| 单词 | frog over an old dog |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfrog over an old dog P2. In names of games, as frog in the middle (also meadow), frog over an old dog. Now chiefly historical.See also leap-frog n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > other children's games > [noun] > leap-frog leap-frog1600 truss1627 cock-horse1648 truss-a-faila1658 skip-frog1699 hop-frog1720 frog in the middle (also meadow)1790 fly-the-garter1818 frog over an old dog1847–78 1790 E. Wynne Diary 2 Jan. in A. Fremantle Wynne Diaries (1935) I. 21 Nous avons tous joué Blindmans Buff, Quatre Coins, Frog-in-the-Middle, Slippers, [etc.]. 1801 J. Strutt Glig-gamena Angel-ðeod iv. iv. 293 Another [game] equally..well known with us, and called Frog in the middle. 1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words Frog over an old dog, leap-frog, list of games, Rawl. MS. 1900 Living Age 13 Jan. 128/1 [Young] children..derive great enjoyment from ‘Frog in the Middle’... One child sits in the middle of the ring, while the others take hands and dance around her singing ‘Frog in the middle, she dare not catch me.’ 1998 T. Olson Blue Ridge Folklife 73 The Blue Ridge ring game called ‘frog in the meadow’. < as lemmas |
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