bumblepuppy

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  1. The game of nine-holes. [Provincial English]
  2. In whist, a manner of playing “either in utter ignorance of all its known principles, or in defiance of them, or both” (Pembridge). Between the worst whist and the best bumblepuppy it is almost impossible to draw the line. Other elementary forms, protozoa, for instance, are often so much alike that it is difficult to decide whether they are plants or animals. Pembridge, Whist or Bumblepuppy? (1883), p. 1.

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