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Noun
eeny, meeny, miny, moe (uncountable)
- A children's counting-out game
- 1959, John Knowles, A Separate Peace, chapter 3,
- "...As for this thing," ... he held up the shuttlecock, contaminated, in his outstretched right [hand], "this idiot tickler, the only thing it's good for is eeny-meeny-miney-mo."
- 1985, Lawrence Durrell, Quinx, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 1252:
- ‘Well,’ said Lord Galen in some dismay, ‘I suppose we shall have to cast lots or play at Eeni Meeni Mina Mo?’
Translations
similar children's counting-out games in other languages
- Arabic: please add this translation if you can
- Bulgarian: ала бала ница турска паница, ой гиди Ванчо наш капитанчо (bg) (ála bála nica túrska paníca, oj gídi Vánčo naš kapitánčo)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 點指兵兵點著誰人做大兵
- Mandarin: 一二三四五，上山打老虎 (cmn) (yī èr sān sì wǔ, shàngshān dǎ lǎohǔ) ("12345, climb a mountain and beat a tiger"), 你拍一，我拍一，一隻小貓坐飛機 (cmn), 你拍一，我拍一，一只小猫坐飞机 (cmn) (nǐ pāiyī, wǒ pāiyī, yī zhī xiǎomāo zuò fēijī) ("You clap, I clap, a kitten boards a plane.")
- Dutch: iene miene mutte (nl)
- Finnish: entten-tentten-teelika-mentten (fi)
- French: ams tram gram (fr)
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- German: ene mene mu (de)
- Italian: Igne migne magna mo (it)
- Japanese: please add this translation if you can
- Korean: please add this translation if you can
- Norwegian: elle melle (no)
- Portuguese: uni, duni, tê (pt) m
- Russian: эни бени рес, квинтер финтер жес, эни бени ряба, квинтер финтер жаба (ru) (éni béni rés, kvínter fínter žés, éni béni rjába, kvínter fínter žába)
- Spanish: detín, marín, dedó, pingüé (es) (Colombia), una, dole, tele, catole (es) (Spain)
- Swedish: ole, dole, doff (sv)
- Thai: please add this translation if you can
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