单词 | miggie |
释义 | miggien. British and U.S. regional. = miggle n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > marbles > [noun] > marble > types of nicker1675 alley1720 blood alley1821 commoney1837 Rouge Royal1837 peewee1848 stoney1856 knicker1860 bonce1862 plunker1863 dobber1875 agate1886 mig1886 glassy1887 miggle1890 shooter1892 aggie1896 knuckler1896 milkie1908 ghoen1913 miggie1916 immy1928 glarney1953 1916 N. Douglas London Street Games 110 It's a good while since I played [marbles], but I still remember the names of a few kinds—Toms, and Alleys, and Glarnies, and Miggies. 1943 B. Smith Tree grows in Brooklyn xxvii. 189 Neeley had a boxful of ‘miggies’, small brown and blue speckled marbles made of clay which cost a penny. 1958 Proc. Amer. Dial. Soc. 29 37 Miggey (miggie)... Miggle... Migs. 1976 Trans. Wisconsin Acad. Sci., Arts & Lett. June 20 We called the painted clay globes ‘miggies’.., and as we grew older disdained..them—only babies used them. 1997 I. Opie & P. Opie Children's Games with Things ii. 53 The regional names for marbles in general, during the mid-century, were..‘miggies’ in London N22, and Enfield, Middlesex. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1916 |
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