dame

dame c (singular definite damen, plural indefinite damer)

damen (definite singular)
damer (indefinite plural)
dame (indefinite nominative singular)
damen (definite nominative singular)
damer (indefinite nominative plural)
damerne (definite nominative plural)
dames (genitive indefinite singular)
damens (definite genitive singular)
damers (genitive indefinite plural)
damernes (definite genitive plural)


dame

nl-noun

dame f (plural dames, diminutive dametje n)

dames (plural)
dametje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: dame

From Middle Dutch dame, from Middle French dame, from Old French dame, from Latin domina.


dame

→ Catalan: dama

→ Friulian: dame

→ Galician: dama

→ German: Dame

→ Persian: دام (dâm)

desctree

→ Italian: dama
→ Ottoman Turkish: دامه (dama)
Turkish: dama
→ Armenian: տամա (tama)

→ Polish: dama

→ Portuguese: dama

→ Romanian: damă

→ Spanish: dama

Inherited from Old French dame, from Late Latin domna, shortened variant of Latin domina.

(in the plural) draughts (UK), checkers (US)


CD

en-noun

CD (countable and uncountable, plural CDs)

Abbreviation of various terms and phrases.


tre

From Latin trēs, from Proto-Italic *trēs, from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes. Compare Sicilian tri.


花

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (花):
* → Japanese: 花(か) (ka)
* → Korean: 화(花) (hwa)
* → Vietnamese: hoa (花)

→ Ai-Cham: hwa¹

→ Zhuang: va

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *hʷraː): semantic 艹 (“grass; plant”) + phonetic 化 (OC *hŋʷraːls). Originally 𠌶 or 華 before the Han dynasty.
Unclear. According to Schuessler (2007), either from:
* Proto-Sino-Tibetan *baːr (“bloom, flower”) and thus an example of possible *b ~ *w variation, with final -r moved to medial position. If so, cognate with 葩 (OC *pʰraː); outside Sinitic, compare Burmese ပန်း (pan:), Lepcha ᰓᰫᰲ (búr), Mizo páar. Sagart (2021) also connects it to 葩 (OC *pʰˤra), modifying Baxter and Sagart's (2014) reconstruction to *Cə-pʰˤra and proposing the sound changes *Cə-pʰ- > *Cə-ɸ- > *ɸ- > xw-.
* Or from Austroasiatic; compare Proto-Mon-Khmer *pkaaw ~ *pkaʔ (“flower, blossom”).
華 (OC *ɡʷraː, “to flower”) is a derivative.


colore

From Latin color, from Old Latin colos, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱel- (“to hide, conceal”).


血

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (血):
* → Vietnamese: huyết (血)

Characters in the same phonetic series (血) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意): 一 (“drop of blood”) + 皿 (“container”) - a drop of blood inside a chalice for sacrificial uses.
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *s-hjwəj-t (“blood”) (STEDT; Schuessler, 2007).
Baxter and Sagart (2014) reconstruct the Old Chinese as *m̥ˤik to account for word-family connections with 脈 (OC *C.mˤ[i]k, “vein”), 衊 (OC *mˤi[k], “defiled blood”) as well as its use as a phonetic component in 侐 (OC *m̥(r)ik, “still; quiet”), which is in the same word family as 宓 (OC *mi[k], “quiet; silent”) (Sagart, 1999b; Baxter and Sagart, 2017). Sagart (1999b) argues that this word is not genetically related to the Tibeto-Burman form with *s-hjw-, but that this word has been borrowed into Tibeto-Burman.

Han compound

血量


couleur

Borrowed from French couleur. Doublet of colour.

(card games) A suit of cards, in certain French card games.


couleur

→ Danish: kulør

→ Dutch: kleur

Afrikaans: kleur

→ English: couleur

→ German: Couleur

Haitian Creole: koulè

Louisiana Creole: koulær, koulè, koulèr

→ Low German: Klöör

→ German Low German: Klür

Norwegian:

→ Norwegian Bokmål: kulør

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: kulør

→ Swedish: kulör

→ West Frisian: kleur

Inherited from Middle French couleur, from Old French color, from Latin colōrem m.

des goûts et des couleurs, on ne discute pas


dartboard

/ˈdɑɹtbɔːɹd/

A board used as a target for throwing darts.


duo

eo-head

duo (accusative singular duon, plural duoj, accusative plural duojn)

duon (accusative singular)
duoj (plural)
duojn (accusative plural)


void

→ Welsh: foed

From Middle English voide, voyde, from Old French vuit, voide, vuide (modern vide), in turn from Vulgar Latin *vocitum, ultimately from Latin vacuus.

(bridge) Having no cards in a particular suit.


void

üreg

fluid mechanics: a pocket of vapour inside a fluid flow, created by cavitation

(bridge) The lack of cards in a particular suit.


FF

(video games) Initialism of Final Fantasy.


better

head

better (positive good, adverb well, comparative (humorous) betterer, superlative (humorous) betterest, or (standard) best)

good (positive)
well (adverb)
betterer (comparative humorous)
betterest (humorous superlative)
best (standard)

→ Jamaican Creole: beta

From Middle English better, bettre, betre, from Old English betera (“better”), from Proto-West Germanic *batiʀō, from Proto-Germanic *batizô (“better”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰed-rós, from *bʰed- (“good”).
Cognate with Sanskrit भद्र (bhadrá, “blessed, fortunate, happy, good”) (from *bʰn̥d-ró-s). For Germanic cognates: see Proto-Germanic *batizô. Related to best and battle (“getting better, improving, fruitful, fertile”). Compare also Icelandic batna (“to improve”), bót (“improvement”), German besser. More at batten, boot.
Persian بهتر (behtar) is a false cognate.

cog

[ˈbɛtʰɚ~ˈbɛθ̠ɚ~ˈbɛt̪ɚ]

[ˈbɛʔɚ~ˈbɛʔəɾ]

ودرتر

comparative of the adjectives good or well

khoẻ hơn

comparative form of "well", as in "healthier"

an ounce of prevention is better than an ounce of cure

an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure

better than a poke in the eye with a burnt stick

better than a poke in the eye with a rusty nail

better than a poke in the eye with a sharp stick

better than a poke in the eye with a shitty stick

better the devil you know than the devil you don't know

better the devil you know than the one you don't know

better to light a candle than to curse the darkness

better to light a single candle than to curse the darkness

better to light one candle than to curse the darkness

better to light one small candle than to curse the darkness

it is better to travel hopefully than to arrive

it's better to ask forgiveness than permission

it's better to be judged by twelve than to be carried by six

the devil we know is better than the devil we don't know

the devil you know is better than the devil you don't know

The top electric vehicles have a range of 300 kilometres or better. (better = greater)

Only one swimmer finished the race with a time better than two minutes. (better = lesser)

Greater or lesser (whichever is seen as more advantageous), in reference to value, distance, time, etc.


better

Alternative spelling of bettor or modern formation from the verb to bet + -er.

[ˈbɛtʰɚ~ˈbɛθ̠ɚ~ˈbɛt̪ɚ]

[ˈbɛʔɚ~ˈbɛʔəɾ]


親

From Old Japanese, from Proto-Japonic *əya. Cognate with or derived from Old Japanese verb 老ゆ (oyu, “to become old”, modern 老いる oiru), from the idea of one's elders.
First cited in the Kojiki of 712.

the child doesn't know the parent's heart

親の心子知らず: → the child doesn't know the pain they cause their parents

a parent's bright light is seven bright lights

親の光は七光: → a parent's social standing can be a huge influence on a person as they come into adulthood

(hanafuda, card games, by extension, board games) the dealer, (gambling) the banker


豚

豚 (canonical)
豚 (canonical)
buta (romanization)

Domestic pig
Muromachi period
Nihon Kokugo Daijiten
ja:ブタ

First attested in the mid-Muromachi period, some time in the late 1480s.
Derivation ultimately unknown.
Some sources list possible theories:
* A shift from 太 (futo, “fatty (fat individual), fatness”)
*: The vowel shift and voicing required to go from futo to buta seem problematic, considering Japanese sound shift patterns.
* Cognate with Okinawan ぶたさん (butasan, “fat”).
* An onomatopoeia from the sound the animal makes, realized in Japanese as ブー (bū)
*: The final -ta remains unexplained.
* Some combination of the two above
* A shift from 猪太 (ibuto, literally “swine + fatty”)
*: Attestable online, but not found in Japanese etymological resources. Difficult to judge provenance or timing.
* A borrowing from Korean or Mongolian
*: Neither Korean 돼지 (dwaeji, “pig”) nor Mongolian гахай (gaxaj, “pig”) show any phonological resemblance to buta, ruling out these possibilities.
The word butakal appears in several languages of the Philippines with a sense of boar (male pig), suggesting a possible source. However, any connection with an Austronesian language is only speculation.
The kanji is from Chinese 豚 (tún, “suckling pig”). Compare Japanese 猪 (inoshishi, “boar”) from Chinese 猪 (zhū, “pig”) and Japanese 猿 (saru, “monkey”) from Chinese 猿 (yuán, “ape”).

赤(あか)菱(びし)さんのカードは８(はち)とＪ(ジャック)のツーペア‥‥三(みつ)矢(や)さんはＡ(エース)のスリーカード 雲(くも)間(ま)さんはＱ(クイーン)のワンペア 緑(みとり)川(かわ)さんは役なし(ブタ)‥‥

2000 July 7 [2000 May 17], Seimaru Amagi with Sato, Fumiya, “FILE(ファイル) 1(いち) 殺(さつ)人(じん)ポーカー Unlucky Men in the Rain 〈問(もん)題(だい)編(へん)〉 [FILE 1: Murderous Poker: Unlucky Men in the Rain ‹Problem›]”, in 明智警視の優雅なる事件簿 [Superintendent Akechi Elegant Case Files], 3rd edition (fiction), Tokyo: Kodansha, →ISBN:

Akabishi-san’s hand would have a two pair, eights and jacks‥‥ Mitsuya-san’s a three of a kind, aces. Kumoma-san’s a one pair, queens. Midorikawa-san’s a high card...

Akabishi-san no kādo wa hachi to jakku no tsū-pea... Mitsuya-san wa ēsu no surī-kādo, Kumoma-san wa kuīn no wan-pea, Midorikawa-san wa buta...

ハイカード ハイカード#Japanese

(colloquial, poker) synonym of ハイカード (hai kādo, “high card”): a no pair, a hand without even a pair (probably a modification of the term for a zero-valued card hand)


dino

(video games, slang) A long-time participant in a multi-user dungeon.


角

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (角):
* → Japanese: 角(かく) (kaku)
* → Korean: 각(角) (gak)
* → Vietnamese: giác (角)

→ Khmer: កាក់ (kak)
→ English: kak

→ Thai: กั๊ก (gák)

→ Vietnamese: góc

/t͡ɕi̯ɑʊ̯²¹⁴/

/t͡ɕi̯ɑʊ̯²¹⁴/

Characters in the same phonetic series (角) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
Pictogram (象形) – a horn. A conservative version is 𧢲. Similar but unrelated to 甬, 用, and the bottom part of 備.
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *krəw (“horn; angle; corner”) (STEDT). Cognate with Tibetan རྭ (rwa, “horn”), Garo grong (“horn”), Jingpho nrung (“horn”), Chepang रोङः (roŋʔ, “horn”), 觡 (OC *kraːɡ, “antler”). The Tibeto-Burman *-ŋ final variant is reflected in 觥 (OC *kʷraːŋ, “drinking vessel made from animal horn”) (Schuessler, 2007). Possibly also related to 鹿 (OC *b·roːɡ, “deer”) (Sagart, 1999).
A derivative is 餃 (“stuffed dumpling”), named for its horn-like shape (Norman, 1988).
It is probably unrelated with Proto-Indo-European *ḱr̥h₂nós (“horn”) ( < *ḱerh₂- (“horn”)) and Proto-Semitic *ḳarn- (“horn”) despite the phonological and semantic resemblance between the three.

och-l

(gaming) Short for 角色 (juésè). (Classifier: 隻／只)


άλογο

álogo (romanization)
άλογα (plural)
alogína (romanization)
alóga (romanization)
άλογο (nominative singular)
άλογα (nominative plural)
αλόγου (genitive singular)
αλόγων (genitive plural)
άλογο (accusative singular)
άλογα (accusative plural)
άλογο (singular vocative)
άλογα (plural vocative)

For the animal, inherited from Koine Greek ἄλογον (álogon, “horse, cavalry”), neuter form of Ancient Greek ἄλογος (álogos, “unreasoning, speechless”, adjective).
For the unit of power, a semantic loan from Greek ίππος (íppos), from ancient Ancient Greek ἵππος (híppos, “horse”).

inh

ίππος ίππος#Greek

(chess) knight, a colloquial alternative of ίππος (íppos)


beta

en-noun

beta (countable and uncountable, plural betas)

From Ancient Greek βῆτα (bêta). Doublet of beth.

