high cockalorum

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Synonym of cockalorum (“game resembling leapfrog”)

日本語の意味

英語の説明に基づくと、「high cockalorum」は、跳び返り遊び、すなわち『跳び蛙』や「けむり遊び」のような、跳躍を伴う遊びを指すと解釈されます。

英語の意味

Synonym of cockalorum (“game resembling leapfrog”)

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During recess the children organized a high cockalorum that left everyone laughing.

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休み時間に子どもたちは激しい馬跳びの遊びをして、みんなを笑わせた。

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Synonym of cockalorum (“game resembling leapfrog”)

When I went to Harrow, thirty years ago, I found a winter evening game in force there, called 'high cockalorum,' […] The players used to divide into two opposing bands of from twelve to fourteen each – in fact, the more the merrier. One side 'went down,' so as to constitute a long 'hogsback' – the last boy having a couple of pillows between himself and the wall, and each boy clasping his front rank man, and carefully tucking his own 'cocoa-nut' [i.e., head] under his right arm, so as to prevent fracture of the vertebrae. When the hogsback was thus formed, the other side came on, leapfrogging on to the backs of those who were down, the best and the steadiest jumpers being sent first. […]

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