cat's-cradlen.

Forms: Also cat-cradle.

Etymology: Origin probably fanciful: the guess that it ‘may have been’ cratch-cradle is not founded on facts.

A children's game in which two players alternately take from each other's fingers an intertwined cord so as always to produce a symmetrical figure.

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1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature (1852) I. 388 An ingenious play they call cat's cradle; one ties the two ends of a packthread together, and then winds it about his fingers, another with both hands takes it off perhaps in the shape of a gridiron, the first takes it from him again in another form, and so on alternately changing the packthread into a multitude of figures whose names I forget, it being so many years since I played at it myself.

1823 C. Lamb Christ's Hosp. in Elia 41 Weaving those ingenious parentheses, called cat-cradles.

1867 A. Trollope Last Chron. Barset II. lxvii. 246 Old Mr. Harding..was in bed playing cat's-cradle with Posy.

attributive.1824 Edinb. Rev. 40 84 One of those cats-cradle reasoners who never see a decided advantage in any thing but indecision.1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 29 Sept. 3/2 The senseless accidents, and cat's-cradle plots of old romance.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	cats-cradle
释义	cat's-cradlen. Forms: Also cat-cradle. Etymology: Origin probably fanciful: the guess that it ‘may have been’ cratch-cradle is not founded on facts. A children's game in which two players alternately take from each other's fingers an intertwined cord so as always to produce a symmetrical figure. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > other children's games > [noun] > cat's cradle cat's-cradle1768 scratch-cradle1822 string game1879 1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature (1852) I. 388 An ingenious play they call cat's cradle; one ties the two ends of a packthread together, and then winds it about his fingers, another with both hands takes it off perhaps in the shape of a gridiron, the first takes it from him again in another form, and so on alternately changing the packthread into a multitude of figures whose names I forget, it being so many years since I played at it myself. 1823 C. Lamb Christ's Hosp. in Elia 41 Weaving those ingenious parentheses, called cat-cradles. 1867 A. Trollope Last Chron. Barset II. lxvii. 246 Old Mr. Harding..was in bed playing cat's-cradle with Posy. attributive.1824 Edinb. Rev. 40 84 One of those cats-cradle reasoners who never see a decided advantage in any thing but indecision.1887 Pall Mall Gaz. 29 Sept. 3/2 The senseless accidents, and cat's-cradle plots of old romance. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1768
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