The company is offering a public beta program to test the software.

(uncountable) The phase of development after alpha testing and before launch, in which software, while not complete, has been released to potential users for testing.

He quickly deduced our goal—ship a quality beta—but he also quickly discerned that we had no idea about the quality of the product because of our pile of untriaged bugs.

2007, Michael Lopp, Managing Humans, page 107:

We will assume you got the .tgz version—later 2.x series versions such as 2.5.2 or 2.6.0 should be okay, provided they are production releases (not alphas, betas, or release candidates).

2007, Mark Summerfield, Rapid GUI Programming with Python and Qt: The Definitive Guide to PyQt Programming, Pearson Education, →ISBN:

Before Evolve had even seen its first beta, the game's publisher dipped its toe into presenting it as an eSport.

2015 February 14, Steven Strom, “Evolve Review: Middle of the food chain”, in Ars Technica:

(countable) Software in such a phase; a preliminary version.

beta levels; beta characters; beta items in a video game

(proscribed, uncountable) Any kind of content from early development that was not used in the final product.


cor

Inherited from Old Catalan cor, from Vulgar Latin *corem m, from Latin cor n.

dir-ho de tot cor

to say it with all the heart; to be sincere


casa

From Old Galician-Portuguese casa, from Latin casa.

(board games) a cell which may be occupied by a piece (such as a square in a chessboard)


casa

it-noun

casa f (plural case, diminutive casìna or casétta or casettìna, augmentative casóna or casóne m, pejorative casàccia, endearing-derogatory casùccia)

case (plural)
casìna (diminutive)
casétta (diminutive)
casettìna (diminutive)
casóna (augmentative)
casóne (augmentative masculine)
casàccia (pejorative)


casa

Guinea-Bissau Creole: kasa, kaza

Indo-Portuguese: casa

Kabuverdianu: kasa

Karipúna Creole French: kaz

Korlai Creole Portuguese: kadz

Kristang: kaza

Macanese: casa

Papiamentu: kas (partly)

From Old Galician-Portuguese casa, from Latin casa (“cottage”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *kat- (“to link or weave together; chain, net; hut, shed”).

inh

casa onde não há pão, todos ralham e ninguém tem razão

O peão está uma casa à direita do cavalo.

The pawn is one square to the right of the knight.


stud

At an old saloon on a street of mud / There at a table, dealing stud / Sat the dirty, mangy dog that named me "Sue"

1969, Shel Silverstein (lyrics and music), “A Boy Named Sue”, performed by Johnny Cash:

(poker) A type of poker in which the player cannot discard, and some of the cards are exposed.


rook

Inherited from Middle English rook, rooke, roke, rok, from Old French roc, ultimately from Persian رخ (rox), from Middle Persian lhw' (rox, “rook, castle (chess)”). Compare roc.

der

sometimes in Northern England; otherwise obsolete

ruck (most accents without the foot-strut split)

(chess) A piece shaped like a castle tower, that can be moved only up, down, left or right (but not diagonally) or in castling.


Straße

de-noun

Straße f (genitive Straße, plural Straßen, diminutive Sträßchen n or Sträßlein n)

Straße (genitive)
Straßen (plural)
Sträßchen (diminutive neuter)
Sträßlein (diminutive neuter)
Straße (nominative singular)
Straßen (definite nominative plural)
Straße (genitive singular)
Straßen (definite genitive plural)
Straße (dative singular)
Straßen (dative definite plural)
Straße (accusative singular)
Straßen (accusative definite plural)

→ Kashubian: sztrasa

From Middle High German strāze, from Old High German strāza, from Proto-West Germanic *strātu (“street”), from Latin (via) strata.
The sense “strait” is a calque of Middle Low German strâte, itself a phono-semantic matching of Middle English streit, from Old French estreit (“narrow”), from unrelated Latin strictus.


AAA

(video games) A high-quality video game expected to sell well, typically with a large development budget.


tank

→ Afrikaans: tenk

→ Albanian: tank

→ Assamese: টেংকি (teṅki)

→ Asturian: tanque

→ Azerbaijani: tank

→ Bashkir: танк (tank)

→ Belarusian: танк (tank)

→ Bengali: ট্যাংক (ṭêṅko)

→ Burmese: တင့်ကား (tang.ka:)

→ Buryat: танк (tank)

→ Catalan: tanc

→ Chechen: танк (tank)

→ Chinese:

Mandarin: 坦克 (tǎnkè)

→ Chuvash: танк (tank)

→ Czech: tank

→ Danish: tank

→ Dutch: tank

→ Dzongkha: ཏེངཀ (tengk)

→ Eastern Mari: танк (tank)

→ Estonian: tank

→ Fiji Hindi: tanki

→ Finnish: tankki

→ French: tank

→ Galician: tanque

→ Georgian: ტანკი (ṭanḳi)

→ German: Tank

→ Greek: τανκ (tank)

→ Greenlandic: tanki

→ Hebrew: טנק (tank)

desctree

→ Hindi: टंकी (ṭaṅkī)
→ Burmese: တိုင်ကီ (tuingki)

→ Indonesian: tank

→ Italian: tank, tanca

→ Japanese: タンク (tanku)

→ Kazakh: танк (tank)

→ Korean: 탱크 (taengkeu)

→ Kumyk: танк (tank)

→ Kyrgyz: танк (tank)

→ Latvian: tanks

→ Lezgi: танк (tank)

→ Lithuanian: tankas

→ Macedonian: тенк (tenk)

→ Malay: tank

→ Maori: taika

→ Norwegian: tank, tanks

→ Ossetian: танк (tank)

→ Persian: تانک (tânk)

desc

→ Portuguese: tanque (“armored vehicle”)

→ Quechua: tanki

→ Romanian: tanc

→ Romansch: tanc

desctree

→ Russian: танк (tank), танкъ (tank) — Pre-reform orthography (1918)
→ Armenian: տանկ (tank)
→ Kazakh: танк (tank)
→ Mongolian: танк (tank)

→ Carpathian Rusyn: танк (tank)

→ Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic script: тенк

Latin script: tenk

→ Sidamo: tanke

→ Slovak: tank

→ Slovene: tank

→ Swahili: tangi

→ Tajik: танк (tank), тонк (tonk)

→ Tamil: தாங்கி (tāṅki)

→ Tatar: танк (tank)

→ Tokelauan: tane

→ Turkish: tank

→ Turkmen: tank

→ Ukrainian: танк (tank)

→ Upper Sorbian: tank

→ Urdu: ٹینک (ṭaink)

→ Uzbek: tank

→ Vietnamese: xe tăng

→ Walloon: tank

→ Welsh: tanc

→ Yakut: тааҥка (taañka)

→ Yiddish: טאַנק (tank)

From Portuguese tanque (“tank, liquid container”), from an Indo-Aryan language such as Gujarati ટાંકી (ṭā̃kī, “cistern”) or Marathi टांकी (ṭāṅkī). Compare the Arabic verb اِسْتَنْقَعَ (istanqaʕa, “to become stagnant, to stagnate”).
In the sense of armoured vehicle, first attested in 1915, prototypes were described as tanks for carrying water to disguise their nature as well as due to physical resemblance.

der

The paladin can make for a decent tank, but I recommend that you get a class with better taunting skills.

(roleplaying games, board games, video games) A unit or character designed primarily around damage absorption and holding the attention of the enemy (as opposed to dealing damage, healing, or other tasks).

roleplaying games; board games; roleplaying games; board games

(poker, slang) A metaphorical place where a player goes to contemplate a decision; see in the tank.


tank

en-verb

tank (third-person singular simple present tanks, present participle tanking, simple past and past participle tanked)

tanks (present singular third-person)
tanking (participle present)
tanked (participle past)
tanked (past)

(video games) To attract the attacks of an enemy target in cooperative team-based combat, so that one's teammates can defeat the enemy in question more efficiently.

pansre

video games: to attract the attacks of an enemy target in cooperative team-based combat


talo

From Proto-Philippine *talu, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian *talu.


CC

en-noun

CC (countable and uncountable, plural CCs)

(video games) Initialism of crowd control.


daily

From Middle English dayly, from Old English dæġlīċ, from Proto-West Germanic *dagalīk, from Proto-Germanic *dagalīkaz (“daily”), equivalent to day + -ly. Cognate with Scots dayly, daly (“daily”), German Low German dagelk, dagelik (“daily”), Dutch dagelijks (“daily”), German täglich (“daily”), Danish daglig (“daily”), Swedish daglig (“daily”), Icelandic daglegur (“daily”).

Something that is produced, consumed, used, or done every day.

(video games) A quest in a massively multiplayer online game that can be repeated every day for cumulative rewards.

massively multiplayer online game
massively multiplayer online game


SM

(science fiction) Initialism of space marine.


SM

Pokémon Sun and Moon
w:Pokémon Sun and Moon

(fandom slang) Initialism of Pokémon Sun and Moon.


bishop

Tok Pisin: bisop

→ Hawaiian: pīhopa

→ Japanese: ビショップ

→ Kannada: ಬಿಷಪ್ (biṣap)

→ Korean: 비숍 (bisyop)

→ Maori: pīhopa

→ Thai: บิชอป (bì-chɔ́p)

From Middle English bischop, bishop, bisshop, biscop, from Old English bisċop (“bishop”), from Proto-West Germanic *biskop, from Vulgar Latin (e)biscopus, from classical Latin episcopus (“overseer, supervisor”), from Ancient Greek ἐπίσκοπος (epískopos, “overseer”), from ἐπί (epí, “over”) + σκοπός (skopós, “watcher”), used in Greek and Latin both generally and as a title of civil officers. Cognate with all European terms for the position in various Christian churches; compare bisp.

аҷҟәандар

church official, supervisor of priests and congregations

titular bishop

as over a diocese without a congregation

The Bishoppes some name Alphins, some fooles, and some name them Princes; other some call them Archers.

1562, Rowbotham in Archaeologia, XXIV. 203

A Bishop or Archer, who is commonly figured with his head cloven.

1656, Gioachino Greco, “The royall game of chesse-play, being the study of Biochimo”, in Francis Beale, transl., (Please provide the book title or journal name):

(chess) The chess piece denoted ♗ or ♝ which moves along diagonal lines and developed from the shatranj alfil ("elephant") and was originally known as the aufil or archer in English.


bicycle

→ Burmese: ဘိုင်စကယ် (bhuingca.kai)

→ Central Dusun: bosikol

desc

→ Kashubian: bajsykla (Canada, United States)

→ Malay: basikal

→ Maltese: bajsikil

→ Papiamentu: baiskel

→⇒ Serbo-Croatian: bajs

→ Sranan Tongo: baisigri

Aukan: baisigii

Saramaccan: baisígi

→ Kari'na: paisiki

→ Swahili: baiskeli

→ Tausug: basikul

→ Urdu: بائیسِکَل (bāīsikal)

Borrowed from French bicycle (modern bicyclette), from bi- (“bi-”) + cycle (“cycle”). First attested in English in 1868, and in French in 1847.
(promiscuous woman): From double meaning of ride ("to transport oneself upon" vs. "to mount someone to have sex with them"). A communal bicycle would have many riders.

a woman needs a man like a fish needs a bicycle

a woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle

(poker slang) The wheel: either the lowest straight (A-2-3-4-5) or the best low hand in Lowball or High-low poker.


