bumboozer

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noun

A kind of large marble in children's games.

Scrabble 24

Meanings

nounbumboozer (plural bumboozers)

plural bumboozers

  1. A kind of large marble in children's games.

    With her biggest marble, a Bumboozer, poised like a bomb between her thumb and forefinger, she closed one eye and took a steadying breath.

    2011, Suzanne Forster, Wild Child
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    When friends knuckled down for a game played with the boys from the farms, this was a shooter, out to capture their aggies, their bulleys or bumboozers, immies or mibs, milkies or twofers.

    2002, Valerie Gillies, The Lightning Tree, page 36
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APA

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Chicago

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