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bumble-puppy|ˈbʌmb(ə)lpʌpɪ|
[Derivation unknown. Cf. bumble v.2]
a. An old game resembling bagatelle, but played out of doors with marbles or ‘dumps’ of lead; nine-holes.
b. Applied humorously to whist played unscientifically. Also of bridge. Also attrib.
1801Strutt Sports & Past. iii. vii. 242 note. 1884Sat. Rev. 25 Oct. 520 ‘Bumble puppy’ or domestic whist at shilling points. 1885Longm. Mag. VI. 597 A common form of home whist—called by Pembridge, Bumblepuppy. 1936E. Culbertson Contract Bridge Complete i. 34 Persons who claim they ‘play no conventions’ either play bumble-puppy Bridge or do play conventions that are tacitly understood. 1947W. S. Maugham Creatures of Circumstance 104 Templeton isn't the sort of chap to play bumble-puppy bridge with a girl like that unless he's getting something out of it.
c. A game in which a ball slung to a post is struck with a racket by each player in opposite directions, the object being to wind the string entirely round the post; also, the post so used.
1900L. B. Walford One of Ourselves xiv, They had had a great game of ‘bumble-puppy’. a1918J. T. B. McCudden Five Yrs. R.F.C. (1919) xii. 227 We had a wonderful game called ‘Bumble-puppy’, which one played with tennis rackets. 1940M. Sadleir Fanny by Gaslight i. 43 One of the boys seized a chance to occupy the bumble-puppy... It was great fun hitting the ball in its string-bag so that it wound tightly round the pole. |