Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A child's play consisting in catching with the teeth a cherry or other fruit hung from the ceiling, lintel of a door, or other high place, as it swings to and fro.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A play among children, in which a cherry, hung so as to bob against the mouth, is to be caught with the teeth.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A play where one tries to snap at a swinging cherry with one's mouth.
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Examples
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Cookie in an emerald green moirette petticoat and a somewhat _déclassé_ bedjacket, a tight knot of hair playing bob-cherry with her kindly right blue eye, and a rolling-pin clutched truculently in her red right hand.
Leonie of the Jungle Joan Conquest
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While the others were going through the splendid stables and cowsheds, kept like a queen's parlour, he and the pretty girl were playing at bob-cherry in the saloon, to the scandal of Yerkes, who, with the honour of the car and the C.P.R. and Canada itself on his shoulders, could not bear that any of his charges should shuffle out of the main item in the official programme.
Lady Merton, Colonist Humphry Ward 1885
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Without it -- Harry 'll excuse me, I must speak plainly -- you're a sort of a spectacle of a bob-cherry, down on your luck, up on your luck, and getting dead stale and never bitten; a familiar curiosity'
The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Volume 6 George Meredith 1868
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Fronting a creature that would vainly assail him, and temporarily escape impalement by bounding and springing, dodging and backing, now here now there, like a dangling bob-cherry, his military gorge rose with a sickness of disgust.
Vittoria — Complete George Meredith 1868
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Without it -- Harry 'll excuse me, I must speak plainly -- you're a sort of a spectacle of a bob-cherry, down on your luck, up on your luck, and getting dead stale and never bitten; a familiar curiosity'
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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Without it -- Harry 'll excuse me, I must speak plainly -- you're a sort of a spectacle of a bob-cherry, down on your luck, up on your luck, and getting dead stale and never bitten; a familiar curiosity'
The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Complete George Meredith 1868
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Fronting a creature that would vainly assail him, and temporarily escape impalement by bounding and springing, dodging and backing, now here now there, like a dangling bob-cherry, his military gorge rose with a sickness of disgust.
Vittoria — Volume 5 George Meredith 1868
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Fronting a creature that would vainly assail him, and temporarily escape impalement by bounding and springing, dodging and backing, now here now there, like a dangling bob-cherry, his military gorge rose with a sickness of disgust.
Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith George Meredith 1868
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Yes, I will play at bob-cherry with them, hold the bait to their nose which they are never to gorge upon!
Woodstock 1855
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The Doctor made no reply, but examined the finger: Jack Easy continued to play bob-cherry with his right hand.
Mr. Midshipman Easy Frederick Marryat 1820
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