oda

oda (genitive)
oda (partitive)
oda (nominative singular)
odad (nominative plural)
oda (accusative nominative singular)
odad (accusative nominative plural)
oda (accusative genitive singular)
odad (accusative genitive plural)
oda (genitive singular)
odade (genitive plural)
oda (partitive singular)
odasid (partitive plural)
otta (illative singular)
odasse (illative singular)
odadesse (illative plural)
odas (inessive singular)
odades (inessive plural)
odast (elative singular)
odadest (elative plural)
odale (allative singular)
odadele (allative plural)
odal (adessive singular)
odadel (adessive plural)
odalt (ablative singular)
odadelt (ablative plural)
odaks (singular translative)
odadeks (plural translative)
odani (singular terminative)
odadeni (plural terminative)
odana (essive singular)
odadena (essive plural)
odata (abessive singular)
odadeta (abessive plural)
odaga (comitative singular)
odadega (comitative plural)

From Proto-Finnic *ota, possibly from Proto-Uralic *woča. Cognate to Finnish Otava (“Big Dipper”), Votic otava (“Big Dipper”), Veps odeg (“stick”), Northern Sami oahci (“obstacle”), Komi-Permyak водж (vodž, “fish-trap used during the winter”), Erzya ош (oš, “city”), and Forest Enets ба” (bǝʔ, “city, Ob delta”).


deathmatch

/ˈdɛθ.mæt͡ʃ/

There are only eight levels but the varied game modes (including time attacks, survivals, team deathmatches, hunts, and sieges) in both single and multi-player keeps things interesting.

The player continued to describe their own experience with deathmatch, explaining sometimes it takes several minutes for the deathmatch to load — meaning by the time they spawn, the game is almost over.

2023 August 5, Shay Robson, “Valorant players plead with Riot for overdue Deathmatch rework”, in Dexerto:

first-person shooter
first-person shooter

(video games) A competitive mode found in first-person shooter games in which competitors attempt to assassinate one another.


deathmatch

en-verb

deathmatch (third-person singular simple present deathmatches, present participle deathmatching, simple past and past participle deathmatched)

deathmatches (present singular third-person)
deathmatching (participle present)
deathmatched (participle past)
deathmatched (past)

/ˈdɛθ.mæt͡ʃ/

Doom video game (id Software, 1993): message shown when quitting
If I were your boss, I'd deathmatch ya in a minute!

(video games, transitive) To compete against in a deathmatch.

(video games, intransitive) To take part in deathmatch gaming.


mon

From Japanese 文 (mon). Cognate to wen, mun and van.

The shimonsen or shimon, originally worth four mon, but debased to two mon.

1902, Walter Del Mar, Around the World Through Japan, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., page 136:

(historical) The former currency of Japan until 1870, before the yen.


mon

From a dialectal variant of man; compare Western Middle English mon (alongside Eastern man).

Ee I'm allus glad to see a mon like thee. That's as welcome lad, as welcome as can be. Fotch thi cheer up t'table. Stop as long as th'art able. Fer I'm allus glad to see a mon like thee.

1974, “A Mon Like Thee”, in Best o't' Bunch, performed by The Oldham Tinkers:

I am a Black Country mon. Yow dow know and the Brummies woh understond.

2020, “Black Country Mon”performed by Johnny Cole:

(slang) A colloquial means of address of man in places such as Jamaica, and Lancashire, Shropshire and the Black Country in England.


mon

Clipping of monster, via Japanese モン (mon) in Pokémon, Digimon, etc.

Here they are, the fans voted for them, and here they are, the Mons that can...

2000 November 25, Thomas Conner, “Digimon Top Ten Choice List”, in alt.fan.digimon (Usenet):

When a mon attacks him, he returns the same strike with the world "Reflection" after it, double the original strength.

2003 February 15, sirSTACK, “Digimon #429”, in alt.fan.digimon (Usenet):

And thus did it come to pass that the boy and the two mons, after a brief final discussion began the training.

2011 June 6, Clayton, “PW! - Training Interlude”, in alt.games.nintendo.pokemon (Usenet):

(fandom slang) A creature in a video game, usually one which is captured, trained up and used in battles.

Pokemon, digimon and all other merchandised mons, what good parent will disagree with me that those little invading, mind rotting things should be tolerated... those should be illegal, too...

2001 May 27, Travis Anton, “Cigarette Smoke”, in alt.home.repair (Usenet):

And dont buy Pokemon or Digimon or any other bloody Mons or you will never hear the ned^([sic]) of it :-)

2001 May 24, Horace Wachope, “Kids Toys”, in alt.ozdebate (Usenet):

At any rate Digimon was the best mon/collector series we've seen yet, to the point its popularity was prolly bigger here than its marketing.

2003 December 9, tito, “Main difference between anime and U.S. cartoons?”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet):

(fandom slang) A video game or anime in which catching and battling creatures is an important element.


neutral

en-adj

neutral (comparative more neutral, superlative most neutral)

more neutral (comparative)
most neutral (superlative)

[ˈnuːt͡ʃɹəl]

From Middle French neutral (compare modern French neutre), from Latin neutrālis. By surface analysis, neuter + -al.

(roleplaying games) Having an alignment that is in between chaotic and lawful.


pasko

From Spanish pascua, from Vulgar Latin pascua, from Latin pascha, from Ancient Greek πάσχα (páskha, “Passover”), from Aramaic פסחא (paskha), from Hebrew פסח (pesakh).


reina

Inherited from Old Catalan reïna (with a shift in stress), from Latin rēgīna.


reina

→ Cebuano: rayna

→ Papiamentu: reina

→ Tagalog: reyna

Inherited from Old Spanish reyna (with a shift in stress), from Latin rēgīna. Compare Italian regina and Portuguese rainha.


item

From Middle English item, from Latin item (“also; in the same manner”). The present English meaning derives from a usage in lists, where the first entry would begin in primis (“firstly”) or imprimis, and the other entries with item (“also, moreover”). Later, the members of lists were referred to as "items".

(by extension, video games) An object that can be picked up for later use.

寶物

video games: object that can be picked up for later use


Sau

From Middle High German sū, from Old High German sū, from Proto-West Germanic *sū. Cognate with German Sau.


mise

en-verb

mise (third-person singular simple present mises, present participle mising, simple past and past participle mised)

mises (present singular third-person)
mising (participle present)
mised (participle past)
mised (past)

(gaming, slang) To make a risky move with no regard for the consequences when the alternative is certain defeat.


permanent

From Middle English permanent, permanente, from Middle French permanent, from Latin permanēns, from permaneō (“I stay through”). First attested in the 15th century.

(collectible card games) A card whose effects persist beyond the turn on which it is played.


meld

The verb is probably borrowed from Dutch melden (“to announce; to let (someone) know, report; (specifically) to declare in a card game”), ultimately from Proto-West Germanic *melþōn (“to announce, declare; to inform”), and Proto-Indo-European *meldʰ- (“to ask; to pray; to speak”).
The noun is derived from the verb.
cognates
* Dutch melden
* Old English meldian (“to announce, declare; to inform, notify”) (Middle English melden (“to accuse, inform against; to announce, declare”))

cog

The realization that Istra was in the room made him forget most of his melds at pinochle; […]

1914 February, Sinclair Lewis, “He is Blown by the Whirlwind”, in Our Mr. Wrenn: The Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man, New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC, page 231:

(card games) Especially in games of the rummy family: a combination of playing cards which is announced or played to score points.

အထွေ

combination of playing cards announced or played to score points


norm

From Latin norma (“a carpenter's square, a rule, a pattern, a precept”). Doublet of norma.

norm

math: function that maps vectors to non-negative reals

(chess) A high level of performance in a chess tournament, several of which are required for a player to receive a title.


scalp

en-verb

scalp (third-person singular simple present scalps, present participle scalping, simple past and past participle scalped)

scalps (present singular third-person)
scalping (participle present)
scalped (participle past)
scalped (past)

From Middle English scalp, skalp, scalpe (“crown of the head; skull”). Originally a northern word, and therefore probably from a North Germanic source, although the sense-development is unclear; compare Sylt North Frisian Skolp (“dandruff”), Old Norse skálpr (“sheath”), Old Swedish skalp, Dutch schelp (“shell”).

The only sure thing about scalping the Series today is that the scalper is paying the bookie a greater profit because he is making a greater number of bets.

