blind man's buff

See also: blindman's buff

English

Alternative forms

• (US) blind man's bluff

Etymology

blind man's + an obsolete sense of buff, coming from Old French buffe (“blow”). First known usage from 1854.

Noun

blind man's buff (uncountable)

1. (Britain, games) A game where one person is blindfolded and tries to catch the other players.

   Synonyms: hoodman-blind, (both obsolete) hoodwink

Related terms

• hoodman (“the blindfolded player”) (obsolete)

Translations

game where someone is blindfolded and tries to catch the others

• Afrikaans: blindemol (af)
• Azerbaijani: gözbağlıca
• Basque: itsumando
• Bulgarian: сляпа баба f (sljapa baba)
• Catalan: gallina cega f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 躲猫猫 (zh) (duǒ māo māo), 捉迷藏 (zh) (zhuō mí cáng)

• Czech: slepá bába f, hra na slepou bábu (cs) f
• Dutch: blindemannetje (nl) n
• Erzya: кончкэть (končketʹ)
• Esperanto: blindludo
• Estonian: pimesikk
• Faroese: blindabukkur m
• Finnish: sokkoleikki, sokko, sokkosilla olo
• French: colin-maillard (fr) m
• Galician: , pitacega f
• German: Blindekuh (de) f, Blindekuhspiel n, Blinde Kuh f
• Greek: τυφλόμυγα (el) f (tyflómyga), ψηλαφίνδα f (psilafínda)

  Ancient: χαλκῆ μυῖα f (khalkê muîa), μυΐνδα f (muḯnda)

• Hungarian: szembekötősdi
• Icelandic: skollaleikur m
• Ido: blindoludo (io)
• Irish: cluiche púicín m
• Italian: mosca cieca f, moscacieca (it) f

• Japanese: please add this translation if you can
• Kazakh: соқыртеке (soqırteke)
• Korean: 까막잡기 (kkamakjapgi)
• Latin: myinda f
• Macedonian: слепа баба f (slepa baba)
• Mari:

  Western Mari: пӹрӓ (pÿrä)

• Norwegian: blindebukk m
• Occitan: catòrba (oc) f
• Oriya: ଅନ୍ଧପୁଟୁଳି (ôndhôpuṭuḷi)
• Polish: ciuciubabka (pl) f, ślepa babka (pl) f
• Portuguese: cabra-cega f
• Romanian: baba-oarba (ro) f, de-a baba-oarba (ro) f
• Russian: жму́рки (ru) f pl (žmúrki)
• Spanish: gallina ciega (es) f
• Swedish: blindbock (sv) c
• Tamil: கண்கட்டிப் பிடித்தல் (kaṇkaṭṭip piṭittal)
• Tatar: gör-gör
• Turkish: körebe (tr)
• Uzbek:

  Cyrillic: кўз боғлаш (koʻz bogʻlash)

  Roman: koʻz bogʻlash

• Vietnamese: trò chơi bịt mắt
• Yiddish: שלעפּע־באָבע‎ f (shlepe-bobe), בלינדע־קו‎ f (blinde-ku), בלענדעניש‎ n (blendenish), קוציבאַבע‎ f (kutsibabe)

Further reading

• Blind man's bluff (game) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia