bonspiel (bonspel)

[Sc., also written bon speel, bonspel; origin unknown; referred by some to an a umed Dan. * bondespil, a rustic game, Montreal Daily Star , Carnival Number, 1884. bontebok (bon'tē-bok), n. [ D., bok. bonte-quagga (bon'te-kwag"), n. [ bon-ton (F. pron. bôn'tôn'), n. [F., lit. good tone: see hon4, boon3, ton2, and tone.] 1. The style of persons in high life; good breeding.2. Polite or fashionable society. bool (bö), interj. Same as bo2. boo2 ( bö ), n. Same as bu. booby (bố'bi), n. and a. [Formerly also boobie, boobee (the E. word as applied to the bird is the source of F. boubie, the bird called booby ); prob. person; a lubber. When blows ensue that break the arm of toil, And rustic battle ends the boobies ' broil. Crabbe. An awkward booby , reared up and spoiled at his mother's apron-string. Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer, i. 2. 2. The pupil at the foot of a cla ; the dunce of the cla or of the school.-3. In progre ive euchre, the player who has failed most conspicuously in the game.-4. The name of various species of brown and white gannets, birds of the family Sulidæ, genus Sula. The common booby of the United States is Sula leucogastra, a well-known species of the South Atlantic coast. Others are the red footed booby, Sula piscator, and the blue-faced booby, S. cyanops, found on many coasts and islands of the warmer parts of the world. 5. In New England, a hack on runners; a sleigh kept for hire. II. a . Of or pertaining to a booby or boobies; foolish; stupid. He burned his fingers, and to cool them he applied them in his booby fashion to his mouth. Lamb, Roast Pig.