Poohsticks
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editFrom The House at Pooh Corner by A A Milne; a compound of Pooh + sticks.
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- (games) A game where each player throws a stick on the upstream side of a bridge crossing a river, and see whose comes out first on the other side.
- 1951 [1928], A A Milne, The House at Pooh Corner, London: Methuen & Co, page 94:
- And that was the beginning of the game called Poohsticks, which Pooh invented, and which he and his friends used to play on the edge of the Forest.
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