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Etymology

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Borrowing of English bowling, present participle of bowl (verb). Also syntactically equivalent to bovlo (bowl (container)) + -ingo (holder).

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): [boˈvlinɡo]
  • Rhymes: -inɡo
  • Hyphenation: bo‧vlin‧go

Noun

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bovlingo (uncountable, accusative bovlingon)

  1. tenpin bowling (game played by rolling a ball down an alley in an attempt to knock over a triangular group of ten pins)

Hypernyms

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