PC

en-noun

PC (countable and uncountable, plural PCs)

(bingo) forty-nine (an allusion to a cartoon character, Police Constable 49)


dab

en-verb

dab (third-person singular simple present dabs, present participle dabbing, simple past and past participle dabbed)

dabs (present singular third-person)
dabbing (participle present)
dabbed (participle past)
dabbed (past)

From Middle English dabben (“to strike”), probably of North Germanic origin, related to Old Icelandic dabba (“to tap, slap”), perhaps ultimately imitative. Compare also with Middle Dutch dabben (“to pinch, knead, fumble, dabble”) (Dutch dabben (“(of a horse) to stamp with the forelegs”)), Dutch deppen (“to dab”), possibly German tappen (“to fumble, grope”).
The noun is from Middle English dabbe (“a strike, blow”), from the verb. Related to tap. Compare also drub, dub.
African-American sense of “playful box” perhaps influenced by dap (“fistbump”).

onomatopoeic

imitative

cog

(bingo) Synonym of daub (to mark a bingo card)


two fat ladies

(bingo) A traditional call for the number eighty-eight.


legs eleven

(bingo) A traditional call for the number eleven usually during the game Bingo.


dozen

→ Bengali: ডজন (ḍojon)

⇒ Chinese: 打 (dá)

→ Vietnamese: tá

→ Hindi: दर्जन (darjan)

→ Fiji Hindi: darjan

desctree

⇒ Japanese: ダース (dāsu)
→ Korean: 다스 (daseu)

→ Manx: dussan

→ Maori: taihana

→ Scottish Gaelic: dusan

→ Swahili: dazeni

→ Welsh: dwsin

From Middle English dozen, dozein, doseyne, from Old French dozaine (“a group of twelve”) (Modern French douzaine), from doze (“twelve”) + -aine (“-ish”), from Latin duodecim (“twelve”) (from duo (“two”) + decem (“ten”)) + -ana (“-ish”).


lucky

From Middle English lukky, equivalent to luck + -y. Cognate with Scots lucky (“lucky”), West Frisian lokkich (“lucky, fortunate”), Dutch gelukkig (“lucky, fortunate, happy”). Compare also Danish lykkelig (“happy”), Swedish lycklig (“happy, lucky”), German glücklich (“happy”), Saterland Frisian glukkelk (“happy”).


bingo

en-noun

bingo (countable and uncountable, plural bingos)

→ Polish: bingo

Alternative form of bing, suggesting a ringing sound. Attested since 1925.

(uncountable) A game of chance for two or more players, who mark off numbers on a grid as they are announced by the caller; the game is won by the first person to call out "bingo!" or "house!" after crossing off all numbers on the grid or in one line of the grid.


bingo

bingo! (used when finding what one has been looking for or trying to recall, or on successful completion of a task)


pasko

From Spanish pascua, from Vulgar Latin pascua, from Latin pascha, from Ancient Greek πάσχα (páskha, “Passover”), from Aramaic פסחא (paskha), from Hebrew פסח (pesakh).


one fat lady

From the number eight's similar appearance to that of an overweight woman.


top of the shop

Presumably chosen for the rhyme, and because 90 is the highest number in bingo.


doctor's orders

A laxative pill, "number 9", once issued in the British army


bed and breakfast

en-noun

bed and breakfast (plural bed and breakfasts)

From the notion that two shillings and six pence was once the price of lodging and breakfast in an inn.

Bingo calls that might leave the budding old-timer generally baffled include:[…] 26 ― Bed and breakfast. Traditionally it would cost two and six – two shillings and six pence. Now its £180 a night but you get biscuits.

[2008, Marcus Waring, The Deranged Book for Old Timers, page 68:


бабушка

ru-noun+

ба́бушка • (bábuška) f anim (genitive ба́бушки, nominative plural ба́бушки, genitive plural ба́бушек)

ба́бушка (canonical)
bábuška (romanization)
ба́бушки (genitive)
ба́бушки (nominative plural)
ба́бушек (genitive plural)
ба́бушка (nominative singular)
ба́бушки (nominative plural)
ба́бушки (genitive singular)
ба́бушек (genitive plural)
ба́бушке (dative singular)
ба́бушкам (dative plural)
ба́бушку (accusative singular)
ба́бушек (accusative plural)
ба́бушкой (instrumental singular)
ба́бушкою (instrumental singular)
ба́бушками (instrumental plural)
ба́бушке (prepositional singular)
ба́бушках (plural prepositional)
ба́бушка (dated nominative singular)
ба́бушки (dated nominative plural)
ба́бушки (dated genitive singular)
ба́бушекъ (dated genitive plural)
ба́бушкѣ (dated dative singular)
ба́бушкамъ (dated dative plural)
ба́бушку (accusative dated singular)
ба́бушекъ (accusative dated plural)
ба́бушкой (dated instrumental singular)
ба́бушкою (dated instrumental singular)
ба́бушками (dated instrumental plural)
ба́бушкѣ (dated prepositional singular)
ба́бушкахъ (dated plural prepositional)

