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backgammoner

backgammoner noun: a player of backgammon.

Noun

backgammoner (plural backgammoners)

  1. A player of backgammon.
    • 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

Forms of backgammoner

pluralbackgammoners

Origin of backgammoner

From backgammon + -er.

Questions about backgammoner

What does backgammoner mean?
Backgammoner means a player of backgammon.
What part of speech is backgammoner?
Backgammoner is a noun.
What is the plural of backgammoner?
The plural of backgammoner is backgammoners.

Words near backgammoner in the dictionary

  1. backgains
  2. backgame
  3. backgames
  4. backgammon
  5. backgammoned
  6. backgammoner
  7. backgammoners
  8. backgammoning
  9. backgammons
  10. backgate
  11. backgated

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