{{Short description|Children's game played in Manchester, England}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''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";{{sfnp|George|1992|p=322|ps=}} 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,{{sfnp|Manchester court leet|1884|p=205|ps=}} an indication of the disruption and damage it caused in the streets of industrial areas such as Ardwick.{{sfnp|Cooper|2007|p=17|ps=}}
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'''Bibliography''' {{refbegin}} *{{citation |last=Cooper |first=Glynis |title=Manchester's Suburbs |year=2007 |publisher=Breedon Books |isbn=978-1-85983-592-0}} *{{citation |last=George |first=David |title=Lancashire (Records of Early English Drama) |year=1992 |publisher=University of Toronto Press |isbn=978-0-8020-2862-4 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/lancashire0000unse }} *{{citation |last=Manchester court leet |title=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 |year=1884 |editor-last=Earwaker |editor-first=John Parsons |editor-link=John Parsons Earwaker |publisher=Oxford University}} {{refend}}
Category:Children's games