→ Ingrian: baabuška

→ English: babushka

→ Romanian: băbușcă

→ Votic: baabuškõ

desc

→ Yakut: баабыска (baabıska, “midwife; grandmother; old woman”)

ru-бабушка.ogg

Inherited from Proto-Slavic *babušьka. By surface analysis, ба́ба (bába) + -ушка (-uška).

surf

(slang) Gandhi's breakfast, eighty in the lotto game


Valentine's Day

en-proper noun

Valentine's Day (plural Valentine's Days)


caller

From Middle English callar, equivalent to call + -er.

(bingo) The person who stands at the front of the hall and announces the numbers.


paso

Borrowed from Spanish paso, from Latin passus.

(bingo) an instance where a player fails to declare a bingo


paso

(bingo) to fail to declare or call a bingo


bato

From Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *batu, from Proto-Austronesian *batu. Compare Fijian vatu, Hawaiian haku, Hiligaynon bato, Indonesian batu, Kapampangan batu, Malagasy vato, Malay batu and Maori whatu.
The sense of "kidney" is a semantic loan from Tagalog bato.


daub

en-verb

daub (third-person singular simple present daubs, present participle daubing, simple past and past participle daubed)

daubs (present singular third-person)
daubing (participle present)
daubed (participle past)
daubed (past)

From Middle English daub (noun), from Middle English dauben (“to plaster or whitewash; cover with clay; bespatter”, verb), from Old Northern French dauber (“to whitewash; plaster”), of uncertain origin. Probably from Latin dealbāre (“to whiten thoroughly”).

der

(transitive, bingo) To mark spots on a bingo card, using a dauber.


дедушка

ru-noun+

де́душка • (déduška) m anim (genitive де́душки, nominative plural де́душки, genitive plural де́душек)

де́душка (canonical)
déduška (romanization)
де́душки (genitive)
де́душки (nominative plural)
де́душек (genitive plural)
де́душка (nominative singular)
де́душки (nominative plural)
де́душки (genitive singular)
де́душек (genitive plural)
де́душке (dative singular)
де́душкам (dative plural)
де́душку (accusative singular)
де́душек (accusative plural)
де́душкой (instrumental singular)
де́душкою (instrumental singular)
де́душками (instrumental plural)
де́душке (prepositional singular)
де́душках (plural prepositional)

Ru-дедушка.ogg

дѣ́душка — Pre-reform orthography (1918)

(slang) top of the house, ninety in the lotto game


cartella

it-noun

cartella f (plural cartelle, diminutive cartellìna)

cartelle (plural)
cartellìna (diminutive)


стул

ru-noun+

стул • (stul) m inan (genitive сту́ла, nominative plural сту́лья, genitive plural сту́льев, diminutive сту́льчик)

stul (romanization)
сту́ла (genitive)
сту́лья (nominative plural)
сту́льев (genitive plural)
сту́льчик (diminutive)
сту́л (nominative singular)
сту́лья (irregular nominative plural)
сту́ла (genitive singular)
сту́льев (genitive irregular plural)
сту́лу (dative singular)
сту́льям (dative irregular plural)
сту́л (accusative singular)
сту́лья (accusative irregular plural)
сту́лом (instrumental singular)
сту́льями (instrumental irregular plural)
сту́ле (prepositional singular)
сту́льях (irregular plural prepositional)

→ Azerbaijani: stul

→ Even: стул (stul)

→ Kildin Sami: стӯла (stūla)

→ Uzbek: stul

Inherited from Old East Slavic стулъ (stulŭ), borrowed from a Germanic language, probably Old Norse or Middle Low German, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *stōlaz. Cognate with English stool. Doublet of стол (stol).

inh+

(slang) knock at the door, four in the lotto game


утёнок

ru-noun+

утёнок • (utjónok) m anim (genitive утёнка, nominative plural утя́та, genitive plural утя́т)

utjónok (romanization)
утёнка (genitive)
утя́та (nominative plural)
утя́т (genitive plural)
утёнок (nominative singular)
утя́та (nominative plural)
утёнка (genitive singular)
утя́т (genitive plural)
утёнку (dative singular)
утя́там (dative plural)
утёнка (accusative singular)
утя́т (accusative plural)
утёнком (instrumental singular)
утя́тами (instrumental plural)
утёнке (prepositional singular)
утя́тах (plural prepositional)

