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Webster 1913 Edition
Bob-cherry
Bob′-cherˊry
,Noun.
A play among children, in which a cherry, hung so as to bob against the mouth, is to be caught with the teeth.
Definition 2025
bob-cherry
bob-cherry
English
Alternative forms
- bob cherry
- bobcherry
Noun
- A play where one tries to snap at a swinging cherry with one's mouth.
- Christina G. Rosetti, "A NURSERY RHYME BOOK", 1893
- Playing at bob cherry
- Tom and Nell and Hugh:
- Cherry bob! cherry bob!
- There's a bob for you.
- Tom bobs a cherry
- For gaping snapping Hugh,
- While curly-pated Nelly
- Snaps at it too.
- Christina G. Rosetti, "A NURSERY RHYME BOOK", 1893