cockamaroo
(ˌkɒkəməˈruː)
A variety of bagatelle.
| 1850 Bohn's Hand-bk. Games 613 (heading) Russian Bagatelle, or Cockamaroo Table. 1875 Encycl. Brit. III. 230/2 Cockamaroo, or Russian Bagatelle, is played on a table prepared with a number of pins, holes, arches, and bells, up to and through which the ball is played from the baulk end of the table. It is a childish amusement, requiring little skill. 1893 Sat. Rev. LXXVI. 561 Like a glass marble in the good old game of Cockamaroo. 1969 E. H. Pinto Treen 216/2 In Cockamaroo or Russian bagatelle, the ball is driven through an arrangement of pins, holes, arches and bells. |