bumble puppy
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English
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Etymology
Of unknown origin.
Noun
- (now historical) A game in which players attempt to project metal balls into nine holes in a flat wooden board; nineholes.
- (now rare) Any of various childish or informal games.
- 1908, EM Forster, A Room With A View, Penguin, published 2018, page 104:
- Cecil was absent—one did not play bumble-puppy when he was there.
- (card games) A simplified form of whist; whist or bridge played unskilfully.
- 1947, W. Somerset Maugham, Creatures of Circumstance:
- Templeton isn't the sort of chap to play bumble-puppy bridge with a girl like that unless he's getting something out of it.
- Swingball or tetherball.
Derived terms
Further reading
- “bumble puppy”, in Collins English Dictionary.
- “bumble puppy”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
- “bumble-puppy, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
