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单词 cup and ball
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cup and balln.

Forms: Also cup-and-ball.
1. A toy consisting of a cup at the end of a stem to which a ball is attached by a string, the object being to toss the ball and catch it in the cup or on the spike end of the stem. Also the game played with this. = bilboquet n. 2.
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society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > other toys > [noun] > cup and ball
bilboquet1743
cup and ball1762
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > other amusements or entertainments > [noun]
swinging1610
shuggie-shue1653
bilboquet1743
kite-flying1804
cup and ball1836
kittly-benders1854
cakewalk1863
mudlarking1888
pogo1921
pogoing1921
yo-yo1932
waterball1950
laugher1973
karaoke1977
bouncy castle1986
paintball1987
bouncing castle1988
paintballing1989
zorbing1996
1762 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World II. 106 Indolence..tosses the cup and ball with infantine folly.
1799 R. Southey Amatory Poems Sonn. i She held a Cup and Ball of ivory white.
1836 T. Hook Gilbert Gurney III. 131 Where sat Mrs. Nubley, alone, on a sofa, playing at cup-and-ball.
2. attributive. Of a joint or bones: = ball and socket n. at ball n.1 Phrases 3a.
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the world > life > the body > structural parts > joint > types of joint > [adjective]
ginglymoid1668
arthrodial1703
squamous1712
planiform1733
sutural1826
synarthrodial1830
enarthrodial1836
ginglyform1847
cup and ball1854
amphiarthrodial1859
synostotic1864
synchondrosial1866
trochoidal1882
amphiarthrotic1956
1854 R. Owen Struct. Skeleton & Teeth in Orr's Circle Sci.: Org. Nature I. 189 The cup-and-ball vertebræ in batrachian larvæ.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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