The story
- Dutch · derived fromdweil“floorcloth”
- English todaydwile flonking
Possibly from dwile or Dutch dweil (“floorcloth”) and English flong, an old past tense of fling. The first documented game took place in 1966, despite hoaxing claims of a 16th-century origin.
Words from the same roots
Dutchdweil all →
dwile
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.