单词 | miggle |
释义 | migglen. U.S. regional. A marble, esp. one made from baked clay. Also (in plural): the game of marbles. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > marbles > [noun] marble1681 marloes1827 mig1886 miggle1890 long johns1970 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 1890 Dial. Notes 1 76 ‘Miggles’ is the generic name for marbles, also meaning the commonest clay marbles. 1906 Amer. Illustr. Mag. Mar. 562/1 Boys garner birds' eggs, door knobs, chalk, and miggles. 1940 Recreation (New York) 34 110 A list of the many games of marbles played throughout the country follows:..miggles, mibs. 1969 in Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. (1996) at Mig The plain ones [sc. marbles] are the ones that you try to hit the set-up with... Then the other guys would try to hit that set-up with the common marbles. But meanwhile all the common marbles you took in were yours, and that was miggles. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1890 |
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