Craps vs Barbotte - What's the difference?
craps | barbotte |
(pluralonly) a game of gambling, or chance, where the players "roll" or throw dice to make scores and avoid crap
* 1920 , , The Understanding Heart , Chapter XII
(crap)
A Canadian dice game akin to craps.
* 1949 , Ernest Evred Blanche, You can't win: facts and fallacies about gambling :
* 1967 , Richard A Epstein, The theory of gambling and statistical logic :
* 1988 , James H Marsh, The Canadian encyclopedia :
* 2003 , Suzanne Morton, At Odds'', ''Gambling and Canadians 1919–1969 , University of Toronto Press, ISBN 0802084419, page 49:
As nouns the difference between craps and barbotte
is that craps is a game of gambling, or chance, where the players "roll" or throw dice to make scores and avoid crap while barbotte is a Canadian dice game akin to craps.As a verb craps
is third-person singular of crap.craps
English
(wikipedia craps)Etymology 1
From (etyl)Noun
(en-plural noun)- “As an inventor,” Bob Mason suggested, “you're a howling success at shooting craps ! If I were as free of spavins, ringbone, saddle-galls, and splints as you are, I'd have that nanny-goat in here, hog-tie her, flop her and let the boy help himself. ”
Etymology 2
Verb
(head)Anagrams
* * * *barbotte
English
Noun
(-)- Canadians prefer the game of barbotte ...
- Barbotte is a Canadian version of Craps wherein the player wins if the two dice produce 3-3, 5-5, 6-6, or 6-5.
- For the past century or so the most popular gambling games have been the card games of poker, stook and blackjack, and the dice games of craps and barbotte .
- Games in such clubs ranged from poker, through roulette to location-specific pastimes such as the Montreal dice game barbotte .