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May games

May games is the plural of May game.

Meaning of May game

Noun

May game (plural May games)

  1. (historical) An entertainment held as part of the spring celebrations in May, especially on May Day.
  2. (Cornwall, Devon, now chiefly Somerset) 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

Questions about May games

What is May games the plural of?
May games is the plural of May game.

Words near May games in the dictionary

  1. May Day sweeps
  2. May Days
  3. May Duke
  4. May Dukes
  5. May game
  6. May games
  7. may God be my witness
  8. may God have mercy on your soul
  9. May gosling
  10. May goslings
  11. May Hill

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