(video games) Initialism of PlayStation 2.


nick

en-verb

nick (third-person singular simple present nicks, present participle nicking, simple past and past participle nicked)

nicks (present singular third-person)
nicking (participle present)
nicked (participle past)
nicked (past)

The noun is derived from Late Middle English nik (“notch, tally; nock of an arrow”). Its further etymology is unknown; a connection with nock (“notch in a bow to hold the bowstring; notch at the rear of an arrow that fits the bowstring; cleft in the buttocks”) has not been clearly established.
The verb appears to be derived from the noun, though the available evidence shows that some of the verb senses predate the noun senses. No connection with words in Germanic languages such as Danish nikke (“to nod”), Middle Dutch nicken (“to bend; to bow”) (modern Dutch knikken (“to nod”)), Middle Low German nicken (“to bend over; to sink”), Middle High German nicken (“to bend; to depress”) (modern German nicken (“to nod”)), Middle Low German knicken (“to bend; to snap”) (modern German knicken (“to bend; to break”), Old Frisian hnekka (“to nod”), and Swedish nicka (“to nod”), has been clearly established.

unknown

further etymology is unknown

cog

My old luck: I never nick'd ſeven that I did not throw ames ace three times following.

1773, [Oliver] Goldsmith, She Stoops to Conquer: Or, The Mistakes of a Night. A Comedy. […], London: […] F[rancis] Newbery, […], →OCLC, Act III, page 63:

The points to nick each main have been mentioned before, and the table on dice will show how many chances there are to throw each of these points with 2 dice, which together form the numerator, and 36 (being all the chances on 2 dice) the denominator of the fraction that expresses the probability. If 5 is the main, 5 will be the only nick, and the chances to throw 5 being 4, ⁴⁄₃₆ is the probability, which is 8 to 1 against nicking 5, and the same against nicking 9.

[1814], William Rouse, “Problem XXX. What are the Probabilities of Nicking each Main?”, in The Doctrine of Chances, or The Theory of Gaming, Made Easy to Every Person Acquainted with Common Arithmetic, […], London: Printed by Gye & Balne, […], for the author, published by Lackington, Allen & Co. […], →OCLC, page 150:

Tom Moor was fond of gaming, and often lost large sums of money; finding his business neglected in his absence, he had a small hazard table set up in one corner of his dining-room, and invited a party of his friends to play at it. [...] [O]ne of them being a constant winner, the others would say, "Damn it, how he nicks them."

1888, “The Jackdaw”, in W[illiam] B[utler] Yeats, editor, Fairy and Folk Tales of the Irish Peasantry (The Camelot Series), London: Walter Scott, […]; New York, N.Y.: Thomas Whittaker; Toronto, Ont.: W. J. Gage & Co., →OCLC, page 304:

(transitive, obsolete) To fit into or suit, as by a correspondence of nicks; to tally with.

(transitive, gaming) To throw or turn up (a number when playing dice); to hit upon.


nick

Meu nick é Ícaro. Nick igual ao meu nome de verdade. Não invento apelidos na web, acho nada a ver ficar se escondendo atrás de outros nomes que não sejam o meu mesmo.

2013, Caio Riter, “voodeicaro.blogspot.com” (chapter 3), in Luiz Antonio Aguiar, compiler, Internautas: os chips reinventando o nosso dia a dia, São Paulo: Melhoramentos, →ISBN, page 19:

My nick is Ícaro. A nick just like my real name. I don't make up nickames on the Web, I find it nonsensical to hide behind other names that aren't my own.


Scandinavian

Scandinavian Defence
Scandinavian Defence


natural

en-adj

natural (comparative more natural, superlative most natural)

more natural (comparative)
most natural (superlative)

/ˈnæt͡ʃ(ə)ɹəl/

From Middle English natural, borrowed from Old French natural, naturel, from Latin nātūrālis, from nātus, the perfect participle of nāscor (“be born”, verb). Displaced native Old English ġecynde. By surface analysis, nature + -al.

luonnollinen

that exists and evolved within the confines of an ecosystem

luonnollinen

having the character or sentiments properly belonging to one's position

(dice games) Pertaining to a dice roll before bonuses or penalties have been applied to the result.

(bridge) Bidding in an intuitive way that reflects one's actual hand.


feather

en-verb

feather (third-person singular simple present feathers, present participle feathering, simple past and past participle feathered)

feathers (present singular third-person)
feathering (participle present)
feathered (participle past)
feathered (past)

From Middle English feþer, from Old English feþer, from Proto-West Germanic *feþru, from Proto-Germanic *feþrō, from Proto-Indo-European *péth₂r̥ (“feather, wing”), from *peth₂- (“to fly”).
See also West Frisian fear, German Low German Fedder, Dutch veder, veer, German Feder, Yiddish פֿעדער (feder), Danish fjer, Swedish fjäder, Icelandic fjöður, Faroese fjøður, Norwegian Bokmål fjær, fjør, Norwegian Nynorsk fjør. Also Ancient Greek πέτομαι (pétomai), Albanian shpend (“bird”), Latin penna, Old Armenian թիռ (tʻiṙ).

inh

(snooker, billiards) To move the cue back and forth along the bridge in preparation for striking the cue ball.

(snooker, billiards) To accidentally touch the cue ball with the tip of the cue when taking aim.


call

en-verb

call (third-person singular simple present calls, present participle calling, simple past and past participle called or (archaic) call'd)

calls (present singular third-person)
calling (participle present)
called (participle past)
called (past)
call'd (archaic participle past)
call'd (archaic past)
call (infinitive)

→ Kashubian: kolowac (United States)

From Middle English callen, from Old English ċeallian (“to call, shout”) and Old Norse kalla (“to call; shout; refer to as; name”); both from Proto-Germanic *kalzōną (“to call, shout”), from Proto-Indo-European *golH-so- (“voice, cry”), from *gel(H)- (“to vocalize, call, shout”).
Cognates
* Scots call, caw, ca (“to call, cry, shout”)
* Dutch kallen (“to chat, talk”),
* German kallen (“to call”)
* Swedish kalla (“to call, refer to, beckon”)
* Norwegian kalle (“to call, name”)
* Danish kalde (“to call, name”)
* Icelandic kalla (“to call, shout, name”)
* Welsh galw (“to call, demand”)
* Polish głos (“voice”)
* Lithuanian gal̃sas (“echo”)
* Russian голос (golos, “voice”)
* Albanian gjuhë (“language, tongue”).

cog

call a spade a spade and a shovel a shovel

call someone everything but a child of God

desperate times call for desperate measures

is that what the kids are calling it these days

I bet $800 and Jane raised to $1600. My options: call (match her $1600 bet), reraise, or fold.

(heading, sports) Direct or indirect use of the voice.

(intransitive, poker) To equal the same amount that other players are currently betting.

meegaan

to match or equal the amount of poker chips in the pot as the player that bet

I’ll call your 300, and raise to 600!

(intransitive, poker, proscribed) To match the current bet amount, in preparation for a raise in the same turn. (Usually, players are forbidden to announce one's play this way.)


call

en-noun

call (countable and uncountable, plural calls)

→ Armenian: քոլ (kʻol)

→ Georgian: ქოლი (koli)

the call is coming from inside the house

(poker) The act of matching a bet made by a player who has previously bet in the same round of betting.


platinum

en-verb

platinum (third-person singular simple present platinums, present participle platinuming, simple past and past participle platinumed)

platinums (present singular third-person)
platinuming (participle present)
platinumed (participle past)
platinumed (past)

From Spanish platina (“little silver”) del Pinto ("of the Pinto") + -um. It was called "little" (or "lesser") silver because the metal was found as an impurity in gold, and del Pinto for the Pinto River in Grand Columbia where Europeans discovered it being mined by Native Americans.

I platinumed in Clash of Clans yesterday.

(computer games) To attain all of the achievements in a game, on certain PlayStation consoles.


閒

Ideogrammic compound (會意／会意): 門 (“door”) + 月 (“moon”) – moonlight peeking through a door – interstice; space (original character of 間).
Karlgren (1957) and Baxter (1992) connect this word with 間 (OC *kreːn, “interstice time”).
Alternatively, Pulleyblank (1973) suggests that it is cognate with 暇 (OC *ɡraːs, “to be at leisure”).
Schuessler (2007) considers this unrelated to 間 (OC *kreːn, *kreːns), and instead proposes that this is borrowed from Tai languages, akin to Thai คร้าน (kráan, “lazy; indolent”). 懶 (OC *raːnʔ, “lazy”) may be a colloquial reflex of the same word (ibid.).


都

→ English: Meaco (“Kyōto”)

→ Latin: Meacum (“Kyōto”)

⟨mi₁yako₁⟩ → */mʲijakʷo/ → /mijako/
From Old Japanese, a compound of 宮(みや) (miya, “imperial palace”) + 処(こ) (ko, “place”).

ja-com

(shogi, colloquial) Short for 都詰め (miyakozume): moving the 王将 (ōshō)/玉将 (gyokushō, “king”) to the center of the board with other pieces close together


echo

en-noun

echo (countable and uncountable, plural echoes or echos)

From Middle English eccho, ecco, ekko, from Medieval Latin ecco, from Latin echo, from Ancient Greek ἠχώ (ēkhṓ), from ἠχή (ēkhḗ, “sound”). Possibly from the same Proto-Indo-European root as sough.

(whist, bridge) A signal, played in the same manner as a trump signal, made by a player who holds four or more trumps (or, as played by some, exactly three trumps) and whose partner has led trumps or signalled for trumps.

(whist, bridge) A signal showing the number held of a plain suit when a high card in that suit is led by one's partner.


echo

en-verb

echo (third-person singular simple present echoes, present participle echoing, simple past and past participle echoed)

echoes (present singular third-person)
echoing (participle present)
echoed (participle past)
echoed (past)

(intransitive, whist, bridge) To give the echo signal, informing one's partner about cards one holds.


canoe

→ German: Kanu

→ Irish: canú

Adopted in 16th century from Spanish canoa, from Taíno *kanowa (“dugout canoe”) (compare Lokono kanoa (“canoe”), Wayuu anuwa, anua (“boat, canoe”)), from Proto-Arawak *kanawa.

(gambling) Any of the deflectors positioned around a roulette wheel, shaped like upside-down boats.


飜

ロン。20符4飜なので、5200です。


AI

en-noun

AI (countable and uncountable, plural AIs)

Audio (US)

(video games) A character or entity controlled by the game instead of a player.


AI

Unadapted borrowing from English AI. According to SO attested since 1979.


關

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (關):
* → Japanese: 関(かん) (kan)
* → Korean: 관(關) (gwan)
* → Vietnamese: quan (關)

→ English: Guan, Kwan

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *kroːn): semantic 門 (“door”) + phonetic 𢇅 () – to stop the door from opening with a wooden stick.
The bronze inscription was in the form of 門 (“door”) + 卝 (“door closed”). 卝 might also serve as a phonetic component.
Compare Proto-Southwestern Tai *klɔːnᴬ² (“latch of door; rafter”), whence Thai กลอน (glɔɔn) (Schuessler, 2007).

cog

关
関
𨶚
𢇅
𬮦
闗
閞


PC

en-noun

PC (countable and uncountable, plural PCs)

player character
player character#English

(gaming) Initialism of player character.

(bingo) forty-nine (an allusion to a cartoon character, Police Constable 49)

The honest casino operator obtains it either by levying a direct charge or by extracting a favorable P.C. (percentage) […]

1978, John Scarne, Scarne's guide to casino gambling, page 321:

[…] but in the long run, the casino's PC (percentage) for casino games will erode your bankroll.

1997, Benny J. Berry, Gambling's Greatest Secrets Revealed:


PG

Prince George's County
Prince George's County#English


銀

Hokkien language
Middle Chinese language

From Middle Chinese 銀 (MC ngin). Compare modern Hokkien reading gîn.

(shogi) Short for 銀将 (ginshō): a silver general


駒

Compound of 子(こ) (ko, “child”) + 馬(ま) (ma, “horse”).
See also 子馬(こうま) (kouma).

