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bumdockdousse

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

Noun

bumdockdousse (uncountable)

  1. a children's game in which three people attempt to kick each other on the bottom (rare) (obsolete)
  2. The word is Thomas Urquhart's rendering of Rabelais's word pimpompet in Gargantua, vol. 1 ch. 22 (1534; ed. Duchat, 1761).
  3. 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.

Questions about bumdockdousse

What does bumdockdousse mean?
Bumdockdousse means a children's game in which three people attempt to kick each other on the bottom (rare) (obsolete).
What part of speech is bumdockdousse?
Bumdockdousse is a noun.

Words near bumdockdousse in the dictionary

  1. bumcrack
  2. bumcracks
  3. Bumdeling
  4. bumder
  5. bumders
  6. bumdockdousse
  7. BUMED
  8. bumelia
  9. bumelia borer
  10. bumelia borers
  11. bumelias

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