May game
May game noun: an entertainment held as part of the spring celebrations in May, especially on May Day.
Noun
May game (plural May games)
- An entertainment held as part of the spring celebrations in May, especially on May Day.
- An object of ridicule; a laughingstock.
- Ah my deare Lord, what ſight is this (quoth ſhe) / What May-game hath misfortune made of you?1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, stanza 40, page 279
Forms of May game
| plural | May games |
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Questions about May game
- What does May game mean?
- May game means an entertainment held as part of the spring celebrations in May, especially on May Day.
- What part of speech is May game?
- May game is a noun.
- What is the plural of May game?
- The plural of May game is May games.
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