单词 | hopscotch |
释义 | hopscotchn. A children's game, consisting in hopping on one foot and driving forward with it a flat stone, fragment of a slate or tile, etc., from one compartment to another of an oblong figure traced out on the ground, so as always to hop over or clear each scotch or line. Also called hop-score n., hop-scot n., and (earlier) Scotch hoppers n. at scotch n.1 Compounds. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > other children's games > [noun] > hopscotch spurn-point1532 Scotch hoppersa1672 hop-scot1789 pallall1799 hopscotch1801 hop-crease1803 Scotch hob1823 hop-score1829 pickie1884 potsy1905 1801 J. Strutt Glig-gamena Angel-ðeod iv. iv. 339 Among the school~boys in my memory there was a pastime called Hop-Scotch. 1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast xxiii. 72 Playing hopscotch and other games on the hard sand. 1886 American 12 140 It would seem that the well-known boys' game of ‘hop~scotch’ dates back to the beginning of the Christian era. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1801 |
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