knucklebones
- noun
- /ˈnʌkəlˌboʊnz/
- UK
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juego de knucklebones
- My grandmother taught me how to play knucklebones when I was little.
Examples
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The rules of knucklebones have remained almost unchanged for generations.
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Can you teach me how to play knucklebones?
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Children gathered on the playground to play knucklebones during recess.
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The children played knucklebones during recess.
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Children gathered on the playground to play knucklebones during recess.
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My grandmother taught me how to play knucklebones when I was little.
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The rules of knucklebones have remained almost unchanged for generations.
Synonyms
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A children's game where you throw small objects, bounce a rubber ball, and pick them up
A children's game of throwing and picking up small objects between ball bounces
A children's game of tossing and catching small stones similar to jacks
Surface Forms
Morphology
knucklebones = knucklebone (transparent) = knuckle + bone + s
The plural is a regular -s on the compound 'knucklebone', and the compound's meaning is directly the bones of the knuckle used in the game.
Etymology
Knucklebones comes from the fact that players once used small animal knuckle bones as the playing pieces, so the word is simply knuckle + bones. So today knucklebones names the children's game where you throw and pick up small pieces, much like the modern game of jacks.