bumboozer

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Noun

bumboozer (plural bumboozers)

  1. A kind of large marble in children's games.
    • 2002, Valerie Gillies, The Lightning Tree, page 36:
      When friends knuckled down for a game played with the boys from the farms, this was a shooter, out to capture their aggies, their bulleys or bumboozers, immies or mibs, milkies or twofers.
    • 2011, Suzanne Forster, Wild Child:
      With her biggest marble, a Bumboozer, poised like a bomb between her thumb and forefinger, she closed one eye and took a steadying breath.

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