toodlum buck
English
Alternative forms
- doodlem-buck
- doodle-em-buck
- toodlembuc
- toodlembuck
- toodlumbuck
- toodle-em-buck
Noun
toodlum buck (plural toodlum bucks)
- (New Zealand, Canada, obsolete) the game of crown and anchor
- 1933, Slang To-Day and Yesterday, Eric Partridge, London: Routledge & Kegal Paul, page 294:
- toodle-em-buck, the game of crown and anchor
- 1941 (July 11), “Whitcombes Sale” advertisement, The Press, Christchurch, New Zealand, page 1:
- TOODLUM BUCKS: A Crown and Anchor game, 10/6 for 7/6.
- 1933, Slang To-Day and Yesterday, Eric Partridge, London: Routledge & Kegal Paul, page 294:
- (Australia, archaic) a betting game involving a spinner marked with horses’ names
- 1939 (August 1), Hansard of the 33rd Parliament of Victoria, Volume 207, page 638:
- I regard these games as more or less of the same class as the Toodlum-buck I played when a youngster.
- 1960, “The “Toodlembuck”—Australian children’s gambling device and game”, Dorothy Howard, Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 73, No. 287 (Jan.–Mar. 1960), pages 53–54:
- But children of the early 1900's had a gambling custom—extinct now, as far as I could learn—claiming the picturesque name of “Toodlembuck” and employing a unique handmade gambling wheel and “cherry bobs” (cherry stones cherries are in season at Melbourne Cup time) for money.
- 1939 (August 1), Hansard of the 33rd Parliament of Victoria, Volume 207, page 638:
- (Australia) the piece of wood (cat) that is struck in tipcat
- (New Zealand) a carnival game in which marbles were thrown at holes or at buttons on the ends of sticks
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