E O
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈiː ˈəʊ/
Noun
E O (uncountable)
- A game of chance, in which a ball falls into one of several ditches marked "E" or "O".
- 1751, [Tobias] Smollett, chapter 86, in The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume III, London: Harrison and Co., […], published 1781, OCLC 316121541:
- “Witness your pitiful behaviour at the E. O. table, when that officer bullied you out of twenty guineas, which you wan't obliged to pay.”
- 1801, Maria Edgeworth, Belinda:
- He likes the lady's EO table better than the lady.
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Anagrams
- OE, OE., oe, œ