Meanings
nounblumsak (uncountable)
- DutchEnglishPennsylvaniadateduncountablea children's game equivalent to duck, duck, goose
It’s a hot Sunday afternoon and we have just put away on overabundance of taste Pennsylvania Dutch food. The cousins are returning from a walk up the road to the “Five Points” and now head back to the barn for a game of blumsak, a “form of tag using a knotted burlap bag.“
1930–1962, Mammi Rutt, Back Porch Memories. Family Stories and Diaries of Harry Zimmerman Rutt & Ida Musselman Nolt, H.W. Rutt, published 2007, →ISBN, page 7
Origin
- GermanPlumpsack
- Englishblumsak
From German Plumpsack.
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blumsak. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/blumsak
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