1961, John Scarne, Complete Guide to Gambling, page 102:

(gambling) To bet on opposing competitors so as to make a profit from the bookmaker.


hijack

Possibly from a blend of highway + jacker (“one who holds up”) (1915).

blend

(poker slang) Preflop, the position two before the dealer.


wink

(tiddlywinks) Synonym of tiddlywink (“small disc used in the game of tiddlywinks”)


blow football

An indoor tabletop game, normally for children, simulating football (soccer), in which plastic straws are blown through in order to move a small ball and score goals.


zeppa

Borrowed from Lombardic *zippa, a late borrowing from Latin cippus or alteration of the earlier West Germanic *kippa. Compare dialectal German Kipfe (“axe, stave”), English chip, Dutch kip (“plow-beam”).

2013, Rachelle Bernstein, Le donne dalla caviglia in giù. Storia delle scarpe e delle donne che le hanno indossate, tr. by Ilaria Katerinov, Mondadori (publ.).
Nonostante i dubbi della nobildonna, Salvatore riuscì a convincerla a indossarne un paio, una domenica mattina a messa, e con grande sorpresa della signora le zeppe si riverlarono comodissime.

(please add an English translation of this quotation)


arnaq

arnaq (absolutive singular)
arnak (absolutive dual)
arnat (absolutive plural)
arnam (relative singular)
arnak (dual relative)
arnat (plural relative)
arnami (locative singular)
arnagni (dual locative)
arnani (locative plural)
arnamun (allative singular)
arnagnun (allative dual)
arnanun (allative plural)
arnamek (ablative singular)
arnagnek (ablative dual)
arnanek (ablative plural)
arnakun (perlative singular)
arnagnegun (dual perlative)
arnatgun (perlative plural)
arnatun (equative singular)
arnagtun (dual equative)
arnacetun (equative plural)

From Proto-Yupik *aʀnaʀ, from Proto-Eskimo *aʀnaʀ. Compare Greenlandic arnaq.


dealer

From Middle English delare, from Old English dǣlere, from Proto-West Germanic [Term?]. By surface analysis, deal + -er. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Deeler, West Frisian dieler, Dutch deler, German Teiler, Swedish delare.

That used car dealer gave me a great deal on my 1962 rusted-out Volkswagen bug!

One who deals in goods, especially automobiles; a middleman.

تَاجِر

one who deals in things, e.g. automobiles


pinball

en-noun

pinball (countable and uncountable, plural pinballs)

→ Portuguese: pinball

→ Spanish: pinball

(games) A game, played on a device with a sloping base, in which the player operates a spring-loaded plunger to shoot a ball, between obstacles, and attempts to hit targets and score points.


pinball

Unadapted borrowing from English pinball.


将軍

ja-noun

将(しょう)軍(ぐん) • (shōgun) ^(←しやうぐん (syaugun)?)

将軍 (canonical)
shōgun (romanization)
syaugun (romanization)
しやうぐん (hiragana historical)

→ Danish: shogun c

→ English: shogun

→ French: shogun m

→ Indonesian: syogun

→ Italian: shogun m

→ Polish: siogun m

→ Portuguese: xogum

/sʲaːᵑ kun/ → /ɕauɡun/ → /ɕɔːɡun/ → /ɕoːɡun/
From Middle Chinese compound 將軍 (MC tsjang kjun). Compare modern Min Nan 將軍／将军 (chiong-kun), Eastern Min 將軍／将军 (ciŏng-gŭng).
The “shogun” sense is originally short for 征夷大将軍 (seii taishōgun, literally “commander in chief of the expeditionary force to expel barbarians”).

*The abbreviations are only used as a typographical convention. They are pronounced the same as their full names.

(military) a commander of troops, especially of an expeditionary or frontline force

(Kawanakajima shogi) A piece in Kawanakajima shōgi


เม็ด

th-noun

เม็ด • (mét)

Cognate with Northern Thai ᨾᩮᩢ᩠ᨯ, Lao ເມັດ (met), Lü ᦵᦙᧆ (med), Tai Dam ꪣꪲꪒ, Shan မဵတ်ႉ (mâ̰et). Doublet of เมล็ด (má-lét) and เล็ด (lét).


roi

Antillean Creole: wa

Guianese Creole: rwè

Haitian Creole: wa

(perhaps) ⇒ Haitian Creole: lwa
→ English: loa

Karipúna Creole French: hué

Louisiana Creole: rwa

Seychellois Creole: lerwa

Inherited from Middle French roy, from Old French roi, rei, from Latin rēgem.

au royaume des aveugles, les borgnes sont rois


roi

fro-noun

roi oblique singular, m (oblique plural rois, nominative singular rois, nominative plural roi)

roi oblique singular or (canonical masculine)
rois (oblique plural)
rois (nominative singular)
roi (nominative plural)

desctree

Middle French: roy
French: roi, roy (obsolete) (pre-1800)
Antillean Creole: wa
Guianese Creole: rwè
Haitian Creole: wa
(perhaps) ⇒ Haitian Creole: lwa
→ English: loa
Karipúna Creole French: hué
Louisiana Creole: rwa
Seychellois Creole: lerwa

Norman:

Continental Normandy: rai, ré, rey

Guernsey: ré, roué

Jersey: rouai

Sark: rwe

Walloon: roy, rwè

→ Middle English: roy, roye

English: roy

rai

Le Roman de Tristan, Thomas d'Angleterre


precision

en-noun

precision (countable and uncountable, plural precisions)

/pɹɪˈsɪʒ.ən/

[pɹɪˈsɪʒ.n̩]

tarkkuus

the consistency of a number in a linear equation

(bridge) A bidding system that makes use of many artificial bids to describe a hand quite precisely.


pony

→ Belarusian: по́ні (póni)

→ Danish: pony

→ Dutch: pony
→ Indonesian: poni

→ Finnish: poni

→ French: poney
→ Romanian: ponei

→ Georgian: პონი (ṗoni)

→ German: Pony
→ Estonian: poni

→ Hungarian: póni

→ Irish: pónaí

→ Italian: pony

→ Japanese: ポニー (ponī)

→ Lithuanian: ponis

→ Maltese: poni

→ Norwegian: ponni

desc

→ Portuguese: pónei, pônei (Brazil), poney

→ Russian: пони (poni)

→ Spanish: poni

→ Swedish: ponny

→ Ukrainian: по́ні (póni)

1659 from Scots powny, apparently from Middle French poulenet (“little foal”), ultimately from Late Latin pullanus (“young of an animal”), from pullus (cognate to English foal). Sense “small serving of alcohol” from 19th century, both for small sizes generally and for a quarter pint specifically, from the small size.

uder

(slang, derogatory, video games) Ellipsis of Sony pony.


flipper

From flip + -er. Compare Saterland Frisian Flappert (“flipper, wing”).

cog

In marine mammals such as whales (or other aquatic animals such as sea turtles), a wide flat, limb adapted for swimming.

A flat lever in a pinball machine, triggered by the player to strike the ball and keep it in play.

(cricket) A type of ball bowled by a leg spin bowler, which spins backwards and skids off the pitch with a low bounce.

(informal, US) Television remote control, clicker.


flipper

From English flipper, the part of a pinball machine used to strike the ball up higher on the game surface.


flipper

Borrowed from English flip. Affix of flip + -er, with a germinated p to indicate a short preceding vowel. First attested in 1963.

Det är många som spelat flipper för att det är roligt, kanske tävlat mot kompisarna eller försökt slå personbästa. Men flipper är också en seriös tävlingssport med hundratusentals aktiva runt om i världen.

2022 December 4, Firas Razak, Jane Andersson, “16-årige Viggo yngste flippermästaren genom tiderna [16-year-old Viggo the youngest pinball champion of all time]”, in SVT Nyheter:

Many people have played pinball because it's fun, perhaps competing against their friends or trying to beat their personal best. But pinball is also a serious competitive sport with hundreds of thousands of active players around the world.


concave

From Middle English concave, from Old French concave, from Latin concavus.

Coordinate term: convex

(gambling) A playing card made concave for use in cheating.


CCG

(Canada, nautical, law enforcement) Initialism of Canadian Coast Guard.


movement

en-noun

movement (countable and uncountable, plural movements)

From Middle English mevement, from Old French movement (modern French mouvement), from movoir + -ment; cf. also Medieval Latin movimentum, from Latin movere (“move”). Doublet of moment and momentum. In this sense, displaced native Old English styring, which led to Modern English stirring.
Morphologically move + -ment.

eye movement desensitization and reprocessing

(bridge) A pattern in which pairs change opponents and boards move from table to table in duplicate bridge.


convex

Borrowed from Middle French convexe, from Latin convexus (“arched”).

Coordinate term: concave

(gambling) A playing card made convex for use in cheating.

Of all the devices for defrauding at poker, the “shiner,” or “convex” […] Modern convexes are also considerably larger than those of former days.

