blumsak

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English

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Etymology

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From German Plumpsack.

Pronunciation

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Noun

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blumsak (uncountable)

  1. (Pennsylvania Dutch English, dated)children's game equivalent to duck, duck, goose
    • 1930–1962, Mammi Rutt, Back Porch Memories. Family Stories and Diaries of Harry Zimmerman Rutt & Ida Musselman Nolt, H.W. Rutt, published 2007, →ISBN, page 7:
      It’s a hot Sunday afternoon and we have just put away on overabundance of taste Pennsylvania Dutch food. The cousins are returning from a walk up the road to the “Five Points” and now head back to the barn for a game of blumsak, a “form of tag using a knotted burlap bag.“