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hot cockles

noun

  1. a children's game in which a blindfolded player is hit by one of the other players and then tries to guess which one did the hitting.


hot cockles

noun

  1. functioning as singular (formerly) a children's game in which one blindfolded player has to guess which other player has hit him
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of hot cockles1

First recorded in 1540–50
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It's an unoriginal set-up with a predictable narrative arc, but the sparky, snappy yapping between the two leads delivers consistent laughs and inevitable hot cockles.

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The games of hot cockles and ...

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Amongst them I may name “The Virgin and Child, with St. John and the Lamb”; three girls playing a game then called “hot cockles”; “A youth riding on a white horse”; “Child seated amongst vines and grapes”; “The Virgin and St. Joseph proceeding to their marriage at the Temple”; two minstrels, such as usually accompany wedding parties; “The martyrdom of St. Sebastian;” “The Israelites preparing to leave Egypt”; “The Prophet Habakkuk awakened by the Angel”; “Three cupids with musical instruments.”

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My father, to do him justice as a true protestant, "an honest man who eat no fish," had not accustomed me to days of abstinence; but, as I had had no play all the morning, I found the boiled eggs and hot cockles very satisfactory, as well as amusing by their novelty.

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On the right a group are playing "hot cockles."

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