2019, John Philip Quinn, Fools of Fortune; or, Gambling and Gamblers:

(gambling) A small convex mirror used to cheat by observing other players' cards.


stun

en-verb

stun (third-person singular simple present stuns, present participle stunning, simple past and past participle stunned)

stuns (present singular third-person)
stunning (participle present)
stunned (participle past)
stunned (past)

From Middle English stunien, stonien, stounien, from Old English stunian (“to crash, make a loud sound, resound, roar, strike with a loud sound, dash, impinge, knock, confound, astonish, stupefy”), from Proto-West Germanic *stunōn, from Proto-Germanic *stunōną, *stunjaną (“to sound, crash, bang, groan”), from Proto-Germanic *stenaną (“to moan, shout”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tona-, *(s)tena- (“to thunder, roar, groan”) (compare thunder). Cognate with Middle Low German stonen (“to groan”), Middle High German stunen, stunden (“to drive, push, knock, strike”), Swedish stöna (“to moan, groan”), Danish stønne (“to moan, groan”), Icelandic stynja (“to moan”). Related also to Dutch steunen (“to groan; support”), German stöhnen (“to groan, moan”), German staunen (“to be astonished, be amazed, marvel at”), Russian стонать (stonatʹ), стена́ть (stenátʹ, “to moan, groan”). See also Occitan estonar, Old French estoner, English astonish.

cog

(snooker, billiards) To hit the cue ball so that it slides without topspin or backspin (and with or without sidespin) and continues at a natural angle after contact with the object ball

The monsters stun when you jump on them.

(intransitive, video games) To enter a stunned state.


stun

en-noun

stun (countable and uncountable, plural stuns)

Williams will need a lot of stun to avoid going in the middle pocket

(billiards, snooker, pool) The effect on the cue ball where the ball is hit without topspin, backspin or sidespin.


selfish

en-adj

selfish (comparative more selfish or (proscribed) selfisher, superlative most selfish or (proscribed) selfishest)

more selfish (comparative)
selfisher (comparative proscribed)
most selfish (superlative)
selfishest (proscribed superlative)

From self + -ish. Compare Danish selvisk (“selfish”), Swedish självisk (“selfish”).

With that said, there is a perk to Xiao being a selfish DPS. He plays like Razor where he needs to be out in the field more than 90 percent of the time. Compared to Diluc, Xiao is more independent when it comes to dealing damage.

(video games) Of video game characters: relying on their own actions and capabilities to be effective in the game, rather than on other characters.


bowler

(bowling) One who engages in the sport of bowling.


sink

en-verb

sink (third-person singular simple present sinks, present participle sinking, simple past sank or sunk, past participle sunk or sunken)

sinks (present singular third-person)
sinking (participle present)
sank (past)
sunk (past)
sunk (participle past)
sunken (participle past)

From Middle English synken, from Old English sincan, from Proto-West Germanic *sinkwan, from Proto-Germanic *sinkwaną, from Proto-Indo-European *sengʷ- (“to fall, sink”).
Compare West Frisian sinke, Low German sinken, Dutch zinken, German sinken, Danish and Norwegian Bokmål synke, Swedish sjunka. In the causative sense, it replaced Old English senċan (“make sink”) from Proto-Germanic *sankwijaną.

der

My sister beats me at pool in public a second time. I claim some dignity back by potting two of my balls before Tammy sinks the black.

2008, Edward Keating, The Joy of Ex: A Novel:

(heading, physical) To move or be moved into something.

(transitive, snooker, pool, billiards, golf) To pot; hit a ball into a pocket or hole.


ladino

pt-noun

ladino m (plural ladinos, feminine ladina, feminine plural ladinas)

ladinos (plural)
ladina (feminine)
ladinas (feminine plural)

Either borrowed from Spanish ladino or re-Latinized after Latin latinus. The inherited form from Vulgar Latin is Portuguese ladinho. Doublet of latino, which was a later borrowing.
The sense of "sly" developed from a sense of "learned", in reference to learned people who knew Classical Latin.


battere

it-verb

bàttere (first-person singular present bàtto, first-person singular past historic battéi, past participle battùto, auxiliary avére)

bàttere (canonical)
bàtto (first-person present singular)
battéi (first-person historic past singular)
battùto (participle past)
avére (auxiliary)
bàttere (infinitive)
avére (auxiliary)
battèndo (gerund)
battènte (participle present)
battùto (participle past)
bàtto (first-person indicative present singular)
bàtti (indicative present second-person singular)
bàtte (indicative present singular third-person)
battiàmo (first-person indicative plural present)
battéte (indicative plural present second-person)
bàttono (indicative plural present third-person)
battévo (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
battévi (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
battéva (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
battevàmo (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
battevàte (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
battévano (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
battéi (first-person historic indicative past singular)
battésti (historic indicative past second-person singular)
batté (historic indicative past singular third-person)
battémmo (first-person historic indicative past plural)
battéste (historic indicative past plural second-person)
battérono (historic indicative past plural third-person)
batterò (first-person future indicative singular)
batterài (future indicative second-person singular)
batterà (future indicative singular third-person)
batterémo (first-person future indicative plural)
batteréte (future indicative plural second-person)
batterànno (future indicative plural third-person)
batterèi (conditional first-person present singular)
batterésti (conditional present second-person singular)
batterèbbe (conditional present singular third-person)
batterébbe (conditional present singular third-person)
batterémmo (conditional first-person plural present)
batteréste (conditional plural present second-person)
batterèbbero (conditional plural present third-person)
batterébbero (conditional plural present third-person)
bàtta (first-person present singular subjunctive)
bàtta (present second-person singular subjunctive)
bàtta (present singular subjunctive third-person)
battiàmo (first-person plural present subjunctive)
battiàte (plural present second-person subjunctive)
bàttano (plural present subjunctive third-person)
battéssi (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
battéssi (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
battésse (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
battéssimo (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
battéste (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
battéssero (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
bàtti (imperative second-person singular)
bàtta (formal imperative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
battiàmo (first-person imperative plural)
battéte (imperative plural second-person)
bàttano (formal imperative plural second-person-semantically third-person)
bàttere (imperative negative second-person singular)
bàtta (formal imperative negative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
battiàmo (first-person imperative negative plural)
battéte (imperative negative plural second-person)
bàttano (formal imperative negative plural second-person-semantically third-person)

From Latin battere, from earlier battuere.

batterista

batteria (not from Italian but Old French)

(transitive, card games) to play (a card)

(transitive, card games) in the game of baccarà, to reveal (the cards)


blouse

→ German: Blouse, Bluse

→ Russian: лу́за (lúza)

belouse is earlier. The word appears already in the early 17ᵗʰ century and its origin is unknown.

(archaic) any one of the holes on a billiards table


hopper

From Middle English hoppere, alteration of *hoppe (found in grashoppe (“grasshopper”)), from Old English *hoppa (“one who hops, hopper”), equivalent to hop + -er. Cognate with Dutch hopper (“hopper”), Swedish hoppare (“hopper, jumper”), Icelandic hoppari (“hopper”).

der

(chess) A fairy chess piece which moves only by jumping over another piece.


cobbler

Probably a variant of or related to cob, cobb (“stony fruit kernel; nut used in the game of conkers, conker; game of conkers”), perhaps from Middle English cobbe (“head or leader; gangleader; bully (?); male swan, cob; the head; something rounded or in the form of a lump”): see further at etymology 3.

inh

(games) Synonym of conkers (“a game for two players in which the participants each have a horse-chestnut (known as a cobbler (sense 1.1) or conker) suspended from a length of string, and take turns to strike their opponent's conker with their own with the object of destroying the opponent's conker before their own is destroyed”)


checkers

(board games, US, Canada, in the singular) A game for two players played on a chessboard; the players have 12 pieces each, and the object is to capture all the opponent’s pieces by jumping over them. Other European varieties have larger boards and more playing pieces.


continue

en-verb

continue (third-person singular simple present continues, present participle continuing, simple past and past participle continued)

continues (present singular third-person)
continuing (participle present)
continued (participle past)
continued (past)

terminate

antonym(s) of “transitive, proceed with, to prolong”

From Middle English continuen, from Old French continuer, from Latin continuāre. Displaced native Old English þurhwunian.

(poker slang) To make a continuation bet.


continue

So if you died battling the green monster inside the cave—and you had run out of lives—maybe a continue would be available.

2008, Jeannie Novak, Luis Levy, Play the Game: The Parent's Guide to Video Games, →ISBN, page 48:

Moreover, where three lives and a sparse availability of extra life-giving '1-Ups' marked the 1991 experience, the iPod player is offered an unlimited number of continues with which to progress through the gameworld.

