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

Example Sentences

The Director and his students stood for a short time watching a game of Centrifugal Bumble-puppy.

From Literature

“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.”

From Literature

Forests of Centrifugal Bumble-puppy towers gleamed between the trees.

From Literature

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

From Project Gutenberg