bob-cherry
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- A game where one tries to snap at a swinging cherry with one's mouth.
- 1893, Christina G. Rosetti, A NURSERY RHYME BOOK:
- Playing at bob cherry
Tom and Nell and Hugh:
Cherry bob! cherry bob!
There's a bob for you.
Tom bobs a cherry
For gaping snapping Hugh,
While curly-pated Nelly
Snaps at it too.