 2019
This is the only one I missed because I'm used to just saying "chair" -- no need for the compound, IMO.
kalbahamut
+7
Level 81
Sep 17, 2015
I got it with chairman, but, if the answer is chairperson... why not "personhole?" Are you saying only men are fit to be sewer workers?
Kestrana
+21
Level 60
Sep 17, 2015
I know you're just trolling to be a jerk, but the "Chairman" of the Board could refer to a person of any or no gender, whereas a manhole refers to an inanimate non-gendered object and never a person of any gender. So there is actually an important distinction.
kiwirage
+9
Level 63
Sep 18, 2015
Swapping man to 'person' is no less sexist. Why not 'perdaughterhole', or 'chairperdaughter'?
kalbahamut
+4
Level 81
May 6, 2019
I'm not being a jerk but if you are a jerk yourself I'm sure it's hard to see that. It's a legitimate question. A manhole is a hole for a man.
sumguy
+4
Level 85
Apr 5, 2022
@Kestrana: It's not called a manhole because the hole has a gender! It refers to the gender of the person who is expected to use it. I, nevertheless, think it would be ridiculous to call it a personhole, and I suspect that kalbahamut does as well. It was a joke, not being a troll.
TheChosen
+6
Level 73
Apr 5, 2022
man can also mean human in general, no need for an overly political correct humanbeinghole or the sorts.
Nachtschicht
+3
Level 60
Sep 20, 2022
Why not just sewerhole, because it is a hole that leads to a sewer? Well, maybe not every manhole leads to a sewer, I'm sure there are also other locations that could be entered through a manhole...
WT2008
+3
Level 77
Apr 1, 2015
A Foxhole is also a Shellscrape or a Slittrench, which are also both compound words. Should both be accepted.
kiwiquizzer
+3
Level 68
May 6, 2019
I could only think of trench. And I didn't get bellhop, but I tried porter and doorman.
Sifhraven
+1
Level 72
Apr 11, 2024
I tried trenchhole and wartrench. then I was out of ideas, only know it as trenches.
joeythelemur
+2
Level 83
Apr 4, 2022
Both slit trench and shell scrape are two words, according to the dictionary.
Zupity
+1
Level 66
Sep 20, 2022
All I could think of was dugout, probably because it's in the clue
Tummykong
+1
Level 66
Sep 16, 2015
I'd request it allow "stormdrain" in addition to "manhole" for access to sewers.
jat250
+3
Level 33
Sep 16, 2015
I believe storm and drain are two separate words and not compound.
sumguy
+1
Level 85
Apr 5, 2022
Storm drain is two words. Also, I think a storm drain is usually fixed; permanently attached to the asphalt and/or concrete, with bars across it to prevent access. A manhole has a manhole cover to permit access.

I suppose a storm drain does provide access to the sewer for water, but it's still not a compound word.

celebeth
+2
Level 71
Sep 16, 2015
100%.
AnikaM
+3
Level 42
Oct 17, 2015
Highly-ranked chess player: Nerd
Malbaby
+10
Level 70
Mar 20, 2019
Obviously you find chess too difficult.
ddddan
+1
Level 80
Feb 24, 2023
Says the "level 38" Jetpunk user
blinky
+2
Level 58
Mar 19, 2018
I thought a catwalk was a scaffold above a stage or arena setting, so one could walk around above the actors and drop water balloons on them. I saw that on Project Catwalk.
redsplat
+1
Level 73
Mar 16, 2019
You're thinking of the grid.
QRU
+1
Level 74
Mar 17, 2019
For the second question, I tried every concievable version of "eight-final".
aldo
+2
Level 66
Mar 17, 2019
"Floorplan" should be accepted under architectural diagram.
samiamco
+2
Level 69
Mar 27, 2019
A floor plan is a very small subset of a blueprint, as they only show the size and layouts of rooms. Blueprints, however, are engineering instructions, including information about construction methods, materials, electricity and plumbing, and I could go on, but most importantly, it's not a compound word, but two separate words.
Jango
+1
Level 64
Apr 4, 2022
I agree. Blueprint has a wider meaning also. Both are equally correct
RuthlessCosmo
+2
Level 74
Sep 20, 2022
Hammer: Now, in arranging these lots, of course, we use blueprints. You know what a blueprint is, huh?