2012, James A. Newman, Best Before: Videogames, Supersession and Obsolescence, →ISBN, page 128:

(video games) An option allowing the player to resume play after game over, when all lives have been lost, while retaining their progress.


ricochet

Uncertain. The word first appears in the phrases chanson du/de riochet, fable du ricochet. This is apparently related to other story-titles such as the fable du rouge kokelet; other dialectal terms such as ripoton (“duckling”) and Norman recoquet (“chick”) has led to theories that the word originally indicated a "young cock". The sense-development is unclear.

(games) ducks and drakes, stone skipping


card game

(games) Any of the many games played with playing cards.

kaartspeletjie

any of very many games played with playing cards


contempt

en-noun

contempt (countable and uncountable, plural contempts)

From Latin contemptus (“scorn”), from contemnō (“I scorn, despise”), from com- + temnō (“I despise”). Displaced native Old English forsewennes.

(chess, uncountable) Ellipsis of contempt factor.


tref

trȅf (canonical masculine)
тре̏ф (Cyrillic)
trȅf (nominative singular)
trèfovi (nominative plural)
trèfa (genitive singular)
trèfovā (genitive plural)
trèfu (dative singular)
trèfovima (dative plural)
trȅf (accusative singular)
trèfove (accusative plural)
trȅfe (singular vocative)
trèfovi (plural vocative)
trèfu (locative singular)
trèfovima (locative plural)
trèfom (instrumental singular)
trèfovima (instrumental plural)


caballo

es-noun

caballo m (plural caballos, feminine yegua, feminine plural yeguas)

caballos (plural)
yegua (feminine)
yeguas (feminine plural)

Chavacano: caballo

Papiamentu: cabai

→ Alcozauca Mixtec: kuái̱

→ Aymara: kawallu

→ Bikol Central: kabayo

→ Cahuilla: kaváayu

→ Cebuano: kabayo

→ Central Huasteca Nahuatl: kauayoj

→ Central Nahuatl: cahuayoh

→ Chamicuro: kawali

→ Chaná: kuayó, cauáio (uncertain)

→ Chol: cawayuʼ

desc

→ Classical Nahuatl: cahuāllo, caballo, cahualloh, cahuayo, cauallo, cavallo

→ Guaraní: kavaju

→ Ilocano: kabalio

→ Ivatan: kabayu

→ Kapampangan: kabayu

→ Lake Miwok: kawáj

→ Mecayapan Nahuatl: cahua̱yoj

→ Mapudungun: kawell, kawellu

→ Maranao: kabayo

→ Mbyá Guaraní: kavaju

→ Nivaclé: cuvôyu

→ O'odham: kaviyu

→ Papantla Totonac: kawayu

→ Paraguayan Guaraní: kavaju

→ Pipil: kāwayu

→ Quechua: kawallu

→ Sayula Popoluca: cawa̱yu

→ Seri: caay

→ Tagalog: kabayo

→ Waray-Waray: kabayo

→ Yatzachi Zapotec: cabey

→ Yosondúa Mixtec: kuayu

→ Zoogocho Zapotec: cabayw

rural northern Spain, Andes Mountains, Paraguay, Philippines

Inherited from Late Latin caballus (“horse”), from Latin caballus (“pack horse”), of disputed origin.

inh+

a caballo regalado no le mires el diente


bye

Variant form of by, from Old English bī (“being near”).


kitty

(poker, slang) In a home game, a small, specified amount taken from each pot to pay the host's expenses.

(card games) A set of additional cards dealt face down in some games.

pöytäkortit

card games: set of additional cards dealt face down in some games


rush

Perhaps from Middle English ruschen, russchen (“to rush, startle, make a loud rushing noise”), from Old English hrysċan (“to jolt, startle”), from Proto-West Germanic *hurskijan, from Proto-Germanic *hurskijaną (“to startle, drive”), from *hurskaz (“fast, rapid, quick”), from Proto-Indo-European *ḱers- (“to run, hurry”).
Cognate with Old High German hursken (“to hurry, speed, incite, accelerate”), Old English horsc (“quick, quick-witted, clever”).
etymology note
An alternative etymology traces rush via Middle English rouschen (“to rush”) from Old English *rūscian (“to rush”) from Proto-Germanic *rūskōną (“to rush, storm, be fierce, be cruel”), a variant (with formative k) of Proto-Germanic *rūsōną (“to be cruel, storm, rush”) from Proto-Indo-European *(o)rewə- (“to drive, move, agitate”), making it akin to Old High German rosc, rosci (“quick”), Middle Low German rûschen (“to rush”), Middle High German rūschen, riuschen (“to rush”) (German rauschen (“to rush”)), North Frisian ruse (“to rush”), Middle Dutch ruuscen (“to make haste”), Middle Dutch rūsen (“to rush”) (Dutch ruisen (“to rush”)), Danish ruse (“to rush”), Swedish rusa (“to rush”). Compare Middle High German rūsch (“a charge, rush”). Influenced by Middle English russhen (“to force back”) from Anglo-Norman russher, russer from Old French ruser, rëuser.
Alternatively, according to the OED, perhaps an adaptation of Anglo-Norman russher, russer (“to force back, down, out of place, by violent impact", "to pull out or drag off violently or hastily”), from Old French re(h)usser, ruser (although the connection of the forms with single -s- and double -ss- is dubious; also adopted in English ruse; French ruser (“to retreat, drive back”)), from an assumed Vulgar Latin *refūsāre and Latin refundō (“I cause to flow back”), although connection to the same Germanic root is also possible. More at rouse.

раш

video games: act of running at another player with large swarm of weak units — see also zerg

(video games) The strategy of attacking an opponent with a large swarm of weak units, rather than spending time developing their abilities.


rush

en-verb

rush (third-person singular simple present rushes, present participle rushing, simple past and past participle rushed)

rushes (present singular third-person)
rushing (participle present)
rushed (participle past)
rushed (past)

(video games, slang, transitive) To attack (an opponent) with a large swarm of units.


bumper

Dutch: bumper

Japanese: バンパー (banpā)

Korean: 범퍼 (beompeo)

Russian: ба́мпер (bámper)

(billiards) A side wall of a pool table.

(pinball) An object on a playfield that applies force to the pinball when hit, often giving a minor increase in score.

(video games) A shoulder button on a gamepad.


viola

viola (flowering plant of the genus Viola)


viola

Uncertain, probably from Occitan viula, derivative of viular (“playing a string instrument” or “wind”).


backgammon

en-noun

backgammon (countable and uncountable, plural backgammons)

Probably from back + Middle English gamen, from Old English gamen (“amusement, game”).

"I have borrowed Mrs. Palmer's backgammon-board," said Isabella, whose notion of an elderly gentleman's amusements of an evening was derived from what she had seen Mr. Palmer do.

1838 (date written), L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter VII, in Lady Anne Granard; or, Keeping up Appearances. […], volume I, London: Henry Colburn, […], published 1842, →OCLC, page 90:

A board game for two players in which each has 15 stones which move between 24 triangular points according to the roll of a pair of dice; the object is to move all of one's pieces around, and bear them off the board.

[Book Pahlavi needed] (nywʾlthšyl /nēw-ardaxšēr/)


