pickie Sc. and Ir. local.
(ˈpɪkɪ)
Also pickey.
[f. pick n.4 + -y6, -ie.]
Hopscotch. Also pl. (const. sing.). Also Comb.
| 1885 ‘J. Strathesk’ More Bits from Blinkbonny ii. 33 The ‘pickies’ (or the ‘beds’, or the ‘Pall-all’), played with a flat stone on the pavement. 1906 N.E.D. s.v. pick sb.4 3 a. 1922 Joyce Ulysses 76 With careful tread he passed over a hopscotch court with its forgotten pickeystone. |