backgammoner

plural backgammoners

1. A player of backgammon.

   A young intercontinental crowd injects a bit of life into old backgammoners.

   1986, Sue Carpenter, edited by Lord Lichfield [i.e., Patrick Anson, 5th Earl of Lichfield], Courvoisier’s Book of the Best, London: Ebury Press, →ISBN, page 74, column 3

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   I strove to enlist the sympathies of the backgammoners and the crocheters, even the embroiderers, but in vain; I found with chagrin that I could not awaken one throb of interest in their unfeeling breasts, regarding my “geranium lady.”

   1898 June, Caroline Ticknor, “The Geranium Lady”, in New England Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly, volume XVIII, number 4, Boston, Mass.: Warren F. Kellogg, […], page 498, column 1

   The castle arkwright put in a chequered staircase certainly. It has only one square step, to be steady, yet notwithstumbling are they stalemating backgammoner supstairs by skips and trestles tiltop double corner.

   1939 May 4, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, London: Faber and Faber Limited, →OCLC; republished London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1960, →OCLC, part III, page 560

   Numbers are somewhat diminished at breakfast—Peter and Ellen have their own table, so do the backgammoners, Liz is attending a bar mitzvah in Jerusalem, and Dan and Davide are at a wedding in Wales, so we just have Georgie, Janet, Hanna, and Ronnie.

   2012, Anthony Linick, “September, 2007”, in A Doggy Day in London Town (Life Among the Dog People of Paddington Rec; IV), Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 77