We all heard about buffoons who walked from village to village, mixed people, showing them skits, singing songs, demonstrating tricks with animals (in particular, with a bear). Very often they showed scenes in which they mocked the powers that be.
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The first time on the playing cards were painted bells, later they were replaced by red diamonds. And gamblers who could take risks for the sake of the game were called zabubennyh.
Even later, the so-called criminals, convicts. On their form from the end of the nineteenth century began to sew a distinctive sign - a red diamond. The people he associated with playing cards, well, their owners were risky people. In fact, you need to be just such a person to risk running away, having as a target a stripe on a robe in the form of a red diamond. And such brave ones were/
Therefore, the word zabubenny next value:
- A desperate man;
- A person who commits acts, not really thinking about their consequences.