pickien.
/ˈpɪki/, U.S. /ˈpɪki/, Irish English /ˈpɪki/ Chiefly Irish English.
Chiefly in plural with the. Hopscotch. Also (more fully pickiestone): the flat stone used in a game of hopscotch.
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1884 ‘J. Strathesk’ More Bits from Blinkbonny ii. 33 The ‘pickies’ (or the ‘beds’, or the ‘Pall-all’), played with a flat stone on the pavement.
1898 A. B. Gomme Trad. Games II. 451 (heading) Pickie, a form of Hopscotch... Waterville, Co. Kerry.
1910 P. W. Joyce Eng. as we speak it in Ireland 301 Pickey, a round flat little stone used by children in playing transe or Scotch-hop.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. v. [Lotus Eaters] 74 With careful tread he passed over a hopscotch court with its forgotten pickeystone.
1996 C. I. Macafee Conc. Ulster Dict. 252/1 Pickie, also the pickies, a game: hopscotch.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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