backgammoner

English

Etymology

From backgammon +‎ -er.

Noun

backgammoner (plural backgammoners)

1. A player of backgammon.
   • 1898 June, Caroline Ticknor, “The Geranium Lady”, in New England Magazine: An Illustrated Monthly, volume XVIII, number 4, Boston, Mass.: Warren F. Kellogg, […], page 498, column 1:

     I strove to enlist the sympathies of the backgammoners and the crocheters, even the embroiderers, but in vain; I found with chagrin that I could not awaken one throb of interest in their unfeeling breasts, regarding my “geranium lady.”

   • 1939 May 4, James Joyce, Finnegans Wake, London: Faber and Faber Limited, →OCLC; republished London: Faber & Faber Limited, 1960, →OCLC, part III, page 560:

     The castle arkwright put in a chequered staircase certainly. It has only one square step, to be steady, yet notwithstumbling are they stalemating backgammoner supstairs by skips and trestles tiltop double corner.

   • 1986, Sue Carpenter, edited by Lord Lichfield [i.e., Patrick Anson, 5th Earl of Lichfield], Courvoisier’s Book of the Best, London: Ebury Press, →ISBN, page 74, column 3:

     A young intercontinental crowd injects a bit of life into old backgammoners.

   • 2012, Anthony Linick, “September, 2007”, in A Doggy Day in London Town (Life Among the Dog People of Paddington Rec; IV), Bloomington, Ind.: AuthorHouse, →ISBN, page 77:

     Numbers are somewhat diminished at breakfast—Peter and Ellen have their own table, so do the backgammoners, Liz is attending a bar mitzvah in Jerusalem, and Dan and Davide are at a wedding in Wales, so we just have Georgie, Janet, Hanna, and Ronnie.