housey-housey

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housey-housey

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Reduplicated diminutive house + -y. See house (“the game of bingo”)

noun

  1. uncountable Lotto or bingo, especially when played for money. The rest of the day they passed lying on their beds yarning, or reading stories by Victoria Cross, or playing cards or housey-housey.

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@misc{housey_housey_2026,
  title = {housey-housey},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/housey-housey},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}