what's the meaning of "hickery oh"?i found this word also in "hickery dickery dock"..so is it only an inventend word for nursery rhyme?has it got a meaning?thank you all,ciao!!
2007-03-27 08:17:15 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
Hickory is a kind of tree, and wood. "Dickory" or "dickery" is a meaningless, made-up (invented) word.
2007-03-27 08:26:55 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Well my friend, Hickery is a type of wood, and yes the other is a nursery rhyme.
2007-03-27 08:21:55 · answer #2 · answered by newciderman 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's just a rhyming word and doesn't have a specific meaning. It is used in a children's nursery rhyme 'Hickory dickory dock, the mouse ran up the clock'.
Hope I was helpful :)
2007-03-30 02:42:07 · answer #3 · answered by Beccawte 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
in the nursery rhyme hickory dicory dock, mimics the sound of a clock, tick-tock, but so that it rhymes..
hickory if used on it's own is a type of wood
pendulums on clocks are not made of wood as stated above but normally of brass as they need to be extremly heavy
spero aiutarsi... ciao
2007-03-27 21:02:09 · answer #4 · answered by lion of judah 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
its just mimicking the sound a clock makes, sometimes we make up works to rhyme with things. it rhymes with clock, hence the nonsensical words. English is the hardest language to make rhymes with, unlike spanish and itallian and many other languages. so oft times rhymes are just made up words.
2007-03-27 08:20:13 · answer #5 · answered by savanna m 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ciao!
See my answer to your question on Answers Italia ...
it's just poetic onomatopeia, and a pun (gioco di parole) on "hickory", which is the type of wood from which pendulum clocks, to which this nursery rhyme refers, were made.
See this link ...
http://www.dltk-teach.com/rhymes/hickory/words.htm
2007-03-27 09:57:26 · answer #6 · answered by Cosimo )O( 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
I'm American and I think that this word has no exact meaning.
2007-03-27 08:20:50 · answer #7 · answered by singforhim1 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its a kind of wood or tree
2007-03-27 08:22:10 · answer #8 · answered by SEXTON KIDS S 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