May game

noun

An entertainment held as part of the spring celebrations in May, especially on May Day.

First used 16th c.
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Meanings

nounMay game (plural May games)

plural May games

  1. historicalAn entertainment held as part of the spring celebrations in May, especially on May Day.First known use 16th c.
  2. CornwallDevonnow chiefly SomersetAn object of ridicule; a laughingstock.First known use 16th c.

    Ah my deare Lord, what ſight is this (quoth ſhe) / What May-game hath misfortune made of you?

    1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, stanza 40, page 279
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