Pronounced: BOH-lide, noun
Notes: I don’t think I’ve run across this word
Yesterday’s word
The word yarborough (sometimes spelled Yarborough) is “a weak hand in a card name; especially one in which no card is higher than a nine”
First usage
Our word came into English in the 1900s (1900-1910)
Background / Comments
Our word is named after Charles Anderson Worsley; so where does Yarborough come from? He was the 2nd Earl of Yarborough. He supposedly bet 1000 to 1 against getting such a hand (mathematicians tell us that the actual odds are 1827 to 1, so his was either a relatively safe bet, or a foolish one).
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