| 单词 | pickiestone |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspickiestone Chiefly in plural with the. Hopscotch. Also (more fully pickiestone): the flat stone used in a game of hopscotch. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > other children's games > [noun] > hopscotch spurn-point1532 Scotch hoppersa1672 hop-scot1789 pallall1799 hopscotch1801 hop-crease1803 Scotch hob1823 hop-score1829 pickie1884 potsy1905 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. < as lemmas |
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