(in the plural, slang) two little ducks, twenty-two in the lotto game


перчатка

перча́точный

перча́тка • (perčátka) f inan (genitive перча́тки, nominative plural перча́тки, genitive plural перча́ток, relational adjective перча́точный, diminutive перча́точка)

перча́тка (canonical)
perčátka (romanization)
перча́тки (genitive)
перча́тки (nominative plural)
перча́ток (genitive plural)
перча́точный (adjective relational)
перча́точка (diminutive)
перча́тка (nominative singular)
перча́тки (nominative plural)
перча́тки (genitive singular)
перча́ток (genitive plural)
перча́тке (dative singular)
перча́ткам (dative plural)
перча́тку (accusative singular)
перча́тки (accusative plural)
перча́ткой (instrumental singular)
перча́ткою (instrumental singular)
перча́тками (instrumental plural)
перча́тке (prepositional singular)
перча́тках (plural prepositional)
перча́тка (dated nominative singular)
перча́тки (dated nominative plural)
перча́тки (dated genitive singular)
перча́токъ (dated genitive plural)
перча́ткѣ (dated dative singular)
перча́ткамъ (dated dative plural)
перча́тку (accusative dated singular)
перча́тки (accusative dated plural)
перча́ткой (dated instrumental singular)
перча́ткою (dated instrumental singular)
перча́тками (dated instrumental plural)
перча́ткѣ (dated prepositional singular)
перча́ткахъ (dated plural prepositional)

→ Bashkir: бирсәткә (birsətkə)

→ Georgian: ხელთათმანი (xeltatmani)

desc

→ Mingrelian: ფერჩატკი (perčaṭḳi), ფეჩატკი (pečaṭḳi), ფერჩქატი (perčkaṭi), ფეჩქატი (pečkaṭi)

Ru-перчатка.ogg

ru:Вот какой рассеянный (мультфильм)
ru:перчатка

From Old East Slavic пьрстатица (pĭrstatica), ultimately from Proto-Slavic *pьrstъ (“finger”). Related to перст (perst, “finger”). The sense of fifty-five in lotto comes from the two verses Вме́сто ва́ленок перча́тки / Натя́нул себе́ на пя́тки. (Vmésto válenok perčátki / Natjánul sebé na pjátki.) in the poem and 1975 film Вот какой рассе́янный, connecting пя́тка (pjátka) to пять (pjatʹ).

(in the plural, slang) snakes alive, fifty-five in the lotto game


кол

ru-noun+

кол • (kol) m inan (genitive кола́, nominative plural колы́, genitive plural коло́в)

kol (romanization)
кола́ (genitive)
колы́ (nominative plural)
коло́в (genitive plural)
ко́л (nominative singular)
колы́ (nominative plural)
кола́ (genitive singular)
коло́в (genitive plural)
колу́ (dative singular)
кола́м (dative plural)
ко́л (accusative singular)
колы́ (accusative plural)
коло́м (instrumental singular)
кола́ми (instrumental plural)
коле́ (prepositional singular)
кола́х (plural prepositional)

(slang) Kelly's eye, one in the lotto game


debu

From English debut, from French début, from Middle French, derivative of débuter (“to move, begin”), from dé- + but (“mark, goal”), from Old French but (“aim, goal, end, target”), from Old French butte (“mound, knoll, target”), from Frankish *but (“stump, log”), or from Old Norse bútr (“log, stump, butt”); both from Proto-Germanic *butą (“end, piece”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeud- (“to beat, push”).


Гагарин

ru-proper noun+

Гага́рин • (Gagárin) m anim or m inan (genitive Гага́рина, nominative plural Гага́рины, genitive plural Гага́риных, feminine Гага́рина)