2013, Habu Yoshiharu: Shōgi-shi o nuri-kaeta otoko [Yoshiharu Habu: The man who changed the face of shogi history], page 88:

A pawn can take a piece that is one step away diagonally.

ポーンは一歩斜めにある駒を取ることができます。

Pōn wa ippo naname ni aru koma o toru koto ga dekimasu.


鬆

Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *sqʰloːŋs, *sqʰluːŋ, *skʰloŋ, *sqʰloŋ): semantic 髟 (“hair”) + phonetic 松 (OC *sɢloŋ).

Han compound

GT - General Taiwanese (no specific region identified)


金

/kimʉ/ → /kiɴ/
From Middle Chinese 金 (kim). Compare modern Mandarin 金 (jīn).

(shogi) Short for 金将 (kinshō): a gold general


artificial intelligence

en-noun

artificial intelligence (countable and uncountable, plural artificial intelligences)

Coined by American computer scientist and cognitive scientist John McCarthy in 1955, and popularized at the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence, 1956.

kunsmatige intelligensie

intelligence exhibited by an artificial entity

ሠው ሰራሽ ዕውቀት

śäw säraš ʿəwḳät

artificially intelligent → artificially intelligently

The original Sniper: Ghost Warrior was a surprise hit when it was released in 2010. A surprise because it seemed an unequivocally awful game, with half broken graphics and artificial intelligence, a tediously linear story campaign, and an undernourished multiplayer mode.

2013 March 19, “Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 review – scope for improvement”, in The Metro (UK):

Intelligence exhibited by an artificial (non-natural, man-made) entity.

(video games) A character or entity controlled by the game instead of a player; AI.


dam

From Middle English dam, from Old English *damm, from Proto-West Germanic *damm, from Proto-Germanic *dammaz.

(dentistry) A device to prevent a tooth from getting wet during dental work, consisting of a rubber sheet held with a band.


dam

desc

→ Indonesian: dam (“draught/checker(s)”)

Borrowed from Middle French dame, from Spanish dama.

(checkers) king (double draught/checker)


dam

id-noun

dam (first-person possessive damku, second-person possessive dammu, third-person possessive damnya)

damku (first-person possessive)
dammu (possessive second-person)
damnya (possessive third-person)

From Dutch dam (“king (draught/checkers)”), from Middle French dame, from Old French dame, from Latin domina.

(games) draught (American), checkers (British).


dam

dam (indefinite nominative singular)
dams (genitive indefinite singular)
damen (definite nominative singular)
damens (definite genitive singular)
damer (indefinite nominative plural)
damers (genitive indefinite plural)
damerna (definite nominative plural)
damernas (definite genitive plural)

ruter dam


emu

Saw this article for playing downloadable games on GBA. It's an official Nintendo product in Japan, and thought it might be useful for Nintendo to release actual emus and some of their older game properties (beyond the $20 classic series).

2005 February 24, Dane L. Galden, “Could this be used for classic emus on GBA?”, in rec.games.video.classic (Usenet), message-ID <9XkTd.5830$Ba3.2608@newsread2.news.atl.earthlink.net>:

(computing, video games, informal) Clipping of emulator.


FX

(slang, video games, film, television) Alternative form of F/X (“special effects”)


MM

Majora's Mask
w:The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask

(video games) Initialism of Majora's Mask.


strafe

en-verb

strafe (third-person singular simple present strafes, present participle strafing, simple past and past participle strafed)

strafes (present singular third-person)
strafing (participle present)
strafed (participle past)
strafed (past)

From German strafe (“punish”) (a conjugated form of strafen), from phrases like Gott strafe England (“God punish England”) which the British saw during the First World War.

Strafe — Press the Alt key and the left or right Arrow key to slide side to side instead of turning left or right.

1992, id Software, Wolfenstein 3D (game manual), page 4

If the NPC is close to the player, he may also try using the tried-and-true Quake circle-strafing technique.

2001, Jana Hallford, Swords and circuitry: a designer's guide to computer role playing games:

A strafe is a side-to-side camera movement. If you're a fan of first-person shooter games, you know how fundamental strafing can be to a game.

2007, Stephen Cawood, Pat McGee, Microsoft XNA Game Studio Creator's Guide:

first-person shooter
first-person shooter

(intransitive, video games) To sidestep; to move sideways without turning (a core mechanic of most first-person shooters).


strafe

We also have added a new game control called the "defensive strafe," in which the user can press a button and stay facing forward.

2004, Marc Saltzman, Game Creation and Careers: Insider Secrets from Industry Experts:

(video games) A sideways movement without turning.


pik

to pick an it; to take turns picking a team or members of a team using rock paper scissors


pik

Borrowed from French pique. Doublet of pika.

(card games) spades (card game in which the spade suit cards are trumps)

(card games) spade (one of the four suits of playing cards, marked with the symbol ♠)


pik

(card games, postpositive, relational) spades (card game in which the spade suit cards are trumps)


pik

pȉk (canonical masculine)
пи̏к (Cyrillic)


pik

piks (nominative plural)
pik (nominative singular)
piks (nominative plural)
pika (genitive singular)
pikas (genitive plural)
pike (dative singular)
pikes (dative plural)
piki (accusative singular)
pikis (accusative plural)
o pik! (singular vocative)
o piks! (plural vocative)
piku (predicative singular)
pikus (plural predicative)


dice

dice (third-person singular simple present dices, present participle dicing, simple past and past participle diced)

dices (present singular third-person)
dicing (participle present)
diced (participle past)
diced (past)

From Middle English dys, plural of dy. See the etymology of die (etymology 2) for further information. The voiceless /s/ was most likely retained because the word felt like a collective term rather than a plural form (compare pence), and the spelling dice is a result of the pronunciation.

(transitive) To ornament with squares, diamonds, or cubes.


飛

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (飛):
* → Japanese: 飛(ひ) (hi)
* → Korean: 비(飛) (bi)
* → Vietnamese: phi (飛)

Characters in the same phonetic series (飛) (Zhengzhang, 2003)
Pictogram (象形): a bird flying upwards.
In its modern form, resembles a tasseled 升 (shēng).
* Proto-Sino-Tibetan *bjar ~ *p(i/u)r (“to fly”) → Tibetan འཕུར ('phur), Burmese ပျံ (pyam, “to fly”).
* Proto-Mon-Khmer *par (“to fly”) → Old Mon ပဝ် (pɔ); Proto-Vietic *pər (“to fly”), whereas Vietnamese bay.
Cognate with Old Chinese 翂 (*pɯn, “appearance of birds flying slowly”) and Old Chinese 奮 (*pɯns, “spread wings and fly”).
; “fare”
; “femto-”

cog

飞
𠃧
𮨶
𩙱
𦐭
𦒮
飝

(mahjong) Classifier for number of possible winning tiles.


飛

(shogi) Abbreviation of 飛車 (hisha): a flying chariot piece, with movement corresponding to the rook in Western chess


micro

en-noun

micro (countable and uncountable, plural micros)

From Ancient Greek μικρός (mikrós, “small”), or shortened form for modern words formed from its derivative micro-.

(gaming, slang, uncountable) micromanagement


micro

en-verb

micro (third-person singular simple present micros or microes, present participle microing, simple past and past participle microed)

micros (present singular third-person)
microes (present singular third-person)
microing (participle present)
microed (participle past)
microed (past)


multi

(bridge) A contract bridge convention whereby the opening bid of 2♦ shows several possible types of hands.


mini

You can add to the realism by painting your minis accurately.

(roleplaying games, board games) Abbreviation of miniature (“small figurine of a character”).


maximum

(snooker) A 147 break; the highest possible break.

(colloquial, darts) A score of 180 with three darts.


mus

From earlier mux, probably from French mouche (“fly”). However, compare musu (“kiss”).

(card games) A traditional Basque card game.


mus

(card games) a card game that is very popular in Spain


Derives from overset Io, an abbreviation of either interiectiō (“interjection”) or the interjection iō (“hey!”), placed at the end of an exclamation to mark it as such. It expresses admiratio (“awe, wonderment”) in the clause.

punctuation mark denoting excitement, surprise, or shock

Character #1: "The zombie is right behind you!"

! [indicates that another trainer noticed the player character, prompting a battle between them]

1996, Game Freak, Pokémon Red and Blue, Nintendo:

! [indicates a random encounter with a monster]

2015 September 15, Toby Fox, Undertale, Linux, Microsoft Windows, OS X:

Denoting excitement, surprise, shock or sudden realizations.

(comics, video games) Used by itself to convey that a character is surprised at something.

Phoenix: I would like to go over this one more time. You met Adrian Andrews at a bar and took the request at that time? / de Killer: Yes, that is correct. / Phoenix: And that's the moment you thought 'he' was trustworthy... / de Killer: How many times must I repeat myself? Yes, that is correct. / Phoenix: I'm sorry, but that is an impossible tale. / de Killer: Wh-What!? / Phoenix: Shelly de Killer. You have never met the real Adrian Andrews! / de Killer: ...! Wh-Why would you say that...? / Phoenix: Because you made one very big slip-up... ...about her. / de Killer: So what is the issue... ...! / de Killer: Wh-What did you say just now...? About 'her'...? / Phoenix: If you had ever met Adrian Andrews in person... One look would have told you that she is a woman!

2002, Capcom, Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Justice for All, Capcom:

(comics, video games) Used to convey that a character has made a sudden realization.


(Fb4! 10.c3 suivi de De7 eut été plus précis)

1983, Claude Santoy, Échecs et maths (in French), Marabout,, →ISBN, page 134:

(Bb4! 10.c3 followed by Qe7 would have been more efficient)


spade

Probably from Italian spade, plural of spada (“the ace of spades”, literally “sword, spade”), from earlier *spata, from Latin spatha, from Ancient Greek σπᾰ́θη (spáthē). Cognate with Etymology 1. So called for the shape, though what the shape was exactly meant to represent has been debated.

I've got only one spade in my hand.

(card games) A playing card marked with the symbol ♠.


hook

sometimes in Northern England and Ireland, otherwise obsolete

From Middle English hoke, from Old English hōc, from Proto-West Germanic *hōk, from Proto-Germanic *hōkaz, variant of *hakô (“hook”), probably ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kog-, *keg-, *keng- (“peg, hook, claw”).
Cognates
Compare West Frisian heak, Dutch haak (“hook”)) (compare West Frisian/Dutch hoek (“hook, angle, corner”), Low German Hook, Huuk); also related to hake.

(card games, slang) A jack (the playing card).

Setup plays can also be made when you do not have the needed letter but believe your opponent doesn't know the hook owing to its obscurity.

2003, Andrew Fisher, David Webb, The Art of Scrabble, →ISBN, page 58:

(Scrabble) An instance of playing a word perpendicular to a word already on the board, adding a letter to the start or the end of the word to form a new word.

However, for pins on the bowler's right, such as the 3, 6, 9, or 10, move more toward the center of the foul line if you bowl a straight ball or slightly to the left of the center of the foul line if you bowl a hook.

1969, Harold Keith, Sports and Games, page 102:

(bowling) A ball that is rolled in a curved line.

Senses relating to sports.
A ball that is rolled in a curved line.

kierrepallo

bowling: ball that is rolled in a curved line


hook

hook (third-person singular simple present hooks, present participle hooking, simple past and past participle hooked)

hooks (present singular third-person)
hooking (participle present)
hooked (participle past)
hooked (past)

The Reds carved the first opening of the second period as Glen Johnson's pull-back found David Ngog but the Frenchman hooked wide from six yards.

2010 December 29, Sam Sheringham, “Liverpool 0 - 1 Wolverhampton”, in BBC:

(soccer, bowling) To swerve a ball; kick or throw a ball so it swerves or bends.

(Scrabble) To play a word perpendicular to another word by adding a single letter to the existing word.


own

own (third-person singular simple present owns, present participle owning, simple past and past participle owned)

owns (present singular third-person)
owning (participle present)
owned (participle past)
owned (past)

A back-formation from owner, owning and own (adjective). Compare Old English āgnian, Dutch eigenen, German eignen, Swedish ägna.

(online gaming, slang) To defeat, dominate, or be above, also spelled pwn.


