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bumble-puppy

noun

  1. a game in which a ball, attached by string to a post, is hit so that the string winds round the post
  2. modifier (of whist or bridge) played unskilfully
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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For the latter have played not whist, but Bumble-puppy, and the former have only frequented a watering-place for a time.

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