Sticks and Stones refers to a children`s rhyme (`Sticks and stones may break my bones / But names will never hurt me`), but the term may also refer to: Music Fiction Other ...[nursery rhyme] `Sticks and Stones` is an English language children`s rhyme. It persuades the child victim of name-calling to ignore the taunt, to refrain from physical retaliation, and to remain calm and good-natured. == First appearance == It is reported to have appeared in The Christian Recorder of March 1862, a publication of the Africa...
Sticks and stones is London Cockney rhyming slang for bones.