backgammon

backgammon (nominative singular)
backgammonit (nominative plural)
backgammon (accusative nominative singular)
backgammonit (accusative nominative plural)
backgammonin (accusative genitive singular)
backgammonit (accusative genitive plural)
backgammonin (genitive singular)
backgammonien (genitive plural)
backgammoneiden (genitive plural)
backgammoneitten (genitive plural)
backgammonia (partitive singular)
backgammoneita (partitive plural)
backgammoneja (partitive plural)
backgammonissa (inessive singular)
backgammoneissa (inessive plural)
backgammonista (elative singular)
backgammoneista (elative plural)
backgammoniin (illative singular)
backgammoneihin (illative plural)
backgammonilla (adessive singular)
backgammoneilla (adessive plural)
backgammonilta (ablative singular)
backgammoneilta (ablative plural)
backgammonille (allative singular)
backgammoneille (allative plural)
backgammonina (essive singular)
backgammoneina (essive plural)
backgammoniksi (singular translative)
backgammoneiksi (plural translative)
backgammonitta (abessive singular)
backgammoneitta (abessive plural)
backgammonein (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
backgammonini (nominative singular)
backgammonini (nominative plural)
backgammonini (accusative nominative singular)
backgammonini (accusative nominative plural)
backgammonini (accusative genitive singular)
backgammonini (accusative genitive plural)
backgammonini (genitive singular)
backgammonieni (genitive plural)
backgammoneideni (genitive plural)
backgammoneitteni (genitive plural)
backgammoniani (partitive singular)
backgammoneitani (partitive plural)
backgammonejani (partitive plural)
backgammonissani (inessive singular)
backgammoneissani (inessive plural)
backgammonistani (elative singular)
backgammoneistani (elative plural)
backgammoniini (illative singular)
backgammoneihini (illative plural)
backgammonillani (adessive singular)
backgammoneillani (adessive plural)
backgammoniltani (ablative singular)
backgammoneiltani (ablative plural)
backgammonilleni (allative singular)
backgammoneilleni (allative plural)
backgammoninani (essive singular)
backgammoneinani (essive plural)
backgammonikseni (singular translative)
backgammoneikseni (plural translative)
backgammonittani (abessive singular)
backgammoneittani (abessive plural)
backgammoneineni (comitative plural)
backgammonisi (nominative singular)
backgammonisi (nominative plural)
backgammonisi (accusative nominative singular)
backgammonisi (accusative nominative plural)
backgammonisi (accusative genitive singular)
backgammonisi (accusative genitive plural)
backgammonisi (genitive singular)
backgammoniesi (genitive plural)
backgammoneidesi (genitive plural)
backgammoneittesi (genitive plural)
backgammoniasi (partitive singular)
backgammoneitasi (partitive plural)
backgammonejasi (partitive plural)
backgammonissasi (inessive singular)
backgammoneissasi (inessive plural)
backgammonistasi (elative singular)
backgammoneistasi (elative plural)
backgammoniisi (illative singular)
backgammoneihisi (illative plural)
backgammonillasi (adessive singular)
backgammoneillasi (adessive plural)
backgammoniltasi (ablative singular)
backgammoneiltasi (ablative plural)
backgammonillesi (allative singular)
backgammoneillesi (allative plural)
backgammoninasi (essive singular)
backgammoneinasi (essive plural)
backgammoniksesi (singular translative)
backgammoneiksesi (plural translative)
backgammonittasi (abessive singular)
backgammoneittasi (abessive plural)
backgammoneinesi (comitative plural)
backgammonimme (nominative singular)
backgammonimme (nominative plural)
backgammonimme (accusative nominative singular)
backgammonimme (accusative nominative plural)
backgammonimme (accusative genitive singular)
backgammonimme (accusative genitive plural)
backgammonimme (genitive singular)
backgammoniemme (genitive plural)
backgammoneidemme (genitive plural)
backgammoneittemme (genitive plural)
backgammoniamme (partitive singular)
backgammoneitamme (partitive plural)
backgammonejamme (partitive plural)
backgammonissamme (inessive singular)
backgammoneissamme (inessive plural)
backgammonistamme (elative singular)
backgammoneistamme (elative plural)
backgammoniimme (illative singular)
backgammoneihimme (illative plural)
backgammonillamme (adessive singular)
backgammoneillamme (adessive plural)
backgammoniltamme (ablative singular)
backgammoneiltamme (ablative plural)
backgammonillemme (allative singular)
backgammoneillemme (allative plural)
backgammoninamme (essive singular)
backgammoneinamme (essive plural)
backgammoniksemme (singular translative)
backgammoneiksemme (plural translative)
backgammonittamme (abessive singular)
backgammoneittamme (abessive plural)
backgammoneinemme (comitative plural)
backgammoninne (nominative singular)
backgammoninne (nominative plural)
backgammoninne (accusative nominative singular)
backgammoninne (accusative nominative plural)
backgammoninne (accusative genitive singular)
backgammoninne (accusative genitive plural)
backgammoninne (genitive singular)
backgammonienne (genitive plural)
backgammoneidenne (genitive plural)
backgammoneittenne (genitive plural)
backgammonianne (partitive singular)
backgammoneitanne (partitive plural)
backgammonejanne (partitive plural)
backgammonissanne (inessive singular)
backgammoneissanne (inessive plural)
backgammonistanne (elative singular)
backgammoneistanne (elative plural)
backgammoniinne (illative singular)
backgammoneihinne (illative plural)
backgammonillanne (adessive singular)
backgammoneillanne (adessive plural)
backgammoniltanne (ablative singular)
backgammoneiltanne (ablative plural)
backgammonillenne (allative singular)
backgammoneillenne (allative plural)
backgammoninanne (essive singular)
backgammoneinanne (essive plural)
backgammoniksenne (singular translative)
backgammoneiksenne (plural translative)
backgammonittanne (abessive singular)
backgammoneittanne (abessive plural)
backgammoneinenne (comitative plural)
backgammoninsa (nominative singular)
backgammoninsa (nominative plural)
backgammoninsa (accusative nominative singular)
backgammoninsa (accusative nominative plural)
backgammoninsa (accusative genitive singular)
backgammoninsa (accusative genitive plural)
backgammoninsa (genitive singular)
backgammoniensa (genitive plural)
backgammoneidensa (genitive plural)
backgammoneittensa (genitive plural)
backgammoniaan (partitive singular)
backgammoniansa (partitive singular)
backgammoneitaan (partitive plural)
backgammonejaan (partitive plural)
backgammoneitansa (partitive plural)
backgammonejansa (partitive plural)
backgammonissaan (inessive singular)
backgammonissansa (inessive singular)
backgammoneissaan (inessive plural)
backgammoneissansa (inessive plural)
backgammonistaan (elative singular)
backgammonistansa (elative singular)
backgammoneistaan (elative plural)
backgammoneistansa (elative plural)
backgammoniinsa (illative singular)
backgammoneihinsa (illative plural)
backgammonillaan (adessive singular)
backgammonillansa (adessive singular)
backgammoneillaan (adessive plural)
backgammoneillansa (adessive plural)
backgammoniltaan (ablative singular)
backgammoniltansa (ablative singular)
backgammoneiltaan (ablative plural)
backgammoneiltansa (ablative plural)
backgammonilleen (allative singular)
backgammonillensa (allative singular)
backgammoneilleen (allative plural)
backgammoneillensa (allative plural)
backgammoninaan (essive singular)
backgammoninansa (essive singular)
backgammoneinaan (essive plural)
backgammoneinansa (essive plural)
backgammonikseen (singular translative)
backgammoniksensa (singular translative)
backgammoneikseen (plural translative)
backgammoneiksensa (plural translative)
backgammonittaan (abessive singular)
backgammonittansa (abessive singular)
backgammoneittaan (abessive plural)
backgammoneittansa (abessive plural)
backgammoneineen (comitative plural)
backgammoneinensa (comitative plural)


backgammon

Unadapted borrowing from English backgammon.


guild

From Middle English gilde, from Old Norse gildi (“payment, guild”). Related to geld, yield, yauld.

(video games) An organized group of players who regularly play together in a multiplayer game.


gambling

en-noun

gambling (usually uncountable, plural gamblings)

An activity characterised by a balance between winning and losing that is governed by a mixture of skill and chance, usually with money wagered on the outcome.


chunk

en-verb

chunk (third-person singular simple present chunks, present participle chunking, simple past and past participle chunked)

chunks (present singular third-person)
chunking (participle present)
chunked (participle past)
chunked (past)

Variant of chuck; or alternatively a diminutive of chump (“chunk; block”) + *-k (diminutive suffix) (compare hunk from hump, etc.).

He's chunked right before the next battle so he has to regen HP.

(transitive, video games) Deal a substantial amount of damage to an opponent.


declare

declare (third-person singular simple present declares, present participle declaring, simple past and past participle declared)

declares (present singular third-person)
declaring (participle present)
declared (participle past)
declared (past)
declare (infinitive)

From Middle English declaren, from Old French declarer, from Latin dēclārō (“to make clear”), from dē- + clārus (“clear”).

декларирам

to make outstanding debts, e.g. taxes, payable.

(card games) To show one's cards in order to score.


lily

From Middle English lilie, from Old English lilie, from Latin līlia, plural of līlium, from Ancient Greek λείριον (leírion). See there for more.

(card games, usually in the plural) A royal spade in auction bridge.


plain

en-adj

plain (comparative plainer, superlative plainest)

plainer (comparative)
plainest (superlative)

From Middle English pleyn, borrowed from Anglo-Norman pleyn, playn, Middle French plain, plein, and Old French plain, from Latin plānus (“flat, even, level, plain”). Doublet of llano, piano, and plane.


baccarat

First attested in the 19th century. Borrowed from French baccarat, baccara, likely named after the French town Baccarat (noted for glassmaking) in Grand Est, of ultimately unclear and debated origin (first attested in 1291. (uncertain)). If by some Vulgar Latin *Bacchara, the town is possibly named from Latin Bacchi ara ("altar of Bacchus"; the original pagan reference of the name was forgotten), name of an ancient Roman castellum, of which there remains a relic called the "Tower of Bacha" on the heights of Deneuvre, from whence Baccarat is an ancient suburb. Other hypotheses have also been suggested, including descent from Celtic.
Probably linked to Provençal baccara, although if the town etymology is correct, this may present some geographic difficulty.

unk

unclear and debated origin

(card games) A card game resembling chemin de fer with many forms - usually entailing the player(s) betting against two or three hands dealt - also bearing some similarities to blackjack.

