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Definition of Beggar-my-neighbour
1. Noun. A card game for two players in which the object is to win all of the other player's cards.
Definition of Beggar-my-neighbour
1. Noun. (alternative spelling of beggar-my-neighbor) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Beggar-my-neighbour
Literary usage of Beggar-my-neighbour
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Down South, Or, An Englishman's Experience at the Seat of the American War by Samuel Phillips Day (1862)
"... Gun "—" Beggar my Neighbour"—The "American System "—A War of Tariffs—Territorial
Aggression—Domestic Aggression—Infractions of the Constitution—Effects ..."
2. The Annals of Bristol in the Nineteenth Century by John Latimer (1887)
"Gates of an uncompromising policy of " beggar my neighbour " began, however, to
yield to the influence of public opinion, and, at a subsequent meeting, ..."
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