(gaming, often derogatory) Abbreviation of one-shot or one-shotted.


splinter

From Middle English splinter, from Middle Dutch splinter, equivalent to splint + -er.

(bridge) A double-jump bid which indicates shortage in the bid suit.


screw

From Middle English screw, scrue (“screw”); apparently, despite the difference in meaning, from Old French escroue (“nut, cylindrical socket, screwhole”), from Latin scrōfa (“female pig”) through comparison with the corkscrew shape of a pig's penis. There is also the Old French escruve (“screw”), from Old Dutch *scrūva ("screw"; whence Middle Dutch schruyve (“screw”)), which probably influenced or conflated with the aforementioned, resulting in the Middle English word.
more on the etymology of screw
Old French escroue (whence Medieval Latin scrofa (“nut, screwhole”)), is believed to be an adaptation of Latin scrōfa (“sow, female pig”); but this development is not found in other Romance languages. (For change in meaning, compare also Spanish puerca, Portuguese porca, both ‘sow; screw nut’, and is based on the fact that a boar's penis has a screw-like tip, making the sow's vulva equivalent to a screw nut by analogy).
Old Dutch *scrūva possibly derives from Proto-Germanic *skrūbō (“screw”), from *skru- (“to cut”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)keru-, *(s)ker- (“to cut”), and is related to German Schraube (“screw”), Low German schruve, schruwe (“screw”), Dutch schroef (“screw”), West Frisian skroef (“screw”), Danish skrue (“screw”), Swedish skruv (“screw, peg”), Icelandic skrúfa (“screw”).
Compare also Occitan escrofa (“screw nut”), Calabrese scrufina (“screw nut”), which may be borrowings of the Old French word, or parallel developments.

gloss

"screw"; whence Middle Dutch <i class="Latn mention" lang="dum">schruyve</i> (“screw”)

cog

the first turn of the screw pays all debts


screw

en-verb

screw (third-person singular simple present screws, present participle screwing, simple past and past participle screwed)

screws (present singular third-person)
screwing (participle present)
screwed (participle past)
screwed (past)

have one's head screwed on the right way

would lose one's head if it wasn't screwed on

(billiards, snooker, pool) To screw back.


railroad

railroad (third-person singular simple present railroads, present participle railroading, simple past and past participle railroaded)

railroads (present singular third-person)
railroading (participle present)
railroaded (participle past)
railroaded (past)

(roleplaying games) To force players to follow the dungeon master's planned plot rather than improvise an alternative story.


power-up

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Calque of Japanese パワーアップ (pawā-appu), equivalent to English power + up

(video games) An item that alters the game in a positive way once that item is used.


cash

en-noun

cash (usually uncountable, plural cashes)

→ Georgian: ქეში (keši)

→ Japanese: キャッシュ (kyasshu)

→ Korean: 캐시 (kaesi)

→ Punjabi: ਕੈਸ਼ (kaiś)

→ Russian: кэш (kɛš)

→ Serbo-Croatian:

Cyrillic script: ке̏ш

Latin script: kȅš

→ Swedish: cash

→ Wu: 開許／开许 (¹khe-shiu)

From late Middle French caisse (“money-box”), itself borrowed from Occitan caissa, from Latin capsa (“box”), ultimately from capiō (“take, seize”), from Proto-Indo-European *keh₂p- (“grasp”). Doublet of case, chase, and chasse. Compare Spanish caja (“box”).

In the WSOP, I have played around 150 tournaments with one final table, 11 cashes, and a -70 percent ROI.

2012, Jonathan Little, Secrets of Professional Tournament Poker, Volume 2:

(countable, gambling) An instance of winning a cash prize.


cash

en-verb

cash (third-person singular simple present cashes, present participle cashing, simple past and past participle cashed)

cashes (present singular third-person)
cashing (participle present)
cashed (participle past)
cashed (past)

(poker slang) To obtain a payout from a tournament.


apron

Rebracketing of napron (a napron → an apron), from Middle English naperoun, napron, apron, from Old French napperon, diminutive of nappe (“tablecloth”), from Latin mappa (“napkin”). For other similar cases of rebracketing, see adder, daffodil, newt, nickname, orange, trickle, umpire.

A hard surface bordering a structure or area.

(aviation) The paved area of an airport, especially the area where aircraft park away from a terminal.

The paved area below the yellow line on a racetrack.

(pinball) A large decal toward the bottom of a pinball table.

The cap of a cannon; a piece of lead laid over the vent to keep the priming dry.


sweat

en-noun

sweat (usually uncountable, plural sweats)

Sranan Tongo: sweti

Torres Strait Creole: swet

From Middle English swete, swet, swate, swote, from Old English swāt, from Proto-Germanic *swait-, *swaitą, from Proto-Indo-European *swoyd- (“to sweat”), o-grade of *sweyd- (“to sweat”). Cognate with West Frisian swit, Dutch zweet, German Schweiß, Danish sved, Swedish svett, Yiddish שוויצן (shvitsn) (English shvitz), Latin sudor, French sueur, Italian sudore, Spanish sudor, Persian خوی (xway, “sweat”), Sanskrit स्वेद (svéda), Lithuanian sviedri, Tocharian B syā-, Albanian djersë, and Welsh chwys.

inh

Casuals believe that sweats are ruining Fortnite. Sweats think that casuals just need to get better at the game. It's a never-ending debate that will never end, despite what anyone tries to say, but it's worth taking a look at regardless.

2021 October 13, Zachary Roberts, “How exactly are 'sweats' ruining Fortnite? Addressing the never ending try-hards vs casual debate”, in Sportskeeda:

(video games, slang) An extremely or excessively competitive player.


sweat

en-verb

sweat (third-person singular simple present sweats, present participle sweating, simple past sweated or sweat, past participle sweated or (archaic) sweaten)

sweats (present singular third-person)
sweating (participle present)
sweated (past)
sweat (past)
sweated (participle past)
sweaten (archaic participle past)

From Middle English sweten, from Old English swǣtan, from Proto-Germanic *swaitijaną (“to sweat”). Compare Dutch zweten, German schwitzen, Danish svede. Doublet of shvitz.

There's no way we can win. These guys are sweating so hard.

With skill-based matchmaking, he wrote, "you have to sweat 100 percent of the time." They contend their audiences want to see them pull off amazing victories, not struggle endlessly against other top players.

2022 May 27, Ethan Davison, “Video game developers want fair online games. Some players really don’t.”, in The Washington Post:

(video games) To be extremely dedicated to winning a game; to play competitively.


Nassau

Borrowed from German Nassau, from German nass (“wet”). The Bahamian city is named after the German one.

(golf, gambling) A wager consisting essentially of three separate bets, for the best score on each of the front nine (holes 1–9), back nine (holes 10–18), and total 18 holes.


mast

From French masse, with -t probably after Etymology 1, above.

Godfrey thus conquered, pretended to lose his temper, curs'd his own ill luck, swore that the table had a cast, and that the balls did not run true, changed his mast, and with great warmth challenged his enemy to double his sum.

1751, [Tobias] Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle […], volume (please specify |volume=I to IV), London: Harrison and Co., […], →OCLC:

(obsolete, billiards) A type of heavy cue, with the broad end of which one strikes the ball.


mast

masti (genitive)
masti (partitive)
mast (nominative singular)
mastid (nominative plural)
mast (accusative nominative singular)
mastid (accusative nominative plural)
masti (accusative genitive singular)
mastid (accusative genitive plural)
masti (genitive singular)
mastide (genitive plural)
masti (partitive singular)
maste (partitive plural)
mastisid (partitive plural)
masti (illative singular)
mastisse (illative singular)
mastidesse (illative plural)
mastesse (illative plural)
mastis (inessive singular)
mastides (inessive plural)
mastes (inessive plural)
mastist (elative singular)
mastidest (elative plural)
mastest (elative plural)
mastile (allative singular)
mastidele (allative plural)
mastele (allative plural)
mastil (adessive singular)
mastidel (adessive plural)
mastel (adessive plural)
mastilt (ablative singular)
mastidelt (ablative plural)
mastelt (ablative plural)
mastiks (singular translative)
mastideks (plural translative)
masteks (plural translative)
mastini (singular terminative)
mastideni (plural terminative)
mastina (essive singular)
mastidena (essive plural)
mastita (abessive singular)
mastideta (abessive plural)
mastiga (comitative singular)
mastidega (comitative plural)

→ Ingrian: mašti

From either Middle Low German mast or German Mast.


shanghai

1871, from the important Chinese port Shanghai, as a verb with reference to the former practice by some shippers on the West Coast of the United States of press-ganging crews for fishing or shipping in the Pacific Ocean.

‘Shanghai’ may be played by teams of 8, in pairs, individually, or, in fact, any number.

The hot twenty—including local favourites George Simmons, Tony Brown, Mick Norris and Lew Walker—have to sweat through nineteen 501s, one 1,001, one 2,001, one round-the-board-on-doubles, one shanghai and one halve-it.

(darts, often capitalized) A kind of dart game in which players are gradually eliminated ("shanghaied"), usually either by failing to reach a certain score in 3 quick throws or during a competition to hit a certain prechosen number and then be the first to hit the prechosen numbers of the other players.


console converter

en-noun

console converter (plural console converters)

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(video games) A peripheral used to bypass regional lockout on a video game console, allowing imported video games to be played on domestic video game consoles, but without circumventing copy protection.


regional lockout

regional lockout (countable and uncountable, plural regional lockouts)

Coined by the video game community and opponents of the lockout practice. The practice originated with and was devised by the video game industry and was later adopted by the film industry with the advent of DVDs.

(video games, DVD) The programming practice, code, or chip used to prevent the playing of imported media on a domestically marketed device.

地方停工

prevents the playing of imported media on a domestically marketed device


fork

Sranan Tongo: forku

→ Dutch: fork

→ Japanese: フォーク (fōku)

→ Kannada: ಫೋರ್ಕ್ (phōrk)

→ Korean: 포크 (pokeu)

→ Maori: paoka

→ Tamil: போர்க் (pōrk)

→ Telugu: ఫోర్క్ (phōrk)

From Middle English forke (“digging fork”), from Old English force, forca (“forked instrument used to torture”), from Proto-West Germanic *furkō (“fork”), from Latin furca (“pitchfork, forked stake; gallows, beam, stake, support post, yoke”), of uncertain origin. The Middle English word was later reinforced by Anglo-Norman, Old Northern French forque (= Old French forche whence French fourche), also from the Latin. Cognate also with North Frisian forck (“fork”), Dutch vork (“fork”), Danish fork (“fork”), German Forke (“pitchfork”). Displaced native gafol, ġeafel, ġeafle (“fork”), from Old English.
In its primary sense of “fork”, Latin furca appears to be derived from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰerk(ʷ)-, *ǵʰerg(ʷ)- (“fork”), although the development of the -c- is difficult to explain. In other senses this derivation is unlikely. For these, perhaps it is connected to Proto-Germanic *furkaz, *firkalaz (“stake, stick, pole, post”), from Proto-Indo-European *perg- (“pole, post”). If so, this would relate the word to Old English forclas pl (“bolt”), Old Saxon ferkal (“lock, bolt, bar”), Old Norse forkr (“pole, staff, stick”), Norwegian fork (“stick, bat”), Swedish fork (“pole”).

tienhaara

figurative: point in time of making a decision

afsplitsing

computer science: splitting of a process

odnož

computer science: copying and separately developing a project

bifurcació

computer science: a separately developed project based upon a copy of an existing project

a three-prong spear somewhat resembling a pitchfork

(chess) The simultaneous attack of two adversary pieces with one single attacking piece (especially a knight).


Yoshi

From Japanese ヨッシー (Yosshī, “Yoshi, the Super Mario Bros. dinosaur character”), 義 (Yoshi, common Japanese male given name), and many other spellings. See よし.


truth

en-noun

truth (usually uncountable, plural truths)

From Middle English trouthe, truthe, trewthe, treowthe, from Old English trēowþ, trīewþ (“truth, veracity, faith, fidelity, loyalty, honour, pledge, covenant”), from Proto-Germanic *triwwiþō (“promise, covenant, contract”), from Proto-Indo-European *drū- (“tree”), from Proto-Indo-European *deru- (“firm, solid”), equivalent to true + -th. Cognate with Norwegian trygd (“trustworthiness, security, insurance”), Icelandic tryggð (“loyalty, fidelity”).

cog

National Day for Truth and Reconciliation

When asked truth or dare, he picked truth.

