A little while ago, I happened to see an episode of Call My Bluff (a vey old repeat – it’s not something I watched when it was originally broadcast). One of the words was seege, meaning the sushing sound sound the sea makes as it comes ashore. I thought that would be a good one for word of the week, so when we went for a walk yesterday, I took this photo.
Back home, I made a nice cup of tea and looked up the word. Or rather I tried to. Online all I could find was that it was an old, alternative spelling for siege. That’s when you don’t let people out of their castle until the give up and let you in – but not a come in and I’ll put the kettle on kind of way.
Seege isn’t in any of our dictionaries either. I may have misremembered the spelling, but had no luck with the likely variations. It’s possible I mixed up the definition with that of another word. I didn’t just make seege up though, as Gary vaguely remembers it too. Oh well, it was a nice walk!
Have you ever heard of seege?