Urquhart (trans.) Gargantua and Pantagruel (1927) I Bk I 11: Honest widows may without danger play at the close buttock game with might and main. [Ibid.] I Bk II 249: The women there take great delight in playing the close-buttock game. [Ibid.] 357: You and I had one merry bout together, at the brangle-buttock game.at play at the close-buttock game (v.) under play (at)..., v.