blind man's buff

British  

noun

1. a game in which a blindfolded person tries to catch and identify the other players

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Etymology

Origin of blind man's buff

C16: buff, perhaps from Old French buffe a blow; see _buffet ²

Example Sentences

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blind man's buff

American diplomacy has been playing at blind man's buff in Southeast Asia.

From Time Magazine Archive

Bumping into him in a game of blind man's buff, she considers it a happy portent and they elope to Vienna.

From Time Magazine Archive

She could hawk with a merlin, or play blind man’s buff, or pince-merille.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

Oh, well, yes, if you like—let’s have blind man’s buff and a magic lantern;” and then, dropping a mock curtsey to her companions, she dropped out of the south parlor.

From A World of Girls The Story of a School by Meade, L. T.

And then slackening his step, he talked or made Faith talk—and laugh—every inch of the way into the room where all the rest were clustered ready for blind man's buff.

From Say and Seal, Volume II by Warner, Susan