| 单词 | to play the dozens |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto play the dozens 5. the dozens: (in African-American usage) a game or ritualized exchange of verbal insults, usually about the family (esp. the mother) of one's opponent or opponents: (see quot. 1984); to play the dozens U.S.: to engage in a game of ritualized verbal insults and ridicule, usually about family (esp. the mother), with one or more other people. to put (etc., a person) in the dozens (also dozen) U.S. colloquial: to start a verbal exchange of insults and ridicule with (a person), esp. by insulting his or her mother. Cf. signify v. 6, sound v.1 3d. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > invective or abuse > utter invective or abuse [verb (intransitive)] > ritually to play the dozens1928 the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > invective or abuse > abuse [verb (transitive)] > call names > ritually to put (etc., a person) in the dozens (also dozen)1928 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 society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > other specific games > [verb (intransitive)] > other specific games to give a woman a green gowna1586 to play the dozens1928 to play chicken1949 society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > other specific games > [verb (transitive)] > involve in ritualized verbal insults to put (etc., a person) in the dozens (also dozen)1928 the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > invective or abuse > [noun] > ritual exchange the dozens1962 1928 R. Bradford Ol' Man Adam an' his Chillun 12 And yar he come puttin' me in de dozens. Cou'se I busted him wid a rock. I'd bust anybody which put me in de dozens. 1928 R. Fisher Walls of Jericho 9 For it is the gravest of insults, this so-called ‘slipping in the dozens.’ To disparage a man is one thing; to disparage his family is another. 1933 E. Caldwell God's Little Acre x. 142 If you want to play the dozens, you're at the right homestead. 1935 D. L. Cohn God shakes Creation vi. 161 Another prolific source of shootings and stabbings flows from what they call ‘putting 'em in de dozens’. This is a form of Rabelaisian banter engaged in by two or more Negroes. At a gathering one Negro may begin by saying, ‘Yo' mammy hists her tail like a cat.’.. Aspersion after aspersion is cast. 1939 J. Dollard in American Imago Nov. 7 These reactions of concealment and shame convinced me that playing the Dozens is not an orgy of licentious expression for lower-class Negroes; all know that the themes treated are in general forbidden, some refuse to play the game and still others are very resentful and defensive at the mere thought of it. 1941 W. A. Percy Lanterns on Levee xxiii. 301 ‘Some fool nigger puts you in the dozen.’.. ‘What's putting you in the dozen?’.. ‘Well,’ said Ford, modest and hesitant, ‘that's talking about your mommer.’ 1942 Z. N. Hurston Dust Tracks on Road xii. 225 The bookless may have difficulty in reading a paragraph in a newspaper, but when they get down to ‘playing the dozens’ they have no equal in America. 1942 Amer. Notes & Queries 1 156/1 ‘Playing the Dozens’... This is a widely used phrase among the Negroes in North Carolina (and very likely in most of the South). 1962 R. D. Abrahams in A. Dundes Mother Wit (1973) 299 One will..find girls making dozens-type remarks. 1970 R. D. Abrahams Positively Black iv. 88 He got your whole family in the dozens and your sister on the shelf. 1971 B. Malamud Tenants 131 ‘Chum,’ he said,..‘we have a game we got we call the dozens.’ 1973 Black World Aug. 58/2 Could play the dozens for days, talk about your momma bad enough to make you cry. 1978 Amer. Poetry Rev. July–Aug. 44/3 All you have to do to keep them in their proper place, which is deep in the dozens, is to pat your feet and snap your fingers. 1983 J. E. Wideman in Callaloo Feb. 46 I don't say anything nasty about Brother, but there is no sense in putting anybody in the dozens. 1984 Maledicta 1983 7 183 Many cultures have cursing and counter-cursing games, such as the Black American ‘dozens’. The purpose of the dozens is to test the participants' ability to take abuse without reacting. The participants must have a response, they must not show hurt, and they must not react with violence. 1990 S. Morgan Homeboy xix. 123 The style was walkin' slow, drinkin' plenty of water, and doin' your own time; the art was lightin' cigarets from wall sockets, playin' the dozens, cuttin' up dream jackpots, and slowin' your metabolism to a crawl. < as lemmas |
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