Albert Guillaume
Baccarat, Meurthe-et-Moselle
baccarat


villain

Probably from Middle English vilein, from Old French vilein (modern French vilain), in turn from Late Latin villanus, meaning serf or peasant, someone who is bound to the soil of a Latin villa, which is to say, worked on the equivalent of a plantation in late Antiquity, in Italy or Gaul. Doublet of villein.

Count Dracula
Darth Vader
Dracula
Harry Potter
Lady Macbeth
Macbeth
Macbeth (character)
Othello
Sauron
Star Wars
The BFG
The Hobbit
The Lord of the Rings
The Merchant of Venice

Let's discuss how to play if you are the chip leader (that is, if you have more chips than all the villains).

(poker) Any opponent player, especially a hypothetical player for example and didactic purposes. Compare: hero (“the current player”).


LP

en-noun

LP (countable and uncountable, plural LPs)

(online gaming, Internet) Initialism of let's play.


chemin de fer

/ʃəˌmæ̃ də ˈfɛə/

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Persent101-chemin de fer.wav

Borrowed from French chemin de fer (literally “railway”), from being a faster variant of baccarat.

bor

Bond had spent the last two afternoons and most of the nights at the Casino, playing complicated progression systems on the even chances at roulette. He made a high banco at chemin-de-fer whenever he heard one offered.

1953, Ian Fleming, chapter 4, in Casino Royale, page 23:

The person who left at 1:00 is either Alice or the woman who played chemin de fer (9), so in either case she is a woman.

2005, Mark Zegarelli, Poker Logic Puzzles, →ISBN, page 73:

“Come on,” Kit motioning her with his head over to a chemin-de-fer table

2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, pages 603–4:


chemin de fer

desctree

سِكّةُ حَدِيدٍ

→ Arabic: سِكّةُ حَدِيدٍ (sikkatu ḥadīdin) (calque)
→ Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܣܸܟܬ݂ܵܐ ܕܦܪܸܙܠܵܐ (sikṯā d-prizlā) (calque)

desc

→ Armenian: շիմէնտիֆէր (šimēntifēr), շըմէնտուրա (šəmēntura)

→ Dutch: ijzerenweg (calque)

desctree

→ Ottoman Turkish: شمندوفر (şümendüfer, şömendüfer, şimendüfer, şemendüfer), شمندفر (şümendefer, şömendefer, şimendefer, şemendefer, şümendifer, şömendifer, şimendifer, şemendifer), شمندیفر (şümendifer, şömendifer, şimendifer, şemendifer)
Turkish: şümendüfer, şömendüfer, şimendüfer, şemendüfer, şümendefer, şömendefer, şimendefer, şemendefer, şümendifer, şömendifer, şimendifer, şemendifer (dated)

→ Turkish: demir yolu (calque)

→ Persian: راهآهن (râh-âhan) (calque)

→ Swedish: järnväg (calque)

→ Vietnamese: đường sắt (calque)

Literally, “iron way.” Compare German Eisenbahn, Italian ferrovia.


miles

la-noun

mīles m or f (genitive mīlitis); third declension

mīles (canonical feminine masculine)
mīlitis (genitive)
mīles (nominative singular)
mīlitēs (nominative plural)
mīlitis (genitive singular)
mīlitum (genitive plural)
mīlitī (dative singular)
mīlitibus (dative plural)
mīlitem (accusative singular)
mīlitēs (accusative plural)
mīlite (ablative singular)
mīlitibus (ablative plural)
mīles (singular vocative)
mīlitēs (plural vocative)

→ Italian: milite

→ Piedmontese: mìlit

→ Portuguese: mílite

Romanian: mire (uncertain)

→ Spanish: mílite

→ Welsh: milwr

Unknown. Possibly of Etruscan origin. The suffix seems similar to that of pedes, eques, veles, comes, but the origin of mīl- is opaque. A connection to mīlia (“thousands”), perhaps as "person going by the thousand(s)", is difficult to confidently motivate semantically.

A man in boardgames such as ludus latrunculi and chess.


acrostic

→ Irish: acrastach

Borrowed from Middle French acrostiche, acrostique (“acrostic”) (modern French acrostiche), and its etymon Late Latin acrostichis, from Ancient Greek ἀκροστιχίς (akrostikhís), from ἄκρο- (ákro-, prefix indicating, among other things, the extremity or tip of something) + στῐ́χος (stíkhos, “row or file of soldiers; line of poetry, verse”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *steygʰ- (“to climb, go”)).

der

He [Judas Maccabeus] was termed Mackabæus, becauſe he carried in his ſtandard, or vexillum militare, theſe four Hebrew letters, Mem, Chaph, Beth, and Jod, or M. C. B. and J. whereunto their points being added, which are their vowells, (for others they have none) his mott was Mackabai, whereof he took his name. Theſe four letters are the acroſtickes or initiall letters of theſe four wordes in the fifteenth chapter of the book of Exodus, Mi Chamocha Baalim Jehovah, which is in Latin Quis ſicut tu Deorum Jehova? ["Who among the gods is like you, O Adonai?", Exodus 15:11.]

1600 December 8, Abraham Hartwell, “Nº LXXXV. Of the Same [i.e., Of the Antiquity, Variety, and Reason of Motts, with Arms of Noblemen and Gentlemen in England].”, in Thomas Hearne, editor, A Collection of Curious Discourses Written by Eminent Antiquaries upon Several Heads in Our English Antiquities. […] In Two Volumes, 2nd edition, volume I, London: Printed by and for W. and J. Richardson, published 1771, →OCLC, pages 278–279:

I have written an acroſticke ſonet to his Maieſtie, a canzonet to the Queene, and another acroſticke unto the Prince; whoſe ſervant I am by vow, and ſubordinate ſubject by birth.

1603, Hugh Holland, “To Sir Robert Cotton, Knight, Lord of Cunnington”, in Pancharis: The First Booke. Containing the Preparation of the Loue betweene Ovven Tudyr, and the Queene, long since Intended to Her Maiden Maiestie: […], printed at London: By V[alentine] S[immes] for Clement Knight, →OCLC; republished as J[ohn] P[ayne] C[ollier], editor, Pancharis: The First Booke. […] (Illustrations of Old English Literature [Green Series]; volume 2, number 1), [London]: [Privately printed], 1866, →OCLC, page 55:

[L]et him that is melancholy […] apply his minde I ſay to Heraldry, Antiquity, invent Impreſſes, Emblemes; make Epithalamiums, Epitaphs, Elegies, Epigrams, Palindrona Epigrammata, Anagrams, Chronograms, Acroſticks, upon his friends names; […]

1638, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Exercise Rectified of Body and Minde”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy. […], 5th edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] [Robert Young, Miles Flesher, and Leonard Lichfield and William Turner] for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 2, section 2, member 4, page 282:

And afterwards gives as many reaſons for it, as there are letters in Hibernaculum Ciconiarum, and that too in the Acrostick way, each ſentence beginning with a letter of thoſe words, according to their order.

1684 August 30, “Disquisitio de Magia Divinatrice & Operatrice &c. Auctore Francisco Moncæio 4º Francofurti & Lipsiæ 1683 [book review]”, in Philosophical Transactions: Giving Some Accompt of the Present Undertakings, Studies and Labours of the Ingenious in Many Considerable Parts of the World, volume XIV, number 162, London: Printed by T. R. for John Martyn, printer to the Royal Society; […], published 1670, →OCLC, pages 707–708:

There is a most crying dullness on both sides. I have seen tory acrostics and whig anagrams, and do not quarrel with either of them, because they are whigs or tories, but because they are anagrams and acrostics.

1711 May 21 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “THURSDAY, May 10, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 61; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume I, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC, page 379:

But ſhould this Method fail, recourſe might be had to others more effectual, by Learned Men called Acroſticks and Anagrams. Firſt, might be found Men of Skill and Penetration who can diſcern that all initial Letters have political Meanings.