Chico: It's oysters.

The Cocoanuts (1929)

Djilas
+3
Level 83
Mar 17, 2019
Dugout should work for foxhole?
POOCH
+1
Level 72
Mar 18, 2019
I believe a "dugout" is either a place reserved for a baseball team or a canoe, but not a foxhole - at least in my world.
samiamco
+1
Level 69
Mar 27, 2019
Hmm, that's actually not a bad point and right on the borderline, but looking it up, apparently a foxhole is a place to shoot from and to take cover from being shot at, whereas a dugout is meant to be a general shelter (like to sleep in, etc.), and has some sort of roof or cover over it. Who knew?
WanderingWalrus
+1
Level 79
Apr 4, 2022
Dugout is also a place to shoot from. Wilfred Owen, British WW1 poet:. "We found an old Boch dugout and he knew"
BiggieSmalls
+1
Level 74
May 6, 2019
what about "paperclip" for the business papers? It is commonly spelled as one word, even wikipedia (the source you use most commonly) lists it as one word as a alternative.
Lilylee
+4
Level 76
May 6, 2019
Who uses a paperclip to carry their business papers?
RuthlessCosmo
+1
Level 74
Sep 20, 2022
Some people, on the other hand, might use a matchbox to hold their clothes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3GEDqkJeVs
BobSaget
+5
Level 78
May 6, 2019
I believe the preferred nomenclature is "personhole."
ander217
+8
Level 74
May 6, 2019
Accept pothole? In my town they are deep enough to provide access to anything below - sewers, caves, River Styx, etc. :)
DaveM
+1
Level 74
May 30, 2021
I tried woodchopper, axeman and treefeller before finally getting it 😑
Zupity
+1
Level 66
Sep 20, 2022
I tried all of those too. Eventually remembered the North American term for it.
blizzrd33
+4
Level 80
Apr 5, 2022
Never heard of a sharecropper before this quiz. I'm not alone by the stats. I missed blueprint because I associate those with engineering plans rather than architectural plans, which are different things.
Dml123
+3
Level 70
Apr 5, 2022
Shame that my attempt of 'ten-ant' didn't work for the farmer one!
Dynniks
+2
Level 66
Apr 5, 2022
What about accepting "tenant" as an answer?
Dimby
+4
Level 79
Apr 8, 2022
Maybe tenants, but ants are notoriously hard for landlords to collect rent from, especially when there are ten of them.
AJS
+2
Level 80
Apr 6, 2022
Sharefarner is used instead of sharecropper in a number of English speaking countries, especially for grazing farms
APHill
+1
Level 75
Apr 8, 2022
If you are going to have "chairperson", should you not also have "personhole" and "lumberjill"?
Geostars
+1
Level 65
May 26, 2024
Grow up, read the Bible.
Jerry928
+1
Level 76
Apr 10, 2022
There's also a non-inflatable car safety device that's a compound word!
Koopa
+3
Level 80
Aug 28, 2022
I'm still waiting for the day sea jelly supplants jellyfish, but I'm not holding my breath.
MacZidane
+2
Level 66
Sep 20, 2022
I am 52 years old and today is the first time I have ever encountered the word 'sharecropper'
FlickerP
+1
Level 74
Sep 20, 2022
Slightly older and never heard of it either. Or bellhop
burntofferings4all
+1
Level 53
Sep 24, 2022
Didn't pay attention in school when they taught about the dustbowl?
mal
+1
Level 63
Sep 20, 2022
Didn't get the sharecropper and struggled with Bellhop but I don't recognise them as UK terms so that's probably why. Got the rest ok though. :-)
pensta
+1
Level 66
Sep 21, 2022
Sharecropper is a bit of a stretch.
burntofferings4all
+2
Level 53
Sep 24, 2022
Sharecropper is what they are though.
PoetsCorner
+1
Level 86
Jul 4, 2023
I chop down trees, I wear high heels, suspenders and a bra...
MLR824
+1
Level 75
Sep 16, 2024
Maybe accept chalkline for pinstripe. That’s what I typed first.
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