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Then Simpson couldn't get a doctor, for he has a game-leg, and I had to run, and I don't know what I'd have done without you fellows.
Round the Red Lamp 1894
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Then Simpson couldn't get a doctor, for he has a game-leg, and I had to run, and I don't know what I'd have done without you fellows.
Round the Red Lamp Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1894
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Then Simpson couldn't get a doctor, for he has a game-leg, and I had to run, and I don't know what I'd have done without you fellows.
Round the Red Lamp Arthur Conan Doyle 1894
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"I am a practical man," he said, "and I really cannot undertake to go about the country looking for a left-handed gentleman with a game-leg.
Sex Dungeon for Sale! Patrick Wensink 2010
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"I am a practical man," he said, "and I really cannot undertake to go about the country looking for a left-handed gentleman with a game-leg.
Sole Music 2010
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"I am a practical man," he said, "and I really cannot undertake to go about the country looking for a left-handed gentleman with a game-leg.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes Doyle, Arthur Conan, Sir, 1859-1930 1950
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Anda coxo, a ver los burros, sus hermanos - Hallo, game-leg, go and see your brothers, the donkeys; "and at last, words not being found heavy enough, pieces of adobe rattled at my ears.
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"I am a practical man," he said, "and I really cannot undertake to go about the country looking for a left-handed gentleman with a game-leg.
Gammerstang commented on the word game-leg
(noun) - (1) A sore or wounded leg. It is likely to be from Italian gamba, qualified by some adjective now lost, perhaps through the blunder of someone ignorant of that language . . . The term belongs to the leg only. Nobody ever had a game arm, hand, or even foot.
--Rev. Robert Forby's Vocabulary of East Anglia, 1830
(2) From game, lame, crooked, deformed, disabled, injured, sore; hence gam-legged, having crooked legs; West Yorkshire.
--Joseph Wright's English Dialect Dictionary, 1896-1905
January 19, 2018