(games) In the game truth or dare, the choice to truthfully answer a question put forth.


legen

de-verb

legen (weak, third-person singular present legt, past tense legte, past participle gelegt, auxiliary haben)

legt (present singular third-person)
legte (past)
gelegt (participle past)
haben (auxiliary)
haben (auxiliary)
legen (infinitive)
legend (participle present)
gelegt (participle past)
lege (first-person indicative present singular)
legen (first-person indicative plural present)
lege (first-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
legen (first-person plural subjunctive subjunctive-i)
legst (indicative present second-person singular)
legt (indicative plural present second-person)
legest (second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
leget (plural second-person subjunctive subjunctive-i)
legt (indicative present singular third-person)
legen (indicative plural present third-person)
lege (singular subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
legen (plural subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
legte (first-person indicative preterite singular)
legten (first-person indicative plural preterite)
legte (first-person formal rare singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
legten (first-person formal plural rare subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
legtest (indicative preterite second-person singular)
legtet (indicative plural preterite second-person)
legtest (formal rare second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
legtet (formal plural rare second-person subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
legte (indicative preterite singular third-person)
legten (indicative plural preterite third-person)
legte (formal rare singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)
legten (formal plural rare subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)
leg (imperative second-person singular)
lege (imperative second-person singular)
legt (imperative plural second-person)
haben (auxiliary)
habe gelegt (first-person indicative multiword-construction perfect singular)
haben gelegt (first-person indicative multiword-construction perfect plural)
habe gelegt (first-person multiword-construction perfect singular subjunctive)
haben gelegt (first-person multiword-construction perfect plural subjunctive)
hast gelegt (indicative multiword-construction perfect second-person singular)
habt gelegt (indicative multiword-construction perfect plural second-person)
habest gelegt (multiword-construction perfect second-person singular subjunctive)
habet gelegt (multiword-construction perfect plural second-person subjunctive)
hat gelegt (indicative multiword-construction perfect singular third-person)
haben gelegt (indicative multiword-construction perfect plural third-person)
habe gelegt (multiword-construction perfect singular subjunctive third-person)
haben gelegt (multiword-construction perfect plural subjunctive third-person)
hatte gelegt (first-person indicative multiword-construction pluperfect singular)
hatten gelegt (first-person indicative multiword-construction pluperfect plural)
hätte gelegt (first-person multiword-construction pluperfect singular subjunctive)
hätten gelegt (first-person multiword-construction pluperfect plural subjunctive)
hattest gelegt (indicative multiword-construction pluperfect second-person singular)
hattet gelegt (indicative multiword-construction pluperfect plural second-person)
hättest gelegt (multiword-construction pluperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
hättet gelegt (multiword-construction pluperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
hatte gelegt (indicative multiword-construction pluperfect singular third-person)
hatten gelegt (indicative multiword-construction pluperfect plural third-person)
hätte gelegt (multiword-construction pluperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
hätten gelegt (multiword-construction pluperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
legen werden (future future-i infinitive multiword-construction)
werde legen (first-person future future-i multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werden legen (first-person future future-i multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werdest legen (future future-i multiword-construction second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werdet legen (future future-i multiword-construction plural second-person subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werde legen (future future-i multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
werden legen (future future-i multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
werde legen (first-person future future-i indicative multiword-construction singular)
werden legen (first-person future future-i indicative multiword-construction plural)
würde legen (first-person future future-i multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
würden legen (first-person future future-i multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
wirst legen (future future-i indicative multiword-construction second-person singular)
werdet legen (future future-i indicative multiword-construction plural second-person)
würdest legen (future future-i multiword-construction second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
würdet legen (future future-i multiword-construction plural second-person subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
wird legen (future future-i indicative multiword-construction singular third-person)
werden legen (future future-i indicative multiword-construction plural third-person)
würde legen (future future-i multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)
würden legen (future future-i multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)
gelegt haben werden (future future-ii infinitive multiword-construction)
werde gelegt haben (first-person future future-ii multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werden gelegt haben (first-person future future-ii multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werdest gelegt haben (future future-ii multiword-construction second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werdet gelegt haben (future future-ii multiword-construction plural second-person subjunctive subjunctive-i)
werde gelegt haben (future future-ii multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
werden gelegt haben (future future-ii multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-i third-person)
werde gelegt haben (first-person future future-ii indicative multiword-construction singular)
werden gelegt haben (first-person future future-ii indicative multiword-construction plural)
würde gelegt haben (first-person future future-ii multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
würden gelegt haben (first-person future future-ii multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
wirst gelegt haben (future future-ii indicative multiword-construction second-person singular)
werdet gelegt haben (future future-ii indicative multiword-construction plural second-person)
würdest gelegt haben (future future-ii multiword-construction second-person singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
würdet gelegt haben (future future-ii multiword-construction plural second-person subjunctive subjunctive-ii)
wird gelegt haben (future future-ii indicative multiword-construction singular third-person)
werden gelegt haben (future future-ii indicative multiword-construction plural third-person)
würde gelegt haben (future future-ii multiword-construction singular subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)
würden gelegt haben (future future-ii multiword-construction plural subjunctive subjunctive-ii third-person)

From Middle High German legen, from Old High German leggen, from Proto-West Germanic *laggjan, from Proto-Germanic *lagjaną.
Compare English lay, Danish lægge.

(colloquial, especially video games) to slay, to defeat


video game console

en-noun

video game console (plural video game consoles)

(video games) A dedicated electronic device that is designed to play video games, especially in accompaniment with a television.


Wellington

From Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, British soldier and statesman.
From Old English Weolingtun, meaning "wealthy estate".

(card games) In the game of nap, a bid that results in the bidder winning quadruple, or losing double, the amount staked.


pyramid

pyramid (countable and uncountable, plural pyramids)

From French pyramide, from Old French piramide, from Latin pȳramis, pȳramidis, from Ancient Greek πῡραμίς (pūramís), possibly from πῡρός (pūrós, “wheat”) + ἀμάω (amáō, “reap”) or from Egyptian pr-m-ws (“height of a pyramid”), from pr (“(one that) comes forth”) + m (“from”) + ws (“height”). Schenkel and K. Lang proposed hypothetical Coptic *ⲡⲓⲣⲁⲙ (*piram) or *ⲫⲣⲁⲙ (*phram) derived from Egyptian mr via metathesis as a source of πῡραμίς (pūramís) while Schenkel also suggested it being the source of Arabic هرم although the latter is considered far-fetched by Takacs.

der

(card games, uncountable) Alternative letter-case form of Pyramid. (a solitaire card game)

Build your pyramid with all cards face down, except the cards in the bottom row.

(card games) The triangular layout of cards in the game of Pyramid.


campaign

→ Hebrew: קמפיין (kampéin)

From French campagne, from Italian campagna (“field, military operation”), from Late Latin campānia (“open country, battlefield”), from Latin campus (“field”). Doublet of campania, campagna, and champagne.

doublet

(roleplaying games) A series of play sessions using the same player characters, forming a continuous narrative.


papier

pl-noun

papier m inan (diminutive papierek, augmentative papierzysko, related adjective papierowy)

papierek (diminutive)
papierzysko (augmentative)
papierowy (adjective)
papier (nominative singular)
papiery (nominative plural)
papieru (genitive singular)
papierów (genitive plural)
papierowi (dative singular)
papierom (dative plural)
papier (accusative singular)
papiery (accusative plural)
papierem (instrumental singular)
papierami (instrumental plural)
papierze (locative singular)
papierach (locative plural)
papierze (singular vocative)
papiery (plural vocative)

→? Belarusian: папе́ра (papjéra)

→ Kashubian: papiór

→ Lithuanian: popierius

→ Latvian: papīrs

Borrowed from Middle High German papier. First attested in 1528. Compare Silesian papiōr.

ref

Maria Renata Mayenowa, Stanisław Rospond, Witold Taszycki, Stefan Hrabec, Władysław Kuraszkiewicz (2010-2023) “papier”, in Słownik Polszczyzny XVI Wieku [A Dictionary of 16th Century Polish]

paper (open hand in the game of rock paper scissors)


chop

en-noun

chop (countable and uncountable, plural chops)

→ Japanese: チョップ

From Middle English choppen, chappen (“to chop”), of uncertain origin, possibly onomatopoeic, or a variant of chap (“to become cracked”).
Cognate with Scots chap (“to chop”). Compare also Saterland Frisian kappe, kapje (“to hack; chop; lop off”), Dutch kappen (“to chop, cut, hew”), German Low German kappen (“to cut off; clip”), German kappen (“to cut; clip”), German dialectal chapfen, kchapfen (“to chop into small pieces”), Albanian copë (“piece, chunk”), Old English *ċippian (in forċippian (“to cut off”)). Perhaps related to chip.

cog

With both players having an ace-high straight, the pot was a chop.

(poker) A hand where two or more players have an equal-valued hand, resulting in the chips being shared equally between them.


chop

en-verb

chop (third-person singular simple present chops, present participle chopping, simple past and past participle chopped)

chops (present singular third-person)
chopping (participle present)
chopped (participle past)
chopped (past)

(poker) To divide the pot (or tournament prize) between two or more players.


bitch

en-noun

bitch (countable and uncountable, plural bitches)

→ Dutch: bitch

→? German: Betze, Bätze, Petze

→ French: bitch

From Middle English biche, bicche, from Old English biċċe, from Proto-West Germanic *bikkjā, from Proto-Germanic *bikjǭ (compare Norwegian bikkje (“dog”), Old Danish bikke), from *bikjaną (“to thrust, attack”) (compare Old Norse bikkja (“plunge into water”), Dutch bikken (“to hack”)). More at bicker.

Coordinate term: butcher

(colloquial, vulgar, card games) A queen playing card, particularly the queen of spades in the card game of hearts.

(chess, slang, vulgar, offensive) A queen.


es

head

es n (singular definite esset, plural indefinite esser)

esset (definite singular)
esser (indefinite plural)
es (indefinite nominative singular)
esset (definite nominative singular)
esser (indefinite nominative plural)
esserne (definite nominative plural)
ess (genitive indefinite singular)
essets (definite genitive singular)
essers (genitive indefinite plural)
essernes (definite genitive plural)

Jeg har alle esserne.


pat

pat (nominative singular)
paty (nominative plural)
patu (genitive singular)
patů (genitive plural)
patu (dative singular)
patům (dative plural)
pat (accusative singular)
paty (accusative plural)
pate (singular vocative)
paty (plural vocative)
patu (locative singular)
patech (locative plural)
patem (instrumental singular)
paty (instrumental plural)

Via German Patt and French pat, from Italian patta.


pat

Borrowed from French pat, from Italian patta.


pat

→ German: Patt

→ Greek: πατ (pat)

→ Polish: pat

→ Serbo-Croatian: pat

→ Slovak: pat

Borrowed from Italian patta (“tie, draw”), influenced by mat (“mate”).


pat

pacik (diminutive)
pat (nominative singular)
paty (nominative plural)
pata (genitive singular)
patów (genitive plural)
patowi (dative singular)
patom (dative plural)
pata (accusative singular)
paty (accusative plural)
patem (instrumental singular)
patami (instrumental plural)
pacie (locative singular)
patach (locative plural)
pacie (singular vocative)
paty (plural vocative)

Borrowed from French pat, from Italian patta, probably from Latin pacta, plural of pactum.


pat

пат (Cyrillic)
pat (nominative singular)
patovi (nominative plural)
pata (genitive singular)
patova (genitive plural)
patu (dative singular)
patovima (dative plural)
pat (accusative singular)
patovi (accusative plural)
pat (singular vocative)
patovi (plural vocative)
patu (locative singular)
patovima (locative plural)
patom (instrumental singular)
patovima (instrumental plural)


pat

sk-noun

pat m inan (genitive singular patu, nominative plural paty, genitive plural patov, declension pattern of dub)

patu (genitive singular)
paty (nominative plural)
patov (genitive plural)
dub (declension-pattern-of)
nominative
pat (singular)
paty (plural)
genitive
patu (singular)
patov (plural)
dative
patom (plural)
accusative
locative
pate (singular)
patoch (plural)
instrumental
patom (singular)
patmi (plural)


switch

→ Gulf Arabic: سويچ (swīč)

→ German: Switch

Perhaps from Middle Dutch swijch (“twig”), first attested in c. 1592. The mechanical device for altering the direction of something sense is first attested in c. 1797, pertaining to pivoted rails on minecart railways, which were once wooden.

