| 单词 | to play at hardheads |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto play at hardheads 3. A game in which two or more contestants headbutt each other as a test of physical toughness; frequently in to play at hardheads. Also in later use: any of various other games involving a contest to determine the hardest object by beating one 'head' against another. Chiefly figurative. Usually (and now only) in plural. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > fighting sports > other unarmed combat > [noun] pancratium1603 hardhead1606 savate1843 kabaddi1935 society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > other specific games > [noun] > others sitisota1400 papsea1450 half-bowl1477 pluck at the crow1523 white and black1555 running game1581 blow-pointa1586 hot cocklesa1586 one penny1585 cockelty bread1595 pouch1600 venter-point1600 hinch-pinch1603 hardhead1606 poor and rich1621 rowland-hoe1622 hubbub1634 handicap?a1653 owl1653 ostomachy1656 prelledsa1660 quarter-spellsa1660 yert-point1659 bob-her1702 score1710 parson has lost his cloak1712 drop (also throw) (the) handkerchief1754 French Fox1759 goal1765 warpling o' the green1768 start1788 kiss-in-the-ring1801 steal-clothes1809 steal-coat1816 petits paquets1821 bocce1828 graces1831 Jack-in-the-box1836 hot hand1849 sparrow-mumbling1852 Aunt Sally1858 gossip1880 Tambaroora1882 spoof1884 fishpond1892 nim1901 diabolo1906 Kim's game1908 beaver1910 treasure-hunt1913 roll-down1915 rock scissors paper1927 scissors cut paper1927 scissors game1927 the dozens1928 toad in the hole1930 game1932 scissors paper stone1932 Roshambo1936 Marco Polo1938 scavenger hunt1940 skish1940 rock paper scissors1947 to play chicken1949 sounding1962 joning1970 arcade game1978 1606 W. Middleton Papisto-mastix ix. 65 These two answeres play at hard-head, and beat out one anothers braines. 1687 J. Dryden Hind & Panther ii. 57 Both play at hard-head till they break their brains. 1697 E. Settle World in Moon v. i. 37 [To] break a fools head of my own, to run my reverend But-end a tilt at a Gay Petticoat, and play the old Game of hard heads call'd Matrimony. 1755 E. F. Haywood Invisible Spy III. vi. 118 The luxuries of life have taken off all their fierceness, and while they are indulged so far as to be left to play at—Laugh and lie down,—will never go to hard-heads with any body. 1831 W. Scott Jrnl. 16 Oct. (1946) 179 He has been at hard-head [s] with the rogue[s] and come off with advantage. 1869 Children's Prize May 71/1 They were amusing themselves with a game of hard-heads, when they heard a scream. 1894 S. R. Crockett Play-actress v. 64 They played at ‘hard-heads’, at which the minister rather fancied his skill in the choice of the tough combatant specimens of that hardy vegetable. 2007 D. C. Watts Dict. Plant Lore 68/1 The flower heads of Ribwort Plantain are used as ‘soldiers’..in a children's game... One child holds out a duine dubh..and his opponent tries to decapitate it with another... The ‘soldiers’ game is also known as..Hard Heads. < as lemmas |
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