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bumble-puppy
Jun. 4th, 2024 07:42 ambumble-puppy or bumblepuppy - n., whist or bridge played poorly or without regard for the rules.
But also previously, according to other dictionaries than Green's, (a) another name for nineholes, a game in which balls or marbles are rolled into nine holes in the ground or through arches in a board, (b) a game in public houses in which balls are rolled down a sloping board, often with pegs, and pierced with numbered holes, an ancestor of both bar billiards and pachinko, and (c) game in which a ball attached by string to a post is hit so that the string winds round the post, which I've always known as tetherball. Name is of uncertain origin, though bumbling around has something to do with it, and while it's hard to be sure, it looks like (b) might be the oldest sense. Maybe.
Bonus word: boardsman (hint: for 'trick' read 'monte')
---L.
But also previously, according to other dictionaries than Green's, (a) another name for nineholes, a game in which balls or marbles are rolled into nine holes in the ground or through arches in a board, (b) a game in public houses in which balls are rolled down a sloping board, often with pegs, and pierced with numbered holes, an ancestor of both bar billiards and pachinko, and (c) game in which a ball attached by string to a post is hit so that the string winds round the post, which I've always known as tetherball. Name is of uncertain origin, though bumbling around has something to do with it, and while it's hard to be sure, it looks like (b) might be the oldest sense. Maybe.
Bonus word: boardsman (hint: for 'trick' read 'monte')
---L.
