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blumsak

/ˈblʌmzæk/

blumsak noun: a children's game equivalent to duck, duck, goose.

Noun

blumsak (uncountable)

  1. (Dutch, English, Pennsylvania, dated) a 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 of blumsak

From German Plumpsack.

Questions about blumsak

What does blumsak mean?
Blumsak means a children's game equivalent to duck, duck, goose.
What part of speech is blumsak?
Blumsak is a noun.
How do you pronounce blumsak?
Blumsak is pronounced /ˈblʌmzæk/.

Words near blumsak in the dictionary

  1. Blumes
  2. Blumont
  3. blumpkin
  4. blumpkins
  5. Blums
  6. blumsak
  7. Blumstein
  8. Blumsteins
  9. blun
  10. blunch
  11. Blunck

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