ring-around-a-rosy
- noun
- /ˈrɪŋ əˌraʊnd ə ˈroʊzi/
- Baby Talk
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juego de la rueda
- The children played ring-around-a-rosy during recess and laughed as they all fell down.
Examples
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She taught her little brother how to play ring-around-a-rosy in the backyard.
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We sang ring-around-a-rosy while holding hands.
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At the party, even the shyest kids joined in a round of ring-around-a-rosy.
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The children played ring-around-a-rosy in the park.
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The children sang the rhyme and played ring-around-a-rosy during their outdoor games.
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At the family reunion, we all joined in a fun game of ring-around-a-rosy under the big oak tree.
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During summer camp, the counselors encouraged the kids to play ring-around-a-rosy before lunch.
Synonyms
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A children's game where players hold hands, walk in a circle, and fall down while singing
A children's game where players hold hands, move in a circle and fall down together
Surface Forms
Morphology
ring-around-a-rosy = ring + a + rosy (opaque) = around + ring + a + rosy
Although the individual words are literal, the fixed hyphenated phrase refers to a specific children's circle game and its meaning is not predictable from the components alone. [Postprocessing: moved 'around' from base_words to prefix]
Etymology
The word ring-around-a-rosy names a children's circle game and rhyme. One popular story says the rhyme goes back to a time of serious disease: the ring is a 'circle', rosy meant a 'red sore', and posies were small 'flowers' or 'herbs' people carried, so a helpful way to remember the game is to imagine children in a ring who then 'all fall down'.