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HOODLE-CUM-BLIND—HOP-SCOTCH |
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under the same name, but with some variations. The Hood is not here carried away from the field, but to certain goals, against which it is struck three times and then declared free. This is called M wyking " the Hood, which is afterwards thrown up again for a fresh game.—Notes and Queries, 6th series, vii. 148.
See "Football," "Hockey."
Hoodle-cum-blind
Name for " Blind Man's Buff."—Baker's Northamptonshire Glossary.
Hoodman Blind
Name for "Blind Man's Buff." Mentioned in Hamlet, iii. 4; Merry Devil of Edmonton ; and Wise Women of Hogsden.
Hooper's Hide
Name for " Blind Man's Buff."—Nares' Glossary.
Hop-crease
The game of " Hop-scotch."—Halliwell's Dictionary.
Hop-frog-
The players bend as though about to sit on a very low stool, then spring about with their hands resting on their knees.— Dorsetshire (Folk-lore Journal, vii. 234).
Miss Peacock says that a game called " Hop-frog over the Dog " is played at Stixwould, Lincolnshire, in the same way as " Leap-frog."
See "Curcuddie," "Cutch-a-cutchoo," "Harie Hutcheon,"
" Hirtschin Hairy."
• Hop-score
Game of " Hop-scotch."—Hunter's Glossary of Hallamshire.
Hop-scotch
A game, the object of which is to eject a stone, slate, or "dump" out of a form linearly marked on the ground in different directions, by hopping without touching any of the lines.—Halliwell's Dictionary. |
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