| 单词 |
hinch-pinch |
| 释义 |
† hinch-pinch Obs. or dial.
[app. a modified reduplication of pinch, to express some kind of alternate action: see hinch. (App. unconnected with obs. Du. hincke-pinck lame, limping.)]
The name of some rustic game.
1603Harsnet Pop. Impost. 33 Fitting complement for Hynch pynch and Laugh not, Coale under Candlesticke: Frier Rush and Two-penny-hoe. Ibid. 134 The bowle of Curds and Creame..set out for Robin Good-fellow, the Frier, and Sisie the Dairy-maide to meet at hinch-pinch and laugh not, when the Goodwife was abed. 1611Cotgr., Pinse morille, the game called Hinch pinch and laugh not.
[Cf. the following: 1893 Northumbld. Gloss., Hinchy-pinchy, a game in which the play is begun gently, and gradually increased in intensity. Boy: ‘Aa'll play ye at hinchy-pinchy’. Strikes gently his companion, who returns the blow, until it becomes a fight. The term is also employed in games of leaping, where the first player gives an easy leap, and each succeeding player exceeds the leap of his predecessor. Dr. R. J. Lloyd says: ‘Liverpool children have a rime, used in play, ‘Hinchy-binchy, barley straw, Forty pinches is the law’’.] |
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