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bumble-puppy
noun
- a game in which a ball, attached by string to a post, is hit so that the string winds round the post
- modifier (of whist or bridge) played unskilfully
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The Director and his students stood for a short time watching a game of Centrifugal Bumble-puppy.
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“Degrade him from what position? As a happy, hardworking, goods-consuming citizen he’s perfect. Of course, if you choose some other standard than ours, then perhaps you might say he w'as degraded. But you’ve got to stick to one set of postulates. You can’t play Electro magnetic Golf according to the rules of Centrifugal Bumble-puppy.”
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Forests of Centrifugal Bumble-puppy towers gleamed between the trees.
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Bumble-puppy, bum′bl-pup′i, n. whist played regardless of rules: the game of nine-holes.—n.
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All whist than his he avers is "Bumble-puppy."
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