α. 1900s– housee-housee, 1900s– housee-housee-housee, 1900s– housey-housey, 1900s– housie-housie, 1900s– housy-housy.
β. 1900s– housee, 1900s– housey, 1900s– housie.
单词 | housey-housey |
释义 | housey-houseyn.α. 1900s– housee-housee, 1900s– housee-housee-housee, 1900s– housey-housey, 1900s– housie-housie, 1900s– housy-housy. β. 1900s– housee, 1900s– housey, 1900s– housie. = house n.1 14. Also: a call to attract players to this. Frequently attributive. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > bingo or lotto > [noun] lotto1778 keno1814 house1900 housey-housey1916 bingo1936 hoy1965 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). < n.1916 |
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