1726 October 28, [Jonathan Swift], “A Further Account of the Academy. […]”, in Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. […] [Gulliver’s Travels], volume II, London: […] Benj[amin] Motte, […], →OCLC, part III (A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Glubbdubdribb, Luggnagg, and Japan), page 92:

No Crambo, no Acrostic fine, / Great letters lacing down each line; / No ſtrange Conundrum, no invention / Beyond the reach of comprehenſion, / [...] / Shall ſtrive to pleaſe you, at th' expence / Of ſimple taſte, and common ſenſe.

a. 1765, Robert Lloyd, “The Puff. A Dialogue between the Bookseller and Author.”, in W[illiam] Kenrick, editor, The Poetical Works of Robert Lloyd, A.M. […] In Two Volumes, volume I, London: Printed for T[homas] Evans […], published 1774, →OCLC, page 175:

On this monument is a long epitaph in verse, which is printed in Prince's Worthies. It is an acrostic, the first letters of each line forming the words "Oliver Hill of Shilston."

1822, Daniel Lysons, Samuel Lysons, “Modbury”, in Magna Britannia; being a Concise Topographical Account of the Several Counties of Great Britain, volume VI (Containing Devonshire), part II, London: Printed for Thomas Cadell, […], →OCLC, footnote p, page 345:

I became a contributor to things monthly. I produced charade upon charade, rebus upon rebus, and acrostick upon acrostick, to the admiration of every body except my parents. Poor people! they were devoid of taste, and knew not the value of such a son.

1828 March 1, “Confessions over a Bottle”, in The Paisley Magazine, volume I, number 3, Paisley, Renfrewshire: David Dick, →OCLC, page 109:

Both poems, which were signed with pseudonyms, were acrostics, the initial letters spelling out a 'case.' 'Case' meant 'romance,' a formal coupling of two boys' names, with the name of the elder boy first. [...] But nothing much would have come of it had not another of the sixth-form members of the Poetry Society been in love with one of the smaller boys whose names appeared in the acrostics. In rage and jealousy he went to the headmaster and called his attention to the acrostic – which otherwise neither he nor any other of the masters would have noticed.

1929 November, Robert Graves, chapter VIII, in Good-bye to All That: An Autobiography, London: Jonathan Cape […], →OCLC, page 83:

A more general form of manipulation of linguistic signs is the acrostic, a set of verses (or words) whose initial letters form a word, phrase or even a sentence. The acrostic constituted a common feature of Egyptian texts as well as forming an important element in the Old Testament [...].

1987, Jack Goody, “Language and Writing”, in The Interface between the Written and the Oral (Studies in Literacy, Family, Culture and the State), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, New York, N.Y.: Cambridge University Press, published 1993, →ISBN, part IV (Writing and Its Impact on Individuals in Society), page 272:

Acrostics and acronyms are examples of mnemonic devices. [...] Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally (PEMDAS), has become the most well-known acrostic for helping students remember the order of operations when solving an algebraic equation. The acrostic reminds students to start by solving inside the parentheses, then simplifying the exponents, next multiplying or dividing (whichever comes first when looking from left to right), then finally adding or subtracting (whichever comes first from left to right).

2009, Marcia L. Tate, “Strategy 9: Mnemonic Devices”, in Mathematics Worksheets Dont Grow Dendrites: 20 Numeracy Strategies that Engage the Brain, PreK–8, Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Corwin Press, SAGE Publishing, →ISBN, page 65:

A poem or other text in which certain letters, often the first in each line, spell out a name or message.

acròstic

poem or text in which certain letters spell out a name or message

The Whole [of the Book of Zephaniah] is wrote in a very lively, tender, and pathetic Stile; and all the Chapters, except the laſt, (which ſeems to have been of later Compoſition than the reſt) are in Acroſtick Verſe, i.e. every Line, or Couplet, begins, in an Alphabetical Order, with ſome Letter in the Hebrew Alphabet.

1744, Thomas Stackhouse, “From the Death of Josiah to the Babylonish Captivity”, in A New History of the Holy Bible, from the Beginning of the World, to the Establishment of Christianity. […], 2nd edition, London: Printed for Stephen Austen, […], →OCLC, book VI, footnote, page 950:

Each of the five chapters of the Lamentations contains a distinct elegy, according to the number of letters in the Hebrew alphabet. And in the first four chapters the versification resembles acrostics. In the three first chapters each verse consists of three lines, and the initial letters of each verse are in the order of the Hebrew alphabet, with the exception that i. 7, and ii. 19, consist of five lines.

1837, George R[apall] Noyes, “Notes on Lamentations”, in A New Translation of the Hebrew Prophets, Arranged in Chronological Order, volume II (Containing Nahum, Zephaniah, Habakkuk, Obadiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations), Boston, Mass.: James Munroe and Company, →OCLC, page 288:

The psalm is an individual thanksgiving that publicizes the psalmist as an encouragement for all who struggle to remain loyal to their God. It is in acrostic form in which every line begins with a successive letter of the twenty-two letter Hebrew alphabet. […] The acrostic form perhaps explains why the specificity one expects in a thanksgiving is diluted.

2002, Richard J. Clifford, “Psalm 34”, in Psalms 1–72 (Abingdon Old Testament Commentaries), Nashville, Tenn.: Abingdon Press, →ISBN, page 173:

A poem in Hebrew in which successive lines or verses start with consecutive letters of the alphabet.

אקרוסטיכון

For those of you who are new to acrostics, here is what to do. Your goal is to figure out the quote in the grid. […] Reading down the first letter of each answer spells the name of the author and the title of the work from which the quote was taken.

2003, Anne Brown, “Introduction”, in Challenging Acrostic Puzzles, New York, N.Y.: Sterling Publishing Co., →ISBN, page 5:

A kind of word puzzle, whose solution forms an anagram of a quotation, with its initial letters often forming the name of the person quoted.


acrostic

en-adj

acrostic (comparative more acrostic, superlative most acrostic)

more acrostic (comparative)
most acrostic (superlative)

Other ancients have suggested that the original verses were written in hieroglyphs and also mentioned the acrostic code.

1998, Deborah J. Bennett, Randomness, Harvard University Press, page 42:


strip

en-verb

strip (third-person singular simple present strips, present participle stripping, simple past and past participle stripped)

strips (present singular third-person)
stripping (participle present)
stripped (participle past)
stripped (past)

From Middle English strepen, strippen, from Old English strīepan (“plunder”), from Proto-Germanic *strēpōną, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ter(h₁)- (“to be stiff; be rigid; exert”). Probably related to German Strafe (“deprivation, fine, punishment”).

cog

(transitive, bridge) To remove all cards of a particular suit from another player. (See also strip-squeeze.)

изтеглям

bridge: to remove all cards of a particular suit from another player


strip

strip poker; strip Scrabble

We're going to play Strip Monopoly.

1980, Victor Miller, Friday the 13th (film)

20 May 2018, Hadley Freeman in The Guardian, Is Meghan Markle the American the royals have needed all along?
What was going to happen to this cheeky boy, suddenly deprived of his fun-loving mother, and left with his cold father who barely touched him at her funeral? For a long time – a Nazi uniform here, a game of strip billiards there – it looked like the answer was: nothing good.

(attributively, of games) Denotes a version of a game in which losing players must progressively remove their clothes.


draughts

(board games, UK, Ireland, Commonwealth, uncountable) A board game for two players in which the players each have a set number of pieces (typically 12 or 20, depending on the rule set), known as men, and the object is to capture each of the opponent's pieces by jumping one's own pieces over the opponent's pieces.


blackjack

en-noun

blackjack (countable and uncountable, plural blackjacks)

→ Polish: blackjack

(card games) A common gambling card game in casinos, where the object is to get as close to 21 without going over.

廿一點

card game (the game where the aim is to score as close to twenty-one as possible without going over that amount)

(card games) A hand in the game of blackjack consisting of a face card and an ace.

(card games) A variant of switch where each player is initially dealt the same number of cards, usually seven, and when one player plays a black jack the player whose turn comes next has to pick up that many cards, unless they play a red jack (as this normally cancels a black jack).

(card games) A variant of hearts where the Jack of Spades is the penalty card.


blackjack

blackjack (nominative singular)
blackjacki (nominative plural)
blackjacka (genitive singular)
blackjacków (genitive plural)
blackjackowi (dative singular)
blackjackom (dative plural)
blackjacka (accusative singular)
blackjacki (accusative plural)
blackjackiem (instrumental singular)
blackjackami (instrumental plural)
blackjacku (locative singular)
blackjackach (locative plural)
blackjacku (singular vocative)
blackjacki (plural vocative)

/blɛɡˈd͡ʐɛk/

Unadapted borrowing from English blackjack.

ubor

(card games) blackjack (common gambling card game in casinos, where the object is to get as close to 21 without going over)


portable

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

[ˈpʰɔɹɾɪ̈bl̩]

Borrowed from Middle French portable, or from Latin portabilis.

siirrettävä rakennus

temporary building that is portable, especially one located at a school

(video games) A hand-held video gaming device.


busted flush

I thought I'd draw another spade, but I ended up with a busted flush.

