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Bumblepuppy

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Bum´ble`pup`py
n.1.The old game of nineholes.
2.(Card Playing) Whist played in an unscientific way.


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Huxley feared we would become a trivial culture, preoccupied with some equivalent of feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy.
Database Nation by Lewis, David B. / Reason
Many Americans have become like the citizens of Huxley's dystopia, who dissipated their energies in mindless games like Centrifugal Bumblepuppy and amoral, sensuous diversions like the feelies and the orgy-porgy.
Bread and circuses: mass entertainment focusing on emotional and ... by Bonta, Steve / The New American
preoccupied with some equivalent of the feelies, the orgy porgy, and the centrifugal bumblepuppy.
Amusing ourselves to death by Stowe, David W. / Washington Monthly
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