ring a ring o' roses

English - English

Definition of ring a ring o' roses in English English dictionary

a children's singing game in which the children join hands and dance round in a circle singing: Ring a ring o'roses/A pocket full of posies/A-tishoo! A-tishoo!/We all fall down. People believe it comes from the time when there was a plague in London (=a very serious infectious disease, quickly causing death to large numbers of people), because when people coughed and sneezed, saying 'atishoo', it was a sign that they had caught the plague

Ring-around-the-rosy

Turkish pronunciation

rîng ı rîng ō rōzîz

Pronunciation

/ˈrəɴɢ ə ˈrəɴɢ ˈō ˈrōzəz/ /ˈrɪŋ ə ˈrɪŋ ˈoʊ ˈroʊzɪz/