Aficionados continued to play housie for the rest of the decade, but always under the threat of criminal prosecution.
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Housie
//ˈhaʊzi//
Synonyms for "housie"
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Translations
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Māori
1 entries- wharewhare noun (gambling game similar to bingo)
Sample sentences
4 total sentences available.
She ran raffles, card games and housie to raise money for Māori welfare.
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Thursday night was housie night at St Monica′s hall.
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2010, Michael Caulfield (editor), The Voices of War: Australians Tell Their Stories from World War I to the Present, unumbered page, He was very officious—universally hated—and bingo, then called housie, was illegal, because we had a housie game and we used to play this on deck and we were all up on deck in our shorts and we′d give warning if he was coming.
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