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high cockalorum

high cockalorum noun: synonym of cockalorum (“game resembling leapfrog”).

Noun

high cockalorum (uncountable)

  1. Synonym of cockalorum (“game resembling leapfrog”).
    • When I went to Harrow, thirty years ago, I found a winter evening game in force there, called 'high cockalorum,' […] The players used to divide into two opposing bands of from twelve to fourteen each – in fact, the more the merrier. One side 'went down,' so as to constitute a long 'hogsback' – the...1890 January 4, Pall Mall Gazette, London: J. K. Sharpe, →OCLC, page 2, column 1
    Synonyms:
    cockalorum

Synonyms of high cockalorum

Questions about high cockalorum

What does high cockalorum mean?
High cockalorum means synonym of cockalorum (“game resembling leapfrog”).
What part of speech is high cockalorum?
High cockalorum is a noun.

Words near high cockalorum in the dictionary

  1. high church
  2. High Churchism
  3. high churchman
  4. high churchmanship
  5. high churchmen
  6. high cockalorum
  7. High Cogges
  8. high color
  9. high colour
  10. high colours
  11. high comedies

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