| 释义 |
dreidel, n. Chiefly N. Amer.|ˈdreɪdəl|
Also dredle, dreidl.
[a. Yiddish dreydl, f. MHG. dræ(je)n to turn (G. drehen).]
a. A four-sided spinning-top, with one of the Hebrew letters nun, gimel, he, and shin on each face, used chiefly in a children's game played esp. at the Jewish festival of Hanukkah.
b. The game, resembling put-and-take, played with this top.
1934S. Mazer Yossele's Holiday 50 The belfer will soon be here with the dredles. Your father left you Hanukkah money, and you may buy one. 1940B. M. Edidin Jewish Holidays & Festivals vi. 97 The younger children are playing trendel or dreidel. This is a four-winged spinning top with four Hebrew letters. 1944Pessin & Gezari Jewish Kindergarten 150 These dreidels, you see, are Chanuko dreidels. Ibid., She takes this occasion to teach them a dreidel song. 1964Reading Teacher Dec. 209/2 The daughter of two white Anglo-Saxon Protestants (wasps, familiarly) may come home from kindergarten talking of dreidels. 1966R. H. Rimmer Harrad Experiment (1967) 92, I spun the dreidl and lost..lost all my candy down the well. 1978I. B. Singer Shosha viii. 148 When I play the game of dreidel with myself and the dreidel falls on the same letter five or six times because I will it to do so, I can assume that it happened by chance. 1985N.Y. Times 6 Dec. b6/3 Children spin dreidels, four-sided tops that contain the acronym of the Hebrew words for, ‘A great miracle happened there’. |