单词 | cup and ball |
释义 | cup and balln. 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1762 |
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