blind man's buff

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Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.48 in modern English

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British usage; Uncountable

"That was a further clue; and here, indeed, young Mr. Dowse was getting "warm," as children say at blind-man's-buff, although, as a matter-of-fact, she had now been talking of George Miller at all."

From blind man's + an obsolete sense of buff, coming from Old French buffe (“blow”). First known usage from 1854.

blind man's bluff (alternative)

hoodman

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From blind man's + an obsolete sense of buff, coming from Old French buffe (“blow”). First known usage from 1854.

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