Giddy-gaddy

Giddy-gaddy, also known as cat's pallet, was a children's game played in Manchester, England, almost certainly a variation on tip-cat. It involved "striking one end of a sharpened piece of wood causing it to rise and then driving it some distance with a stick";^[1] the object was to hit it as far as possible. The name "giddy-gaddy" for the game appears only in the court leet records of the manor of Manchester,^[2] an indication of the disruption and damage it caused in the streets of industrial areas such as Ardwick.^[3]

References

Notes

1. George (1992), p. 322
2. Manchester court leet (1884), p. 205
3. Cooper (2007), p. 17

Bibliography

• Cooper, Glynis (2007), Manchester's Suburbs, Breedon Books, ISBN 978-1-85983-592-0
• George, David (1992), Lancashire (Records of Early English Drama), University of Toronto Press, ISBN 978-0-8020-2862-4
• Manchester court leet (1884), Earwaker, John Parsons, ed., The Court leet records of the manor of Manchester, from 1552 to 1686, and from 1731 to 1846, pr. under the superintendence of a comm. appointed by the municipal council of the city of Manchester, Oxford University