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Large ball bearing over 1 inch diameter used in the game of marbles to trash your opponents lesser glass marbles. There were special rules for bringing studdys into play, which have completely escaped my memory now - it was a long time ago. Sometimes contracted to Stud. Only ever came across this word in Nuneaton.
A ball - bearing used in a game of marbles, made of steel but referred to as an "iron benker". Favourite tactic employed - take a 4-inch diameter iron benker and drop directly onto glass opposition marbles, thereby smashing them to smithereens. Crude but effective.
Question shouted when seeking a partner to play marbles.
(Baz) to kiss; “baz marbles†(an express ion to kiss marble before throwing)
Bonkers (Mad)
Pearls
Early form of birth control. The idea being that the girl stands against a wall, the boy stands on a box of marbles. They begin to have sex. When the box starts to rattle the girl kicks the box away,
Vrb phrs. To go crazy, to lose control.
adj loopy; nuts. A fairly light-hearted term for someone whoÂ’s losing their marbles a bit. Brits do also share the American meaning, where it refers to a plastic childÂ’s toilet bowl. Not that plastic children probably ever need the toilet.
Lose one's marbles is slang for to become deranged, feeble−minded or crazy.
to kiss. Baz marbles is a Newfoundland expression
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A boy's game played with large marbles.
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A large marble to be played with; also, a game at marbles.
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Of or pertaining to Xanthus, an ancient town on Asia Minor; -- applied especially to certain marbles found near that place, and now in the British Museum.
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A line or mark from which the players begin a game of marbles.
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A term used somewhat loosely to designate a rock consisting of a fine-grained base (usually feldspathic) through which crystals, as of feldspar or quartz, are disseminated. There are red, purple, and green varieties, which are highly esteemed as marbles.
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A thing made of, or resembling, marble, as a work of art, or record, in marble; or, in the plural, a collection of such works; as, the Arundel or Arundelian marbles; the Elgin marbles.
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Pertaining to an Earl of Arundel; as, Arundel or Arundelian marbles, marbles from ancient Greece, bought by the Earl of Arundel in 1624.
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A little ball of marble, or of some other hard substance, used as a plaything by children; or, in the plural, a child's game played with marbles.
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