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come-come

English translation: fortune teller

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Spanish term or phrase:come-come
English translation:fortune teller
Entered by: Wendy Gosselin

16:31 Jan 14, 2019
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Spanish term or phrase: come-come
This is from a Chilean art education handbook for children:

Esta técnica de origen japonés, que permite plegar hojas de papel para construir figuras de diverso tipo, resulta un lenguaje plástico familiar a la mayor parte de los niños presentes: tal y como lo demuestran los diversos «actos educativos» con los que inicia lúdicamente cada sesión, todos los alumnos han tenido alguna experiencia en papiroflexia, al realizar barquitos, aviones o come-come de papel

Is it cones to hold French fries??

Thanks!
Wendy Gosselin
Argentina
Local time: 01:09
fortune teller
Explanation:
As you might expect, there are a number of terms in both Spanish and English for this children's game that uses a folded piece of paper.

A fortune teller (also called a cootie catcher,[1][2] chatterbox,[3] salt cellar,[4][5] whirlybird,[3] or paku-paku[6]) is a form of origami used in children's games. Parts of the fortune teller are labelled with colors or numbers that serve as options for a player to choose from, and on the inside are eight flaps, each concealing a message.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_fortune_teller


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Robert Carter
Mexico
Local time: 22:09
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THANKS
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4 +7fortune teller
Robert Carter
3paper fortune teller
Ana Vozone


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fortune teller


Explanation:
As you might expect, there are a number of terms in both Spanish and English for this children's game that uses a folded piece of paper.

A fortune teller (also called a cootie catcher,[1][2] chatterbox,[3] salt cellar,[4][5] whirlybird,[3] or paku-paku[6]) is a form of origami used in children's games. Parts of the fortune teller are labelled with colors or numbers that serve as options for a player to choose from, and on the inside are eight flaps, each concealing a message.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paper_fortune_teller




Robert Carter
Mexico
Local time: 22:09
Native speaker of: Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 32
Grading comment
THANKS

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  neilmac: I remember these, but not the name. Sounds about right though....
1 min
  -> Thanks, Neil, I couldn't remember the name either, I looked up "children's game with origami" and it was one of the first entries.
agree  Ana Vozone
2 mins
  -> Thanks, Ana.
agree  Charles Davis: In Spanish it's more often called a come-cocos. Same thing. // Here's one from Argentina: "Come — Come o Comecocos", but the latter is still the primary term: http://www.oei.org.ar/a/Cuaderno_8.pdf (p. 44; p. 46 of file) // Me too
4 mins
  -> Thanks, Charles, yes, I've been trying to find a decent reference for "come come", but most of the hits I get are for "come cocos".//Thanks very much, Charles. Perhaps it's a loan word from Brazil; I found a lot of references in Portuguese.
agree  Manuel Bas y Mansilla: I guess chatterbox is the most common one.
18 mins
  -> Thanks, Manuel. I simply can't remember, myself, although "whirlybird" sounds familiar.
agree  philgoddard
39 mins
  -> Thanks, Phil.
neutral  MollyRose: Neutral only because I want to comment. I remember these! But I never knew they had a name.
6 hrs
  -> Me neither. Thanks, Molly :-)
agree  Andrea Shah: Not sure of Wendy's target audience, but as a kid in the States in the 90s, we called them simply "fortune tellers."
1 day 2 hrs
agree  Yvonne Gallagher
1 day 19 hrs
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