bumble-puppyn.

Brit.

/ˈbʌmblˌpʌpi/, U.S.

/ˈbəmbəlˌpəpi/

Origin: Of unknown origin.

Etymology: Origin unknown. Perhaps compare bumble v.², puppy n.

1. A game, typically played in the garden of a public house, in which players attempt to throw or roll a number of metal balls into nine holes cut into a large board laid on the ground, with each hole worth a specified number of points. Cf. nine holes n. 1a(a). Now historical.

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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > bagatelle and similar games > [noun]

troll-madam1572

nine holes1573

pigeonholes1608

small trunksc1610

hole1611

trucks1671

roly-poly1707

Mississippi1728

bumble-puppy1794

bubble the justice1801

bagatelle1819

cockamaroo1850

pigs in clover1889

pinball1911

pinball game1911

Skee-Ball1923

Corinthian bagatelle1933

pachinko1949

1794 P. Colquhoun Observ. & Facts Relative to Licensed Ale-houses 31 Idle and sedentary games, as cards, dice, dominos, what's o'clock, bumble-puppy, shuffle-board, four quarters, or any other low game.

1837 Bentley's Misc. Feb. 212 To finish a match of bumble-puppy at the Pig and Tweezers.

1876 J. Thorne Environs London I. 274/1 One of the old ale-house boards, now rarely seen, for playing a rustic substitute for bagatelle. Here they call it ‘bumble-puppy’.

1907 Notes & Queries 8 June 456/1 Before the ‘Doves’ Tavern at the northwest end of Hammersmith Bridge was pulled down..there was to be seen in the garden..a bumble-puppy table of slate.

2009 P. O'Keeffe Genius for Failure 225 Collegians might enliven the tedium by playing fives, rackets, skittles and ‘bumble puppy’.

2. A name for: any of various simple or informal games. Now rare.

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1833 Berrow's Worcester Jrnl. 24 Jan. At the birth-day juvenile parties he..performs the principal character in the classical game of ‘bumble puppy’.

1896 W. J. Ford in W. Broadfoot et al. Billiards (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) xiii. 430 I used to play another excellent and really amusing version of this [sc. cork pool], which we dignified by the name of ‘bumble-puppy’.

1908 E. M. Forster Room with View x. 171 Cecil was absent—one did not play bumble-puppy when he was there.

1933 Atchison (Kansas) Daily Globe 5 May 2/3 ‘Bumblepuppy’ is a game played in some of the southern states in which the players keep flies off lumps of sugar with fans.

1943 C. Madge War-time Pattern Saving & Spending 118 The little girls play bumble puppy untiringly against the walls of the tenements—two rubber balls at a time, with claps, turns and other movements to be executed before the ball is caught.

3. Originally: a simplified form of whist. Later (humorous and depreciative): whist or bridge characterized by unskilful or amateurish play.

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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > bridge > [noun] > badly-played

bumble-puppy1868

society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > whist > [noun] > played badly

bumble-puppy1868

1868 Westm. Chess Club Papers Sept. 69/2 We called the game Bumble Puppy... The rules were—‘Honours not to score.’ ‘No looking at the last trick.’

1880 ‘Pembridge’ Whist, or Bumblepuppy? i. 1 Bumblepuppy is persisting to play Whist, either in utter ignorance of all its known principles, or in defiance of them, or both.

1898 E. S. May Field Artillery i. 15 You would let him play ‘Bumble Puppy’ first of all, and then gradually entice him to mould his play on scientific principles, little by little carrying him further as his interest grew.

1934 Industr. & Mining Standard 15 Aug. 239/2 There are thousands of people who talk bridge but play bumble-puppy.

1947 W. 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.

1983 M. Bancroft Autobiogr. of Spy ii. 29 ‘Bumble-puppy’ was his name for a kind of idiotic bridge he would play when he had as a guest someone from whom he was trying to extract a story.

4. A game played with bats or rackets in which two players strike a ball attached to a post by a string in opposite directions, the winner being the player who succeeds in winding the string entirely round the post; (also) the post used for the game. Cf. tether-ball n. at tether n. Compounds.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > other bat and ball games > [noun]

pat-ball1775

knur and spell1852

bumble-puppy1897

tether-ball1900

paddleball1930

goalball1947

Jokari1953

pickleball1975

1897 Country Life Illustr. 11 Dec. 670/2 I am surprised that no one should have mentioned ‘Spiropole,’ as its inventor..styles it, though in common parlance we disrespectfully call it ‘Bumblepuppy’.

