| 单词 | snob-cricket |
| 释义 | > as lemmassnob-cricket A game of cricket played with a soft ball and a thick stick in lieu of a bat. In full, snob-cricket. ? Now obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > [noun] > forms of cricket single-wicket1735 single-hand cricket1761 double wicket1778 county cricket1855 snob1888 stump cricket1888 tip-and-run1891 stump1903 French cricket1907 Twenty202002 1888 A. Lang in A. G. Steel & R. H. Lyttelton Cricket (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) i. 1 There is a sport known at some schools as ‘stump-cricket’, ‘snob-cricket’, or..‘Dex’. 1892 Daily News 6 May 5/2 They are subject to very dangerous accidents at cricket, and might well confine themselves to ‘snob’. 1893 J. W. Baines in A. G. Bradley et al. Hist. Marlborough Coll. xxii. 220 The great thing was ‘Snob’ cricket, which speedily became a most popular and fashionable pursuit. 1894 Daily News 10 May 6/1 Snob, or stump cricket, is indeed an excellent game. 1901 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 490/2 The game known as ‘snob-cricket’, little cricket, ‘stump-and-ball’, and so forth, might be introduced. < as lemmas |
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