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单词 housey-housey
释义

housey-houseyn.

Brit. /ˌhaʊzɪˈhaʊzi/, /ˌhaʊsɪˈhaʊsi/, U.S. /ˈˌhaʊziˈhaʊzi/, /ˈˌhaʊsiˈhaʊsi/
Forms:

α. 1900s– housee-housee, 1900s– housee-housee-housee, 1900s– housey-housey, 1900s– housie-housie, 1900s– housy-housy.

β. 1900s– housee, 1900s– housey, 1900s– housie.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: house n.1, -y suffix6.
Etymology: < house n.1 (compare house n.1 14) + -y suffix6 + house n.1 + -y suffix6. In β. forms shortened < α. forms.
= house n.1 14. Also: a call to attract players to this. Frequently attributive.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > bingo or lotto > [noun]
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keno1814
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1916 M. A. Muegge War Diary of Square Peg 15 Aug. (1920) 76 Innumerable parties of ‘Housie-Housie’.
1936 F. Richards Old-Soldier Sahib iii. 69 To draw a crowd they would shout: ‘Housee, housee, housee!’
1945 Penguin New Writing 26 30 He was shouting numbers hoarsely from the Housey-Housey stall.
1949 E. de Mauny Huntsman in Career 163 Someone started up a ‘housey’ school.
1964 A. Wykes Gambling x. 249 The call used to assemble a group for a game of house was ‘housey-housey’.
2000 A. Taylor Where Roses Fade (2003) xl. 283 On Thursday nights, his auntie goes off to play housey-housey at the King's Head, so there's no risk of interruption.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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