单词 | pom-pom-pull-away |
释义 | pom-pom-pull-awayn. Originally and chiefly North American. Any of various children's chasing games similar to tag.The reciting of the chant given in quot. 1883, or a variant of it, is generally a feature of the game. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > hiding or chasing game > [noun] > tag tick1622 hide-and-seek1724 tag1738 tig1816 touch-last1825 touch1828 widdy widdy way1832 touch and run1844 tiggy1845 widdy1859 Tommy Touchwood1876 pom-pom-pull-away1883 pull-away1883 squat tag1883 stoop tag1898 he1900 it1969 shadow tag1969 1883 N.Y. Times 30 Dec. 5/1 After prison goal came, in the order of popularity, pom pom pullaway... It was usually called pullaway, and that may be the correct name of it. The game was rather one-sided and rather rough. One man stood about the middle of the ground..and the rest gathered in a line on one side of the ground. Then when it was played as it ought to be, the man in the middle of the ground sung out ‘Pom, pom, pullaway; Come quick or I'll fetch you away.[’] And how they came! 1900 Sunday State Jrnl. (Lincoln, Nebraska) 16 Dec. 16/3 We have resolved our government into a grand game of ‘pum, pum, pull away’. 1922 Sheboygan (Wisconsin) Press-Telegram 26 May 12/2 Bill..was in great demand in..being ‘it’ for pump-pump-pull-away and other games. 1933 R. Marshall Arctic Village xxv. 208 Eskimo children..greatly enjoy games like ‘motion’ and ‘pump-pump-pullaway’, which they have been taught in school. 1977 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 24 Mar. 8/1 ‘Beer goes with baseball.’ That is no more idiotic than insisting heroin goes with hopscotch or pot with pum-pum-pullaway. 1997 Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (Nexis) 27 Mar. 1 a The game in John Thomas' south Minneapolis neighborhood was called pom-pom pull-away and the object..was to run from one place to another, evading pursuers. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1883 |
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