Scottish National Dictionary (1700–)
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First published 1976 (SND Vol. X).
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BRIXERS LAST UP, n.phr. The name of a children's game at Cruden Bay in Abd.Abd. 1969 I. & P. Opie Children's Games 127:
One player stands mid-way between the two walls and the rest (‘there need to be more than twenty children for a decent game’) line up at one wall and have to run across to the other, keeping within agreed boundaries. Anyone touched while running from one wall to the other joins the catcher in the middle, as in the previous games, so that the balance gradually changes in the favour of the catchers.
[Brixer is for bricks-er, one from the families formerly employed at the brickworks at Cruden Bay.]
