bumble-puppy

British  

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

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Example Sentences

Bumble-puppy, bum′bl-pup′i, n. whist played regardless of rules: the game of nine-holes.—n.

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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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All whist than his he avers is "Bumble-puppy."

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He drank freely and his game was the apotheosis of bumble-puppy.

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I do not care a row of pins how badly they may be written, and what form of bumble-puppy grammar and composition is employed, as long as the writer will walk along the edge of a precipice with a sheer fall of thousands of feet on one side and a sheer wall on the other; or better still crawl up an arête with a precipice on either. 

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