1900 L. B. Walford One of Ourselves xiv They had had a great game of ‘bumble-puppy’.

1940 M. 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.

2007 Irish Times (Nexis) 31 Jan. 16 Bumblepuppy is American for swingball.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	bumble-puppy
释义	bumble-puppyn. Brit. /ˈbʌmblˌpʌpi/, U.S. /ˈbəmbəlˌpəpi/ Origin: Of unknown origin. Etymology: Origin unknown. Perhaps compare bumble v.², puppy n. 1. A game, typically played in the garden of a public house, in which players attempt to throw or roll a number of metal balls into nine holes cut into a large board laid on the ground, with each hole worth a specified number of points. Cf. nine holes n. 1a(a). Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > bagatelle and similar games > [noun] troll-madam1572 nine holes1573 pigeonholes1608 small trunksc1610 hole1611 trucks1671 roly-poly1707 Mississippi1728 bumble-puppy1794 bubble the justice1801 bagatelle1819 cockamaroo1850 pigs in clover1889 pinball1911 pinball game1911 Skee-Ball1923 Corinthian bagatelle1933 pachinko1949 1794 P. Colquhoun Observ. & Facts Relative to Licensed Ale-houses 31 Idle and sedentary games, as cards, dice, dominos, what's o'clock, bumble-puppy, shuffle-board, four quarters, or any other low game. 1837 Bentley's Misc. Feb. 212 To finish a match of bumble-puppy at the Pig and Tweezers. 1876 J. Thorne Environs London I. 274/1 One of the old ale-house boards, now rarely seen, for playing a rustic substitute for bagatelle. Here they call it ‘bumble-puppy’. 1907 Notes & Queries 8 June 456/1 Before the ‘Doves’ Tavern at the northwest end of Hammersmith Bridge was pulled down..there was to be seen in the garden..a bumble-puppy table of slate. 2009 P. O'Keeffe Genius for Failure 225 Collegians might enliven the tedium by playing fives, rackets, skittles and ‘bumble puppy’. 2. A name for: any of various simple or informal games. Now rare. ΚΠ 1833 Berrow's Worcester Jrnl. 24 Jan. At the birth-day juvenile parties he..performs the principal character in the classical game of ‘bumble puppy’. 1896 W. J. Ford in W. Broadfoot et al. Billiards (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) xiii. 430 I used to play another excellent and really amusing version of this [sc. cork pool], which we dignified by the name of ‘bumble-puppy’. 1908 E. M. Forster Room with View x. 171 Cecil was absent—one did not play bumble-puppy when he was there. 1933 Atchison (Kansas) Daily Globe 5 May 2/3 ‘Bumblepuppy’ is a game played in some of the southern states in which the players keep flies off lumps of sugar with fans. 1943 C. Madge War-time Pattern Saving & Spending 118 The little girls play bumble puppy untiringly against the walls of the tenements—two rubber balls at a time, with claps, turns and other movements to be executed before the ball is caught. 3. Originally: a simplified form of whist. Later (humorous and depreciative): whist or bridge characterized by unskilful or amateurish play. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > bridge > [noun] > badly-played bumble-puppy1868 society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > whist > [noun] > played badly bumble-puppy1868 1868 Westm. Chess Club Papers Sept. 69/2 We called the game Bumble Puppy... The rules were—‘Honours not to score.’ ‘No looking at the last trick.’ 1880 ‘Pembridge’ Whist, or Bumblepuppy? i. 1 Bumblepuppy is persisting to play Whist, either in utter ignorance of all its known principles, or in defiance of them, or both. 1898 E. S. May Field Artillery i. 15 You would let him play ‘Bumble Puppy’ first of all, and then gradually entice him to mould his play on scientific principles, little by little carrying him further as his interest grew. 1934 Industr. & Mining Standard 15 Aug. 239/2 There are thousands of people who talk bridge but play bumble-puppy. 1947 W. 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. 1983 M. Bancroft Autobiogr. of Spy ii. 29 ‘Bumble-puppy’ was his name for a kind of idiotic bridge he would play when he had as a guest someone from whom he was trying to extract a story. 4. A game played with bats or rackets in which two players strike a ball attached to a post by a string in opposite directions, the winner being the player who succeeds in winding the string entirely round the post; (also) the post used for the game. Cf. tether-ball n. at tether n. Compounds. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > other bat and ball games > [noun] pat-ball1775 knur and spell1852 bumble-puppy1897 tether-ball1900 paddleball1930 goalball1947 Jokari1953 pickleball1975 1897 Country Life Illustr. 11 Dec. 670/2 I am surprised that no one should have mentioned ‘Spiropole,’ as its inventor..styles it, though in common parlance we disrespectfully call it ‘Bumblepuppy’. 1900 L. B. Walford One of Ourselves xiv They had had a great game of ‘bumble-puppy’. 1940 M. 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. 2007 Irish Times (Nexis) 31 Jan. 16 Bumblepuppy is American for swingball. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1794
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