Гага́рин (canonical)
Gagárin (romanization)
Гага́рина (genitive)
Гага́рины (nominative plural)
Гага́риных (genitive plural)
Гага́рина (feminine)
Гага́рин (masculine nominative)
Гага́рина (feminine nominative)
Гага́рины (nominative plural)
Гага́рина (genitive masculine)
Гага́риной (feminine genitive)
Гага́риных (genitive plural)
Гага́рину (dative masculine)
Гага́риной (dative feminine)
Гага́риным (dative plural)
Гага́рина (accusative masculine)
Гага́рину (accusative feminine)
Гага́риных (accusative plural)
Гага́риным (instrumental masculine)
Гага́риной (feminine instrumental)
Гага́риною (feminine instrumental rare)
Гага́риными (instrumental plural)
Гага́рине (masculine prepositional)
Гага́риной (feminine prepositional)
Гага́риных (plural prepositional)
Гага́рин (nominative singular)
Гага́рина (genitive singular)
Гага́рину (dative singular)
Гага́рин (accusative singular)
Гага́рином (instrumental singular)
Гага́рине (prepositional singular)

ru:Гагарин, Юрий Алексеевич

(slang) baker's bun, sixty-one in the lotto game


очко

ru-noun+

очко́ • (očkó) n inan (genitive очка́, nominative plural очки́, genitive plural очко́в)

очко́ (canonical)
očkó (romanization)
очка́ (genitive)
очки́ (nominative plural)
очко́в (genitive plural)
очко́ (nominative singular)
очки́ (irregular nominative plural)
очка́ (genitive singular)
очко́в (genitive irregular plural)
очку́ (dative singular)
очка́м (dative plural)
очко́ (accusative singular)
очки́ (accusative irregular plural)
очко́м (instrumental singular)
очка́ми (instrumental plural)
очке́ (prepositional singular)
очка́х (plural prepositional)

From о́ко (óko, “eye”) + -ко́ (-kó); originally a diminutive.

key of the door, twenty-one in the lotto game


валенок

ва́ленок • (válenok) m inan (genitive ва́ленка, nominative plural ва́ленки, genitive plural ва́ленок)

ва́ленок (canonical)
válenok (romanization)
ва́ленка (genitive)
ва́ленки (nominative plural)
ва́ленок (genitive plural)
ва́ленок (nominative singular)
ва́ленки (nominative plural)
ва́ленка (genitive singular)
ва́ленок (genitive irregular plural)
ва́ленку (dative singular)
ва́ленкам (dative plural)
ва́ленок (accusative singular)
ва́ленки (accusative plural)
ва́ленком (instrumental singular)
ва́ленками (instrumental plural)
ва́ленке (prepositional singular)
ва́ленках (plural prepositional)

Ru-валенок.ogg

(in the plural, slang) old age pension, sixty-six in the lotto game


tigulang

[t̪ɪˈɡu.l̪ɐŋ]


bolador

(bingo) a caller; the person who stands at the front of the hall and announces the numbers


топорик

топо́рик • (topórik) m inan or m anim (genitive топо́рика, nominative plural топо́рики, genitive plural топо́риков)

топо́рик (canonical)
topórik (romanization)
топо́рика (genitive)
топо́рики (nominative plural)
топо́риков (genitive plural)
топо́рик (nominative singular)
топо́рики (nominative plural)
топо́рика (genitive singular)
топо́риков (genitive plural)
топо́рику (dative singular)
топо́рикам (dative plural)
топо́рика (accusative singular)
топо́риков (accusative plural)
топо́рик (accusative singular)
топо́рики (accusative plural)
топо́риком (instrumental singular)
топо́риками (instrumental plural)
топо́рике (prepositional singular)
топо́риках (plural prepositional)

(slang, in the plural) double hockey stick, seventy-seven in the lotto game


dos patitos

Literally, “[the] two ducklings”, for the ressemblance between the shape of the number 2 and that of a duck.

(Spain, colloquial) the number twenty-two, especially in bingo


Kelly's eye

(bingo) A traditional call for the number one.


Maggie's den

An allusion to prime minister Margaret Thatcher at 10 Downing Street.

(bingo) A traditional call for the number ten.


clickety click

(bingo) A traditional call for the number sixty-six.


bingguhan

[bɪŋˈɡuː.hɐn̪]


one little duck

From the number two's similar appearance to a duck.


Tom Mix

Cockney rhyming slang
Cockney rhyming slang


knock at the door

From the nursery rhyme One, Two, Buckle my shoe; Three, Four, Knock at the door.


unlucky for some

A reference to 13 being an unlucky number.


Boris's den

An allusion to British prime minister Boris Johnson at 10 Downing Street.


never been kissed

After the song Sweet Sixteen and Never Been Kissed


two little ducks

The digit 2 resembles the profile of a duck.

(bingo) A traditional call for the number twenty-two.


Tony's den

An allusion to prime minister Tony Blair; compare earlier Maggie's den.


key of the door

A reference to the traditional age of the majority.


halfway there

Since 45 is halfway to 90, which is the end of the bingo numbers.