单词 | touch-last |
释义 | touch-lastn. Now rare. The children's game of ‘tag’ (tag n.2 1). Also figurative. Cf. touch n. 6f. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > hiding or chasing game > [noun] > tag tick1622 hide-and-seek1724 tag1738 tig1816 touch-last1825 touch1828 widdy widdy way1832 touch and run1844 tiggy1845 widdy1859 Tommy Touchwood1876 pom-pom-pull-away1883 pull-away1883 squat tag1883 stoop tag1898 he1900 it1969 shadow tag1969 1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Tig,..A game among children, in which one strikes another and runs off... This game in S[cotland] is the same with Touchlast in E[ngland]. 1902 Little Folks Aug. 113/1 Let's play ‘Touch last’. Look out, I'm ‘He’! 1927 Sunday Express 17 July 8/2 The younger and sprightlier guests..played ‘touch last’ on the lawn. 1995 C. Sanger Malcolm MacDonald xl. 430 He wrote happily of..fox cubs playing a game of ‘touch last’ on the lawn. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1825 |
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