| 释义 |
widdy-widdy-way dial.|ˌwɪdɪˌwɪdɪˈweɪ|
Also widdy(-way), etc.
[A rhyme used during the game: see also in Eng. Dial. Dict. and quot. 1969 source below.]
A children's game of tag.
1846J. R. Planché Invisible Prince i. ii. 9 And hail the scenes where I was wont to play At marbles, hopscotch, hoop, and widdy way. 1859Games & Sports for Young Boys 1 Widdy. This is a very spirited game, and is peculiarly adapted for wintry weather. 1893–4R. O. Heslop Northumb. Words II. 788 Widdy-widdy-way,..a boys' game. Two boys start hand in hand from a ‘bay’, and endeavour to touch their opponents. Anyone touched must return with them to the bay and join hands with the first to make a fresh sally... If the chain of hands be broken, the sally has proved a failure, and each outsider endeavours to capture and ride in triumph on the back of one of his quondam pursuers. 1897H. G. Wells Plattner Story 250 Figures kept moving from one line to another, like children playing at Widdy, Widdy Way. 1969I. & P. Opie Children's Games in Street & Playground ii. 94 In Peckham Rye the game is known as ‘Chain Widdy’. |