| 单词 | tiggy touchwood |
| 释义 | > as lemmastiggy (or tiggery) touchwood The children's game ‘tig’; the player who is ‘it’. Also tiggy (or tiggery) touchwood, a version of the game in which players can only be caught when they are not touching a tree, piece of wood, etc. (see touch v. Phrases 2f(a)). 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 society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > hiding or chasing game > [noun] > tag > pursuer tiggy1845 tagger1891 tigger1893 1845 in I. Opie & P. Opie Children's Games (1969) i. 23 The boy he has touched is made ‘tiggy’ until he can pay the compliment to some other boy. 1865 W. S. Banks List Provinc. Words Wakefield 74 Tiggery touch wood, a children's game, wherein one who ‘has the tiggs’ tries to ‘tigg’ some other who is not touching wood or does not claim bail or ‘barley’. 1888 S. O. Addy Gloss. Words Sheffield 260 Tiggy-touchwood,..one of them, who is called Tiggy, stands out, and each of the other children takes hold of or touches a piece of wood... One of the children then leaves his ‘wood’, and runs across the play-ground, [etc.]. 1894 R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words Tiggy, the game of tig. 1907 J. Donnan Hameland 3 Whiles we played at..‘tiggy touchwud’. 1983 P. Theroux Kingdom by Sea xxiv. 282 So I stayed the night in Cleethorpes and watched filthy children playing ‘Tiggy’. < as lemmas |
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