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bumboozer

bumboozer noun: a kind of large marble in children's games.

Noun

bumboozer (plural bumboozers)

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

Forms of bumboozer

pluralbumboozers

Questions about bumboozer

What does bumboozer mean?
Bumboozer means a kind of large marble in children's games.
What part of speech is bumboozer?
Bumboozer is a noun.
What is the plural of bumboozer?
The plural of bumboozer is bumboozers.

Words near bumboozer in the dictionary

  1. bumboclaat
  2. bumboclaats
  3. bumbolo
  4. bumbolos
  5. bumboo
  6. bumboozer
  7. bumboozers
  8. bumboy
  9. bumboys
  10. bumbrusher
  11. bumbrushers

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