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shuffleboard

noun

Etymology

From earlier shovillaborde (“shovel board”), an alteration of shove-board, from shove + board.

  1. derived from *bʰers-✻ — “tip, top”
  2. inherited from *burdą✻ — “board, plank; edge; table”
  3. inherited from *bord✻
  4. inherited from bord
  5. inherited from boord
  6. compounded as shuffleboard — “shove + board”

Definitions

  1. A game that involves sliding a puck or coin towards a target.

  2. The long, narrow board on which this game is played.

The neighborhood

Derived

deck shuffleboard, shuffleboarder, shuffleboard puck, shuffleboard stick, shuffleboard table, table shuffleboard

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA