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Philopena   Listen
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Philopena  n.  (Written also fillipeen and phillippine)  A present or gift which is made as a forfeit in a social game that is played in various ways; also, the game itself. Note: One of the ways may be stated as follows: A person finding a nut with two kernels eats one, and gives the other to a person of the opposite sex, and then whichever says philopena first at the next meeting wins the present. The name is also applied to the kernels eaten.






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"Philopena" Quotes from Famous Books



... the same old elephant with two men inside, the good old chestnut that they'd been tryin' to laugh over for years, and when this philopena was sprung on 'em they were as tickled as a baby with a jack-in-the-box. It wouldn't have got more'n one laugh out of a crowd of every-day folks, but that swell mob just went wild over it. It was a new stunt, done special for them by one of ...
— Shorty McCabe • Sewell Ford



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