hotcockles

See also: hot cockles

English

Etymology

From hot +‎ cockle, perhaps corrupted from knuckle. Compare French main chaude (“hot hand”), referring to the same game.

Noun

hotcockles (uncountable)

1. A children's game in which a blindfolded player tries to guess who hit him.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “hotcockles”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)