| 单词 | to play marvels |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto play marvels 2. = marble n. 11a. Frequently in to play marvels. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > marbles > [noun] > marble marble1681 marble ball1681 taw1709 marvela1734 marl1860 marley1887 tolley1970 a1734 J. Comer in Rhode Island Hist. Soc. Coll. (1893) 8 17 A little lad..was playing marvils..near the Old North Meeting House, Boston, and a cart laden passing by, a marvil rolling under the cart he stept to get it. 1742 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman July ii. 27 A Worm..bred in them, which raised a Wart as big as a Marvel on them. 1823 E. Moor Suffolk Words 221 Marvels, boys' marbles. 1845 J. J. Hooper Some Adventures Capt. Simon Suggs xi. 136 Sometimes..I play marvels. 1863 J. McCarroll Lett. Terry Finnegan I. xviii. 47 Not a sowl less than eight thousand of us will turn out up here, ready for anythin from a game of marvels to a murther. 1867 P. Kennedy Banks of Boro i. 5 In the season we shot marvels on the road. 1876 ‘M. Twain’ Adventures Tom Sawyer ii. 27 Jim, I'll give you a marvel. 1929 Amer. Speech 5 19 Marvels,..marbles. ‘Th' young-uns has got some o' these hyar store-boughten marvels.’ 1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §665/2 Marble, ivory, marb, marvel, man, mig, miggle. 1968 in Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. (1996) III. 528/1 Little boys play marvels. 1999 J. M. Kirk in Cuardernos de Filologia Inglesa 8 312 Ulster has its own children's games..marvel, mervel ‘a child's marble’. < as lemmas |
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