Marble Vocabulary From The Past & From Other Countries

[Geordies Liggies]

Thanks Steph, I'm glad you enjoyed it.

[Steph]

1926

"ring men"

"perfects"

Gotta add those -- and Geordies' names -- to the master list.

[Steph]

Current master list:

Current combined list:

agate, agates, aggie, aggies, allies, alley, alleys, bamboozler, blackies, blockbuster octopus, blockbusters, blood alley, bloodies, blue alley, blue candy stripes?, bolders, bowlers, bullseyes, chaney alleys, chinas, Chinas, chinee, Chinees, clayies, clearies, cloudies, combos, commies, commons, cornelian, crockie, crockies, crokers, crystals, doughie, doughies, ducks, Englishies, flinties, glass agate, glass agates, glassies, halfies, houses, kimmies, klogknocker (sp? clogknocker?), immies, knicks, man, megs, men, mibbs, mibs, middles, miggle, miggs, migs, milkies, mossies, nickers, pee-wees, peedabs, peewee's, peewees, perfects, pimples, plasters, plumpers, pot-eyes, potashes, potteries, pures, reallies, red eyes, red moonstone?, ring men, ringers, robin's eggs, root beer cleary, shooters, steelies, stony alleys, sugar-tops, taw, 3 line cleary, tiger-eyes, tolley, Tom, Tom troller, white alley,

-- including all the spelling variants and singulars and plurals even if that may seem silly -- just in case
-- the two question marks so far are because I wasn't sure whether the color was part of the name or just a description
-- some names may not represent what we use the words for now -- for example "blackies" may be different from Vitro's version



Current foreign terminology: gudes (Brazil), Torrah (Africa), bowls (England), bolitas (South America), "kicking the marbles" (China)

Geordie dialect, from Tyneside in NE England:

Liggies is an abbreviation of lignum vitae.
Boodies were clay marbles.
The penka was a large marble (up to 2.5 inches, used as a target).
Other terms used include marvils, muggles, alleys, parper, scudder and taws.
Blood alleys had red in the glass and snot alleys had white. A pop-alley was a pop bottle stopper used as a marble.

Source: A dictionary of North-east dialect 3rd Edition - Northumbria Press.

[Steph]

LOL @ all the spellings for peewees, and yet I still don't have all the ones I could. In 1883, they were spelled peawees.

Gotta add the names from the 1883 "Marbles and Where They Come from" --- http://marbleconnection.com/topic/6682-marbles-and-where-they-come-from-1883/

[Steph]

Add "cochonnet" as a French word for shooter.  

See comments here: 

 

[Steph]

Just learned today that a French word for marble is "calot".  Plural "calots".  

[Steph]

@Marbleized, feel free to add your examples! 

[Marbleized]

The two that I remember were bombuchas (that word is the pidgin english in Hawaii for the word for "huge") and Peerees (not sure of the spelling--used to say it, not spell it) that many refer to clearies.  I can't remember the others.  I also remember that we used to have a lot of cat eyes and marble kings.  I think our cat eyes came from Japan a lot of times.