bumblepuppy

[ buhm-buhl-puhp-ee ]

noun
  1. a game of whist played carelessly or contrary to rules and conventions.

Origin of bumblepuppy

1
First recorded in 1795–1805; bumble1 + puppy

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How to use bumblepuppy in a sentence

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

British Dictionary definitions for bumble-puppy

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

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