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ring-a-ring|rɪŋəˈrɪŋ|
Also ringaring, etc.
[Fanciful extension of ring n.1]
A circle or circular movement. ring-a-ring o' roses (and variants), a game played by children holding hands in a circle (also transf.).
1881K. Greenaway Mother Goose 48 Ring-a-ring-a-roses, A pocket full of posies. 1922Joyce Ulysses 506 I'm a tiny tiny thing Ever flying in the spring Round and round a ringaring. 1927W. E. Collinson Contemp. Eng. 11, I can be brief in mentioning the various games we played during childhood. I will mention..ring a ring o' roses. 1945C. S. Forester Commodore xxiii. 259 The Governor.. tried to dance a sort of ring-a-ring-of-roses with the two Englishmen. 1953A. Clarke Moment Next to Nothing ii. 32 He Was near that oak, speaking of Marravaun—A ring-a-ring o' birds around him. 1957J. Masters Far, Far the Mountain Peak i. 5 Why don't I suggest a game of ring-a-ring-a-roses, or kiss-in-the-ring? 1963Times 30 May 4/2 England now were playing arrogant football and stroking the ball from man to man as though they were playing ring-a-ring-o'roses. 1972G. Green Great Moments in Sport: Soccer ii. 38 While the opposition was being enticed into these closely woven webs of ring-a-roses, two..of the front runners would be streaking ahead into the unguarded places. 1974Times 1 Apr. 1/8 Strong men blenched and broke into a sweat of embarrassment when made to dance ‘Ring-a-ring o' roses’ in public outside Guildhall. |