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Pooh sticks

Pooh sticks is the alternative form of Poohsticks.

Meaning of Poohsticks

Proper noun

Poohsticks

  1. A game for two or more players in which each player throws a stick into a river from the upstream side of a bridge crossing it, the winner being the player whose stick emerges first on the other side.
    • And that was the beginning of the game called Poohsticks, which Pooh invented, and which he and his friends used to play on the edge of the Forest. […] Now one day Pooh and Piglet and Rabbit and Roo were all playing Poohsticks together.1928 October 11, A[lan] A[lexander] Milne, “In which Pooh Invents a New Game and Eeyore Joins in”, in The House at Pooh Corner, London: Methuen & Co. […], →OCLC, page 94

Questions about Pooh sticks

What is Pooh sticks the alternative form of?
Pooh sticks is the alternative form of Poohsticks.

Words near Pooh sticks in the dictionary

  1. poogyee
  2. poogyees
  3. pooh
  4. pooh bah
  5. pooh bahs
  6. Pooh sticks
  7. pooh-bah
  8. pooh-bahs
  9. pooh-pooh
  10. pooh-pooh theories
  11. pooh-pooh theory

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