hot cockles
Meanings
noun
- a children's game in which a blindfolded person had to guess who was hitting them.
Word forms
Etymology
From French hautes-coquilles. Compare French main chaude (“hot hand”), referring to the same game. By surface analysis, hot + cockle.
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