What is Quone?
1.
Medical term. When a patient gets difficult you have to quone them.
"We're going to have to quone this patient"
2.
A neologism coined in "The
"This dictionary's no good, we need a medical dictionary! When a patient is difficult, you quone him." - Kramer
3.
Medicine:
v. To perform an act on a difficult patient.
When a patient gets difficult, you quone him
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4.
quone coined in an episode of the TV show, Seinfeld -noun- a non-word played in the game of Scrabble; -verb-(quone, quoned, quoning) to play a non-word in Scrabble.
Note: I've actually submitted this definition to Hasbro and to Merriam Webster, the manufacturers of The Scrabble Players Dictionary. Your other definition entries are good, but obviously they cannot actually appear in any medical dictionary. However, it seems that this definition has an actual function and place in a dictionary because it describes a common real-life situation (such as "wipeout" in surfing and "misdeal" in cards, etc)...and there is currently no dictionary listing for the situation.
Dan: "You won that Scrabble game only because you got away with playing a quone, 'flabbergut' for 36 points!"
Bob: "Hey, quoning is part of playing Scrabble. Don't blame me if you're too chicken to challenge such an idiotic term!"
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1.
Medical term. When a patient gets difficult you have to quone them.
"We're going to have to quone this patient"
2.
A neologism coined in "The
"This dictionary's no good, we need a medical dictionary! When a patient is difficult, you quone him." - Kramer
3.
Medicine:
v. To perform an act on a difficult patient.
When a patient gets difficult, you quone him
See
4.
quone coined in an episode of the TV show, Seinfeld -noun- a non-word played in the game of Scrabble; -verb-(quone, quoned, quoning) to play a non-word in Scrabble.
Note: I've actually submitted this definition to Hasbro and to Merriam Webster, the manufacturers of The Scrabble Players Dictionary. Your other definition entries are good, but obviously they cannot actually appear in any medical dictionary. However, it seems that this definition has an actual function and place in a dictionary because it describes a common real-life situation (such as "wipeout" in surfing and "misdeal" in cards, etc)...and there is currently no dictionary listing for the situation.
Dan: "You won that Scrabble game only because you got away with playing a quone, 'flabbergut' for 36 points!"
Bob: "Hey, quoning is part of playing Scrabble. Don't blame me if you're too chicken to challenge such an idiotic term!"
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