英语词汇“water my chickens”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

†P3. water my chickens (come cluck): a children's game in which a number of players, taking the role of ‘chickens’, line up behind another player, the ‘hen’, and advance on another, the ‘old woman’, while singing or chanting the line ‘Water my chickens, come cluck! cluck! cluck!’; this line as sung or chanted in the game. Obsolete.In quot. 1749 as a line in a song.

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1749 Thrush 48 Who said my Child was piss'd all? Come water my Chickens, come clock.]

1766 H. Brooke Fool of Quality II. xii. 210 One fault brought me into another after it, like Water my chickens come clock.

1844 C. Long Sir Roland Ashton II. i. 11 To proceed—after the manner of the old hen in ‘Water my chickens’, (how I should like to play at that game once more in my life) I ask, what is the ‘crochet’ work for?

1876 M. A. Mackarness Young Lady's Bk. 271 They..sing the following words as they advance towards the old woman: ‘Water my chickens, come, cluck! cluck! cluck!’

单词	water my chickens
释义	> as lemmas water my chickens (come cluck) †P3. water my chickens (come cluck): a children's game in which a number of players, taking the role of ‘chickens’, line up behind another player, the ‘hen’, and advance on another, the ‘old woman’, while singing or chanting the line ‘Water my chickens, come cluck! cluck! cluck!’; this line as sung or chanted in the game. Obsolete.In quot. 1749 as a line in a song. ΚΠ 1749 Thrush 48 Who said my Child was piss'd all? Come water my Chickens, come clock.] 1766 H. Brooke Fool of Quality II. xii. 210 One fault brought me into another after it, like Water my chickens come clock. 1844 C. Long Sir Roland Ashton II. i. 11 To proceed—after the manner of the old hen in ‘Water my chickens’, (how I should like to play at that game once more in my life) I ask, what is the ‘crochet’ work for? 1876 M. A. Mackarness Young Lady's Bk. 271 They..sing the following words as they advance towards the old woman: ‘Water my chickens, come, cluck! cluck! cluck!’ extracted from waterv. < as lemmas
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