bumdockdousse

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noun

a children's game in which three people attempt to kick each other on the bottom (rare) (obsolete)

First used 1653Scrabble 25
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Meanings

nounbumdockdousse (uncountable)
  1. uncountablea children's game in which three people attempt to kick each other on the bottom (rare) (obsolete)First known use 1653
  2. a children's game in which three people attempt to kick each other on the bottom (rare) (obsolete) The word is Thomas Urquhart's rendering of Rabelais's word pimpompet in Gargantua, vol. 1 ch. 22 (1534; ed. Duchat, 1761). The French word is defined in Cotgrave Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues (1611) as ‘a kinde of game wherein three hit each other on the bumme with one of their feet’; subsequent scholars and lexicographers have typically followed Cotgrave.
    1. uncountableThe word is Thomas Urquhart's rendering of Rabelais's word pimpompet in Gargantua, vol. 1 ch. 22 (1534; ed. Duchat, 1761).First known use 1653
    2. uncountableThe French word is defined in Cotgrave Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues (1611) as ‘a kinde of game wherein three hit each other on the bumme with one of their feet’; subsequent scholars and lexicographers have typically followed Cotgrave.First known use 1653
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