камута́тар

system allowing the interconnection of telephone lines

(card games) A variant of crazy eights where one card, such as an ace, reverses the direction of play.


pot

From Middle English pot, potte, from Old English pott (“pot”) and Old French pot (“pot”) (probably from Frankish *pott); both Old English and Frankish from Proto-Germanic *puttaz (“pot”), from Proto-Indo-European *budnós (“a type of vessel”).
Cognate with Saterland Frisian Pot (“pot”), Dutch pot (“pot”), German Low German Pott (“pot”), German Pott (“pot”), Swedish potta (“chamber pot”), Icelandic pottur (“tub, pot”), Old Armenian պոյտն (poytn, “pot, earthen pot”). Also, Old Norse pottr (“pot, tub, basin”).
The sense of ruin or deterioration was originally a general allusion to "being chopped up and tossed in a (normally fiery) pot, like a piece of meat" (i.e. to get wasted or done with (by someone)). The 'clean' slang term which was used in reference to toilet rooms and lavatories apparently derives from English chamberpots, although now usually encountered as potty in the context of children's toilet training.

pussitus

cue sports: act of causing a ball to fall into a pocket

not have a pot to piss in or a window to throw it out of

No one's interested. You need to sweeten the pot.

(gambling, poker) The money available to be won in a hand of poker or a round of other games of chance; (figuratively) any sum of money being used as an enticement.


pot

en-verb

pot (third-person singular simple present pots, present participle potting, simple past and past participle potted)

pots (present singular third-person)
potting (participle present)
potted (participle past)
potted (past)

(snooker, pool, billiards, transitive) To cause a ball to fall into a pocket.

The black ball doesn't pot; the red is in the way.

(snooker, pool, billiards, intransitive) To be capable of being potted.


pot

(roleplaying games, video games) Clipping of potion.


pot

Inherited from Middle French pot, from Old French pot (“pot”), from Vulgar Latin pottum, pottus (“pot, jar”), from Frankish *pott, from Proto-Germanic *puttaz (“pot, jar, tub”), from Proto-Indo-European *budn- (“a kind of vessel”). More at English pot.

der

c’est dans les vieux pots qu’on fait la meilleure soupe

(card games) pot, kitty, pool (money staked at cards, etc.)


pot

poturi (plural)
pot (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
potul (accusative definite nominative singular)
poturi (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
poturile (accusative definite nominative plural)
pot (indefinite singular)
potului (definite singular)
poturi (indefinite plural)
poturilor (definite plural)
potule (singular vocative)
poturilor (plural vocative)


arrow

From Middle English arwe, from Old English earh (oblique form ēarw-), from Proto-West Germanic *arhu, from Proto-Germanic *arhwō, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂érkʷo- (“bow, arrow”). Cognate with Faroese ørv (“arrow”), Icelandic ör (“arrow”), örvar (“arrows”), Gothic 𐌰𐍂𐍈𐌰𐌶𐌽𐌰 (arƕazna, “dart”), Latin arcus (“bow”).

The second arrow flew through the air in a drunken parabolic curve and nestled just below the previous dart. Twenty!
“Good arrows!” came from all around the room. Total silence came from the opposition corner.

2014, John Eaton, It's Gonna Rain All Night, page 182:


pair

en-noun

pair (plural pairs or (archaic or dialectal) pair)

pairs (plural)
pair (archaic dialectal plural)

→ Tokelauan: pea

From Middle English paire, from Old French paire, from Latin paria (“equals”), neuter plural of par (“pair”). Related to pār (“equal”, adj). Compare Saterland Frisian Poor (“pair”), West Frisian pear (“pair”), Dutch paar (“pair”), German Paar (“pair”), Italian paio (“pair”)

one hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen

a pair of scissors; two pairs of spectacles; several pairs of jeans

Used with binary nouns (often in the plural to indicate multiple instances, since such nouns are plural only, except in some technical contexts)

A pair is harder to drive than two mounts with separate riders.

A couple of working animals attached to work together, as by a yoke.

чифт

(card games) A poker hand that contains two cards of identical rank, which cannot also count as a better hand.

The Pirates took a pair from the Phillies.

(baseball, informal) A doubleheader, two games played on the same day between the same teams


sail

en-verb

sail (third-person singular simple present sails, present participle sailing, simple past and past participle sailed)

sails (present singular third-person)
sailing (participle present)
sailed (participle past)
sailed (past)

From Middle English sailen, saylen, seilen, seilien, from Old English seġlan, siġlan (“to sail”), from Proto-West Germanic *siglijan, from *siglijaną. Cognate with West Frisian sile, Low German seilen, Dutch zeilen, German segeln, Danish sejle, Swedish segla, Icelandic sigla.

He would sit his hat across the room, and we would sail cards into it.

2007, Johnny Hughes, Texas Poker Wisdom, page 22:

(card games, transitive) To deal out (cards) from a distance by impelling them across a surface.


食

Pictogram (象形): a mouth (亼) over a bowl of rice on a stand. While the current form is 亼+艮, the lower part (bowl of rice on a stand) is the pictogram 皀 and is similar but unrelated 良 or 艮. This is more visible in the form 𠊊.
Shuowen: Phono-semantic compound (形聲／形声, OC *lɯɡs, *ɦljɯɡ): phonetic 亼 (OC *zub) + semantic 皀; see 𠊊.
From Proto-Sino-Tibetan *m/s/g-ljak.

Han compound

𠊊
𩚁
𩚀
𩚃
𠋑
𨢁
𠊊
吃
𠋡
呷
噍

When playing blind chess, a rook can capture knights, cannons, advisors, bishops or pawns.

waan⁴⁻² maang⁴ kei⁴⁻² ge³ si⁴ hau⁶, geoi¹ ho² ji⁵ sik⁶ maa⁵, paau³, si⁶, zoeng⁶, zeot¹.

玩盲棋嘅時候，車可以食馬、炮、士、象、卒。

玩盲棋嘅时候，车可以食马、炮、士、象、卒。

(Cantonese, Hakka, board games) to capture

(Cantonese, mahjong) Short for 食糊 (“to win”).


食

→ Indonesian: ciak

→ Thai: เจี๊ยะ (jía)

Kwok (2018) reconstructs Proto-Southern Min *tsiaʔ⁸ and tentatively reconstructs Proto-Min *dziak (in Norman's system).
While often considered as the vernacular counterpart to etymology 1, it is unlikely to be related to etymology 1 (Norman, 1991; Klöter, 2005; Fuehrer and Yang, 2014). Schuessler (2007) suggests it derives from 嚼 (“to chew”) (probably based on Norman's unpublished manuscripts).

𠊊
𩚁
𩚀
𩚃
𠋑
𨢁
𠊊
吃
𠋡
呷
噍

(Eastern Min, Hokkien, Leizhou Min, board games) to capture


(card games) The symbol on playing cards for spades.


(card games) Symbol on playing cards for clubs.


(card games) The symbol on playing cards for clubs.


(card games) A symbol on playing cards for diamonds.


hockey

As has been mentioned, Darts of to-day is essentially a "public-house game," and in pretty nearly every inn, club, or institute where it has a footing (and in which has it not!) will be found minor variations in play and often games that are peculiar to the locality or even to the "school" itself. […] And in this domestic circle, at all events, it is thought that this set of Rules will prove a useful guide when taken in conjunction with what has already been said as regards the board, its position, the hockey-line, etc.

1950, Edmond Hoyle, Lawrence H. Dawson, “Darts”, in Hoyle’s Games Modernized, 20th edition, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, →OCLC; republished as The Complete Hoyle’s Games (Wordsworth Reference), Ware, Hertfordshire: Wordsworth Editions, 1994, →ISBN, page 457:

Henry Lewis's body was tense, taut, his toes against the hockey, his right arm raised, his left eye half-closed. With grim intensity, backed by years of practice and experience, he sighted along the steel point, drew his arm back—and let the dart fly.

1977, Harry Harrison, chapter 22, in Skyfall, [London]: Hamlyn Publishing Group, →OCLC:

Small bars would tend to produce short hockeys; the tiny fishing pubs of Yarmouth gave rise to 6ft marks […]

1985, Keith Turner, Darts, 1st Perennial Library edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Row, →ISBN, page 22:

(darts, dated) Alternative form of oche.


treff

treffek (plural)
treff (nominative singular)
treffek (nominative plural)
treffet (accusative singular)
treffeket (accusative plural)
treffnek (dative singular)
treffeknek (dative plural)
treffel (instrumental singular)
treffekkel (instrumental plural)
treffért (causal-final singular)
treffekért (causal-final plural)
treffé (singular translative)
treffekké (plural translative)
treffig (singular terminative)
treffekig (plural terminative)
treffként (essive-formal singular)
treffekként (essive-formal plural)
treffben (inessive singular)
treffekben (inessive plural)
treffen (singular superessive)
treffeken (plural superessive)
treffnél (adessive singular)
treffeknél (adessive plural)
treffbe (illative singular)
treffekbe (illative plural)
treffre (singular sublative)
treffekre (plural sublative)
treffhez (allative singular)
treffekhez (allative plural)
treffből (elative singular)
treffekből (elative plural)
treffről (delative singular)
treffekről (delative plural)
trefftől (ablative singular)
treffektől (ablative plural)
treffé (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
treffeké (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
trefféi (possessed-single possessive predicative singular)
treffekéi (plural possessed-single possessive predicative)
treffem (first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
treffjeim (first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
treffed (possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
treffjeid (possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
treffje (possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
treffjei (possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
treffünk (first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
treffjeink (first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
treffetek (plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
treffjeitek (plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
treffjük (plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
treffjeik (plural possessed-many possessive third-person)


ship

en-verb

ship (third-person singular simple present ships, present participle shipping, simple past and past participle shipped)

ships (present singular third-person)
shipping (participle present)
shipped (participle past)
shipped (past)

From Middle English schippen, schipen, from Old English sċipian, from Proto-Germanic *skipōną, from Proto-Germanic *skipą (“ship”).

(poker slang, transitive, intransitive) To go all in.


crossword

→ French: mots croisés (calque)

desc

→ Greek: σταυρόλεξο (stavrólexo) (calque)

→ Russian: кроссворд (krossvord)

(games, puzzles) A word puzzle in which interlocking words are entered usually horizontally and vertically into a grid based on clues given for each word.


electronic game

en-noun

electronic game (plural electronic games)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-electronic game.wav

(video games) A game played on an electronic device.


ESRB

Entertainment Software Rating Board
w:Entertainment Software Rating Board

(video games) Initialism of Entertainment Software Rating Board.


tern

PIE word
 *tréyes
The noun is derived from Late Middle English terne (“throw of a die or dice showing the number three”), from Old French terne (“gathering of three people; trinity”) (modern French terne), from Latin ternās, the accusative feminine plural of ternī (“three each; three at a time”), from ter (“thrice”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *tréyes (“three”)) + -ī (from -us (suffix forming adjectives)).
The adjective is either derived from the noun, or directly from Latin ternī (“three each; three at a time”); see above.

der

And yet, now even, if Madonna willed, / She'd win a tern in Thursday's lottery, / And better all things.

1856, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, “Seventh Book”, in Aurora Leigh, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1857, →OCLC, page 319:

(dated or obsolete) A thing with three components; a set of three things.

