单词 | paip |
释义 | paipn. Scottish and English regional (northern). (a) A cherry stone, esp. one picked clean and used in various children's games as a counter or the like (see quots.). Also gen.: a fruit stone, a pip. (b) Any of various children's games played with such stones. Frequently in plural. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > fruit or reproductive product > [noun] > stone-fruit or drupe > stone or formation of stone bonec1384 stone?1523 nut1600 ossiculum1706 paip1721 putamen1793 pyrene1800 pit1803 stoning1842 1721 J. Kelly Compl. Coll. Scotish Prov. 2 A Head full of Hair, a Kirkle full of Hips, and a Briest full of Papes, are three sure Marks of a Daw. 1808–25 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Paip, a cherry-stone... Three of these stones are placed together, and another above them. These are called a castle. The player takes aim with a cherry-stone, and when he overturns this castle, he claims the spoil. 1821 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 9 401 (note) Papes are cherry-stones, which are collected with care by the boys, and furnish them with numberless sources of amusement. c1840 in Trans. Hawick Arch. Soc. (1908) 76 One game, much in favour in autumn with sporting blades, was races with ‘papes’. 1885 A. Christison et al. Life Sir R. Christison I. ii. 33 Cherry trees in my young days were robbed as much for the papes as for the cherries. 1899 Athenæum 7 Jan. 8/3 In the North the game of ‘Paip’ is played with five cherry-stones. 1955 Scotsman 29 Jan. 10 Pape a Go, as I remember it, was a seasonal amusement... The standard unit was one pip (pronounced ‘pape’)..and the customary chant of all stall-holders..was ‘A pape a go! A pape a go! Every time you do it, a pape and another go!’ 1955 Scotsman 8 Feb. 6 For every paipe that lay in a numbered square one's opponent had to pay over the equivalent number of paipes. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1721 |
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