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|Term=Hook-em-Snivy
|Term=Hook-em-Snivy
|Game Family=Hook-em-snivy
|Game Family=Hook-em-snivy
|Description=<p>Our single reference to this game comes from an 1847 Alabama newspaper in its attempt to describe curling to southern readers: “Did you ever play ‘bass ball,’ or ‘goal,’ or ‘hook-em-snivy,’ on the ice?” Its nature is unknown. “Hookum-snivy” is slang for adultery, not that it matters.</p>
|Sources=<p><span>The </span><em>Alabama Reporter</em><span>, as reprinted in </span><em>Spirit of the Times</em><span> </span>(January 16, 1847)<span>, page 559.</span><span>  </span><span>Provided by David Block, 2/28/2008.</span></p>
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|Description=<p>Our single reference to this game comes from an 1847 Alabama newspaper in its attempt to describe curling to southern readers: &ldquo;Did you ever play &lsquo;bass ball,&rsquo; or &lsquo;goal,&rsquo; or &lsquo;hook-em-snivy,&rsquo; on the ice?&rdquo; Its nature is unknown. &ldquo;Hookum-snivy&rdquo; is slang for adultery, not that it matters.</p>
|Sources=<p><span>The&nbsp;</span><em>Alabama Reporter</em><span>, as reprinted in&nbsp;</span><em>Spirit of the Times</em><span>&nbsp;</span>(January 16, 1847)<span>, page 559.</span><span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span>Provided by David Block, 2/28/2008.</span></p>
|Comment=<p>Protoball asked Mister Google about the word "hookum snivy", and he, rather less helpfully and rather more cryptically than usual, said this: "My Quaker grandmother, born in Maryland in 1823, used [the word] in my hearing when she was about seventy years old. She said that it was a barbarism in use among common people and that we must forget it.</p>
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Our single reference to this game comes from an 1847 Alabama newspaper in its attempt to describe curling to southern readers: “Did you ever play ‘bass ball,’ or ‘goal,’ or ‘hook-em-snivy,’ on the ice?” Its nature is unknown. “Hookum-snivy” is slang for adultery, not that it matters.

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The Alabama Reporter, as reprinted in Spirit of the Times (January 16, 1847), page 559.  Provided by David Block, 2/28/2008.

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Protoball asked Mister Google about the word "hookum snivy", and he, rather less helpfully and rather more cryptically than usual, said this: "My Quaker grandmother, born in Maryland in 1823, used [the word] in my hearing when she was about seventy years old. She said that it was a barbarism in use among common people and that we must forget it.

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