(gambling, dated) A lottery prize resulting from the favourable combination of three numbers in the draw.


glitch

en-noun

glitch (countable and uncountable, plural glitches)

Probably from Yiddish גליטש (glitsh), from German glitschig (“slippy”), from glitschen (“to slide, glide, slip”) + -ig (“-y”). Related to gleiten (“glide”). Cognate with French glisser (“to slip, slide, skid”).
Popularized in the 1960s, by the US space program. Attested in 1962 by American astronaut John Glenn, in reference to spikes in electrical current.

Performing this glitch gives you extra lives.

How to reach 8.555 ー The glitch
You need to have Wrex alive and sabotage the cure. Without the glitch, Wrex will discover the lie and try to kill you after Priority: Citadel II when you try to go back to the Normandy. Triggering this scene will remove Wrex and the Clan Urdnot in the war assets list
The glitch is easy, when you want to leave the Citadel, simply go to a fast travel shuttle, then in a DLC area (Dr. Bryson's Lab or Silversun Strip)
Then again the shuttle, and go back to the Normandy from here

2021 September 4, Paarnahkrin, “8.550 War Assets - How to achieve the highest possible score”, in Steam Community, archived from the original on 2021-12-07, Paarnahkrin's Guides:


glitch

en-verb

glitch (third-person singular simple present glitches, present participle glitching, simple past and past participle glitched)

glitches (present singular third-person)
glitching (participle present)
glitched (participle past)
glitched (past)

His character will glitch into the wall and out of the level.

(intransitive, video games) To perform an exploit or recreate a bug while playing a video game.


glitch

en glitch för att ta sig igenom en vägg

a glitch to get [take oneself] through a wall


spam

spam (third-person singular simple present spams, present participle spamming, simple past and past participle spammed)

spams (present singular third-person)
spamming (participle present)
spammed (participle past)
spammed (past)

The original sense (canned ham) is a proprietary name registered by Geo. A. Hormel & Co. in U.S., 1937. It is presumed to be a conflation of either "spiced ham" or "shoulder of pork and ham" but was soon extended to other kinds of canned meat. Hormel spells the trademarked name in all upper case.
The use for unsolicited and unwanted email derives from a Monty Python sketch (Flying Circus, Episode 25). In the 1970 sketch, a group of Vikings in a restaurant repeatedly chant the word "spam". The earliest recorded real-life use for this sense occurs around 1993 which finds reference in a newsgroup post dated March 31, 1993.
The term appears to have been used earlier in a different sense in relation to "Multi-User Dungeons" (MUDs), a kind of multi-user computer gaming environment before widespread use of the Internet, in the 1980s.

Stop spamming that special attack!

Spam the Z key to get a speed boost.

(transitive, by extension, computing, video games) To do something rapidly and repeatedly.


spam

spam (nominative singular)
spamu (genitive singular)
spamowi (dative singular)
spam (accusative singular)
spamem (instrumental singular)
spamie (locative singular)
spamie (singular vocative)

(computing, Internet) spam (unsolicited bulk electronic messages)


tap

tap (third-person singular simple present taps, present participle tapping, simple past and past participle tapped)

taps (present singular third-person)
tapping (participle present)
tapped (participle past)
tapped (past)
tap (infinitive)

The noun is derived from Middle English tappe (“hollow device for controlling the flow of liquid from a hole, cock, faucet, spigot; hole through which the liquid flows; the liquid which thus flows”), from Old English tæppa, from Proto-West Germanic *tappō, from Proto-Germanic *tappô (“a plug, tap; peg; tapering stick”), from Proto-Indo-European *deh₂p- (“to lose; to sacrifice”).
The verb is derived from Middle English tappen (“to obtain (liquid, chiefly liquor) from a tap; to obtain and sell (liquor)”), from Old English tæppian (“to provide (a container) with a stopper; to obtain (liquid) from a tap”), and then either:
* from Old English tæppa (see above) + -ian (suffix forming verbs); or
* from Proto-Germanic *tappōną, from *tappô (noun) (see above).
Verb sense 1.3.5 (“to turn over (a playing card or playing piece) to remind players that it has already been used in that round”) alludes to the abilities or resources of the card or piece having been drawn on to the point of temporary exhaustion: see verb sense 1.3.2.

точа

to draw off (a liquid) from a container or other source; to draw off a liquid from (a container or other source)

(board games, card games) To turn over (a playing card or playing piece) to remind players that it has already been used in that round.

kääntää

I think there's an expression in poker. I'll tap you, Mr. Maverick.

1957 October 6, Roy Huggins, “According to Hoyle”, in Maverick, season 1, episode 3 (television series), spoken by Samantha Crawford (Diane Brewster), Burbank, Calif.: Warner Bros. Pictures, →OCLC:

(poker) To force (an opponent) to place all their poker chips in the pot (that is, to go all in) by wagering all of one's own chips.

to force (an opponent) to place all their poker chips in the pot by wagering all of one’s own chips


length

en-noun

length (countable and uncountable, plural lengths)

From Middle English lengthe, from Old English lengþ, lengþu, from Proto-West Germanic *langiþu, from Proto-Germanic *langiþō, equivalent to long + -th. Cognate with Scots lenth, lainth (“length”), Saterland Frisian Loangte (“length”), West Frisian lingte, langte (“length”), Dutch lengte (“length”), German Low German Längde, Längd, Längte, Längt (“length”), Danish længde (“length”), Swedish längd (“length”), Icelandic lengd (“length”).

An artificial bid doesn't necessarily show length in the suit being bid, it has an altogether different meaning.

1999, Edwin B. Kantar, Eddie Kantar Teaches Advanced Bridge Defense, page 191:

(bridge) The number of cards held in a particular suit.


PSX

(video games, dated) The original PlayStation, first released 1994.

(video games) The PSX PlayStation, based on the original PlayStation, with an integrated DVD drive (2003).


spades

(card games) One of the four suits of playing cards, marked with the symbol ♠.

Griff and his cronies played spades at the back of the classroom.

2019, Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys, Fleet, page 57:

(card games) A card game in which the spade suit cards are trumps.


diamonds

(card games) One of the four suits of playing cards, marked with the symbol ♦.

دِينَارِيّ

one of the four suits of playing cards, marked with the symbol ♦


lewa

lewa (nominative singular)
lewy (nominative plural)
lewy (genitive singular)
lew (genitive plural)
lewie (dative singular)
lewom (dative plural)
lewę (accusative singular)
lewy (accusative plural)
lewą (instrumental singular)
lewami (instrumental plural)
lewie (locative singular)
lewach (locative plural)
lewo (singular vocative)
lewy (plural vocative)


side

side (countable and uncountable, plural sides)

From Middle English side, from Old English sīde (“side, flank”), from Proto-Germanic *sīdǭ (“side, flank, edge, shore”), from Proto-Indo-European *sēy- (“to send, throw, drop, sow, deposit”). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Siede (“side”), West Frisian side (“side”), Dutch zijde, zij (“side”), German Low German Sied (“side”), German Seite (“side”), Danish and Norwegian side (“side”), Swedish sida (“side”).

der

know which side one's bread is buttered on

laugh out of the other side of one's mouth

not be able to hit the broad side of a barn

the apples on the other side of the wall are the sweetest

the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence

the grass is always greener on the other side of the road

He had to put a bit of side on to hit the pink ball.

(sports, billiards, snooker, pool) Sidespin; english


hearts

(card games) One of the four suits of playing cards, in red, marked with the symbol ♥.

(card games) A trick-taking card game in which players are penalized for taking hearts and (especially) the queen of spades.


mate

From Middle English verb maten, from Middle French mater, from Old French noun mat (“checkmate”), from Persian شاه مات (šâh mât).


mate

en-verb

mate (third-person singular simple present mates, present participle mating, simple past and past participle mated)

mates (present singular third-person)
mating (participle present)
mated (participle past)
mated (past)


mate

(chess) to checkmate; to put the king of an opponent into checkmate


mate

From xaque mate (“checkmate”), from Arabic شَاه مَاتَ (šāh māta), from Persian شاه مات (šâh mât, “the king [is] dead”).

der

Arabic شَاه مَاتَ (šāh māta)


mate

From jaque mate (“checkmate”), from Arabic شَاه مَاتَ (šāh māta), from Persian شاه مات (šâh mât, “the king [is] dead”).

Arabic شَاه مَاتَ (šāh māta)


mate

Borrowed from Spanish mate, from jaque mate (“checkmate”), from Arabic شَاه مَاتَ (šāh māta), from Persian شاه مات (šâh mât, “the king [is] dead”).

Arabic شَاه مَاتَ (šāh māta)


clubs

(card games) One of the four suits of playing cards, marked with the symbol ♣.

اَلسِّبَاتِي

one of the four suits of playing cards, marked with the symbol ♣


score

non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger

From Middle English score, skore, schore, from Old English scoru (“notch; tally; score”), from Old Norse skor, from Proto-Germanic *skurō (“incision; tear; rift”), which is related to *skeraną (“to cut”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ker- (“cut”). Cognate with Icelandic skora, Swedish skåra, Danish skår. Related to shear.
For the sense “twenty”: The mark on a tally made by drovers for every twenty beasts passing through a tollgate.

der

Use a few “introductory plays” to become known to a casino before you go for a big score.

2013, Arnold Snyder, Big Book of Blackjack:

(gambling) An amount of money won in gambling; winnings.


score

en-verb

score (third-person singular simple present scores, present participle scoring, simple past and past participle scored)

scores (present singular third-person)
scoring (participle present)
scored (participle past)
scored (past)
score (infinitive)

→⇒ Irish: scóráil

[…] he scored big by hitting the jack pot at the Bellagio (he won $7,000). The next day, he won $15,000 on the nickel machines at the Palm Casino!

2005, Shannon Nash, For the Love of Money, page 215:

(transitive, intransitive) To obtain something desired.

To obtain something desired.
To win money by gambling.


heater

→ Japanese: ヒーター (hītā)

Emmy went on a heater in Las Vegas and came back six thousand dollars richer.

(gambling, slang) An extended winning streak.


jenny

Partially from generic use of the female given name Jenny (cf. Jane) and partially from informal pronunciations of engine.

Cream's potting had been extraordinary, extraordinary, I remember, said Goff. I never saw anything like it. We were watching breathless, as he set himself for a long thin jenny, with the black of all balls.

1953, Samuel Beckett, Watt, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Grove Press, published 1959, →OCLC:

In billiards and similar games, a powerful follow shot with plenty of topspin.


knock

knock (third-person singular simple present knocks, present participle knocking, simple past and past participle knocked)

knocks (present singular third-person)
knocking (participle present)
knocked (participle past)
knocked (past)

From Middle English knokken, from Old English cnocian, ġecnocian, cnucian (“to knock, pound on, beat”), from Proto-West Germanic *knokōn, from Proto-Germanic *knukōną (“to knock”), a suffixed form of *knu-, *knew- (“to pound on, beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *gnew-, *gen- (“to squeeze, pinch, kink, ball up, concentrate”). The English word is cognate with Middle High German knochen (“to hit”), Old English cnuian, cnuwian (“to pound, knock”), Old Norse knoka (compare Danish knuge (“to squeeze”), Swedish knocka (“to hug”)).

knock someone into the middle of next week

(intransitive, card games, rummy) To end play by declaring one's hand to have under a certain amount of deadwood.


loft

loft (third-person singular simple present lofts, present participle lofting, simple past and past participle lofted)

lofts (present singular third-person)
lofting (participle present)
lofted (participle past)
lofted (past)

From Middle English lofte (“air, sky, upper region, loft”), from Old English loft, (doublet of native Old English lyft) of North Germanic origin, from Old Norse lopt (“upper chamber, attic, region of sky, air”), from Proto-Germanic *luftuz (“air, sky”).
Akin to Scots lift (“air; sky; firmament”), Dutch lucht (“air”), German Luft (“air”), Old English lyft (“air”). Doublet of lift and luft. Related to aloft.

der

(bowling) To throw the ball erroneously through the air instead of releasing it on the lane's surface.


jackass

From the phonetic similarity of "jack, ace" to "jackass".

(poker slang) A jack and an ace as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em.