Talk:troll-my-dames

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troll-my-dames

Another Shakespeare nonce VealSociedad (talk) 19:56, 18 March 2022 (UTC)

OED lemmatises this at troll-madam. It's one of those annoying words that is definitely attested, but spelled differently every time. Here's the full list of OED's alternative spellings (not for copying into this dictionary): "troule in madame, trol in madam, trowe maddam, trolemadame, trol-madame, troll-my-dame, troll-medam, trou-madam, troll-madame, trou-madame".

Also of note is that we define this game as nineholes, while OED and M-W give it as bagatelle. These may be the same game, but it's not entirely clear to me. Our entries for these games talk past each other. This, that and the other (talk) 13:17, 19 April 2022 (UTC)

cited. I also added and cited troll madam. Bagatelle, from what I can see, is a slightly different, more modern version of the game. Kiwima (talk) 23:22, 26 April 2022 (UTC)

RFV-passed Kiwima (talk) 01:32, 4 May 2022 (UTC)