| 单词 |
up Jenkins |
| 释义 |
up Jenkins|ʌp ˈdʒɛŋkɪnz|
[f. up adv.1 + the surname Jenkins.]
The name of a parlour game resembling tip-it.
1889K. Greenaway Bk. Games 25 Up Jenkins. The company divide into two parties and sit round a table. One party then puts their hands under the table and a shilling or other small article is placed in one of the palms. The other side then calls out: ‘Up Jenkins!’ and the players whose side has the shilling concealed must all place their closed hands on the table. The opposite side must then guess in which hand the shilling is concealed. 1916D. H. Lawrence Twilight in Italy 193 Afterwards we played ‘Up, Jenkins’. 1928E. Waugh Decline & Fall iii. iv. 255 ‘I must ask you both to put your hands on the table in front of you,’ said the warden. ‘Like Up Jenkins,’ said Margot faintly. 1933S. Jameson Day Off 83 They played Up Jenkins, in which a button is passed frenziedly from hand to hand. 1946L. P. Hartley Sixth Heaven viii. 164 They..pressed their hands on the table as if for ‘Up Jenkins’. 1951S. Spender World within World iii. 144 Sometimes he would play childish games such as ‘Up Jenkins’. 1981P. Theroux Mosquito Coast xvi. 212 We played Up Jenkins on the Gallery floor. |
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