Jenga

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English[edit]

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Etymology[edit]

Borrowed from Swahili -jenga (“to construct, to build”).[1]

Proper noun[edit]

Jenga

  1. (games) A game where players take turns removing wooden blocks from a stack formed brickwise, in which the loser being the player whose actions cause the tower to collapse.
  2. (figurative) Any activity that involves great precision with a risk of great failure.

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References[edit]

  1. ^ Arthur Cornwallis Madan, Swahili-English Dictionary (1903)
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