May game

noun — 2 senses

noun

Historical An entertainment held as part of the spring celebrations in May, especially on May Day.

Cornwall, Devon An object of ridicule; a laughingstock.

Now chiefly Somerset

Ah my deare Lord, what ſight is this (quoth ſhe) / What May-game hath misfortune made of you?1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, stanza 40, page 279:

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