peevers
The Scottish word for hopscotch — the classic children's pavement game where players toss a stone and hop through numbered squares chalked on the ground.
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The Scottish word for hopscotch — the classic children's pavement game where players toss a stone and hop through numbered squares chalked on the ground. While the rest of the English-speaking world says hopscotch, Scottish kids grew up calling it peevers, and the word carries all the nostalgia of postwar street play. The "peever" itself can also refer to the stone or marker used in the game.
On dry afternoons the whole street would be covered in chalk squares where the girls played peevers until teatime.
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(Scotland) hopscotch.
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