(UK, poker) A potential flush which ultimately was not filled.


horizon

Inherited from Middle English orisonte, orisoun, from Middle French horizon, horizonte, from Old French orisonte, orison, via Latin horizōn, from Ancient Greek ὁρίζων (horízōn), from ὅρος (hóros, “boundary”).

(computer chess) The point at which a computer chess algorithm stops searching for further moves.


promotion

en-noun

promotion (countable and uncountable, plural promotions)

/pɹəˈmoʊʃən/

/pɹəˈməʊʃən/

Late Middle English, from Old French promocion, from Late Latin promotio, from Latin promoveo (“I move forward”).

(chess) Transformation of a pawn into a piece (by reaching the opponent's back rank).


idle

From Middle English idel, ydel, from Old English īdel (“idleness”), from the adjective (see above).


athletic

en-adj

athletic (comparative more athletic, superlative most athletic)

more athletic (comparative)
most athletic (superlative)

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *h₂weh₁-der.
Proto-Indo-European *-tḗr
Proto-Indo-European *-tromder.
Ancient Greek ἆθλον (âthlon)
Ancient Greek ᾱ̓θλέω (āthléō)
Proto-Indo-European *-teh₂der.
Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs)
Ancient Greek ἀθλητής (athlētḗs)
Proto-Indo-European *-kos
Ancient Greek -κός (-kós)
Ancient Greek -ικός (-ikós)
Ancient Greek ᾱ̓θλητῐκός (āthlētikós)bor.
Latin āthlēticuslbor.
French athlétiquebor.
English athletic
From French athlétique and Latin āthlēticus, from Ancient Greek ἀθλητικός (athlētikós, “relating to an athlete”), from ἀθλητής (athlētḗs, “athlete”): equivalent to athlete + -ic. For more, see athlete.

der

Are you a member of the American Athletic Association?

(not comparable) Having to do with athletes.

An athletic course in which Mario must traverse rotating lifts and stretch blocks.

2018, Super Mario Bros. Encyclopedia, Milwaukie: Dark Horse, →OCLC, page 65:

Mario levels are usually indicated to belong to one of five types (overworld, underground, athletic, castle, underwater)². The type determines the aesthetic style of the level, but also affects the challenges that are posed. For example, athletic levels usually contain platforms that are spaced far apart, as well as moving platforms. They thus require precise and timed jumps to traverse.

2019, S. M. Lucas, V. Volz, “Tile pattern KL-divergence for analysing and evolving game levels”, in Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference, page 171:

(video games) Of a level in a Super Mario game: with an emphasis on platforming challenge, often involving precise jumps between floating platforms above a bottomless pit, and having upbeat background music.


athletic

A muscular, large–boned person, in the typology of Ernst Kretschmer.


valet

valet (nominative singular)
valetler (nominative plural)
valetniñ (genitive singular)
valetlerniñ (genitive plural)
valetke (dative singular)
valetlerge (dative plural)
valetni (accusative singular)
valetlerni (accusative plural)
valette (locative singular)
valetlerde (locative plural)
valetten (ablative singular)
valetlerden (ablative plural)


valet

→ Bulgarian: вале́ (valé)

→ Greek: βαλές (valés)

→ Portuguese: valete

desctree

→ Russian: вале́т (valét)
→ Ingrian: valetti

→ Turkish: vale

Inherited from Old French vaslet, from Medieval Latin *vassellittus, diminutive of Late Latin vassallus (“manservant, domestic, retainer”), from Latin vassus (“servant”), from Gaulish *wassos (“young man, squire”), from Proto-Celtic *wastos (“servant”) (compare Old Irish foss and Welsh gwas).

der

(history) officer belonging to the king's house or a princely house, also valet de chambre

a wooden stand on which to hold clothes and accessories in preparation for dressing, also valet de nuit

valet de menuisier
valet de menuisier#French

(especially in the form valet de menuisier) a holdfast (a hooked tool to hold a workpiece down to a workbench)


kartta

kartta (nominative singular)
kartat (nominative plural)
kartan (genitive singular)
karttoin (genitive plural)
karttaa (partitive singular)
karttoja (partitive plural)
karttaa (illative singular)
karttoi (illative plural)
kartaas (inessive singular)
kartois (inessive plural)
kartast (elative singular)
kartoist (elative plural)
kartalle (allative singular)
kartoille (allative plural)
kartaal (adessive singular)
kartoil (adessive plural)
kartalt (ablative singular)
kartoilt (ablative plural)
kartaks (singular translative)
kartoiks (plural translative)
karttanna (essive singular)
karttaan (essive singular)
karttoinna (essive plural)
karttoin (essive plural)
karttant (exessive singular)
karttoint (exessive plural)

Borrowed from Russian карта (karta). Only distantly related to Finnish kartta and Swedish karta.


UE

(video games) Initialism of Unreal Engine.


teabag

en-verb

teabag (third-person singular simple present teabags, present participle teabagging, simple past and past participle teabagged)

teabags (present singular third-person)
teabagging (participle present)
teabagged (participle past)
teabagged (past)

The good news is, you don't have to play 10,000 matches to learn to hold your own against those obnoxious, teabagging 9-year-olds anymore!

(video games) To sit or crouch repeatedly on the head of another player's character after they are dead.


leapfrog

en-noun

leapfrog (countable and uncountable, plural leapfrogs)

Sam Hood
State Library of New South Wales

La Poſte (jeu d'Enfant) Skip-frog, or Leap-frog, a Boyiſh Play.

[1700, [Abel] Boyer, “POSTE”, in The Royal Dictionary Abridged. In Two Parts. I. French and English. II. English and French. Containing near Five Thousand Words More than any French and English Dictionary yet Extant, besides the Royal. To which is Added, the Accenting of All English Words, to Facilitate the Pronunciation of the English Tongue to Foreigners, part I, London: Printed for R. Clavel [et al.], →OCLC:

Are they [female students] not, indeed, generally wanting in that power of healthy stimulation which, exerted at proper intervals and sustained for proper periods, at once develops the mental powers, and sends forth the young boy-student from his Greek construing and his Latin hexameters to his leap-frog and cricket, with a zeal and an energy which he will never feel again when the school-room door has finally closed on him?

1864 September, Archibald Maclaren, “Girls’ Schools”, in David Masson, editor, Macmillan’s Magazine, volume X, number 59, London, Cambridge: Macmillan and Co., 16, Bedford Street, Covent Garden, page 414, column 1:

Madame could read with native grace and commendable fluency, making nimble leapfrogs over the heads of the exceptionally hard passages, but Leam had to spell every third word, and then she made a mess of it.

1876, E[lizabeth] Lynn Linton, “What Must Come”, in The Atonement of Leam Dundas, Philadelphia, Pa.: J. B. Lippincott & Co., →OCLC, part V, page 91, column 1:

(games) A game, often played by children, in which a player leaps like a frog over the back of another person who has stooped over. One variation of the game involves a number of people lining up in a row and bending over. The last person in the line then vaults forward over each of the others until he or she reaches the front of the line, whereupon he also bends over. The process is then repeated.


patzer

Uncertain, but probably from German Patzer (“bungler”), from patzen.

If you have learned the principle that it is inadvisable to move the same piece twice in the opening you would probably imagine that these guys are patzers.

2004 September 5, Nigel Short, The Sunday Telegraph:

(chess, informal, derogatory) Synonym of woodpusher: a bad player.


dungeon

From Middle English dongeoun (“keep of a castle; dungeon; abyss, cave, den; whirlpool”), from Anglo-Norman donjun (“keep of a castle; keep used as a prison; dungeon”) and continental Old French donjon (“keep of a castle”), from Vulgar Latin *dominiōnem, seemingly derived from Latin dominus (“master, lord”) perhaps via some figurative sense like “dominant building”. Doublet of donjon. The sense of “dungeon”, first attested in Anglo-Norman (13th c.) and apparently never in continental Old French, likely developed in combination with Old English dung (“underground prison cell”), whence Middle English donge (“pit, abyss” - senses that are also attested for Middle English dongeoun).
The game term has been popularized by Dungeons & Dragons.

der

“pit, abyss” - senses that are also attested for Middle English <i class="Latn mention" lang="enm">dongeoun</i>

(roleplaying games) An area inhabited by enemies, containing story objectives, treasure, and bosses.


nuts

If the board is 237QA, all of spades, the nuts is 45 of spades.

If the board is 4444J, the nuts is any hand with an ace.

(poker) An unbeatable hand; the best poker hand available.


paard

nl-noun

paard n (plural paarden, diminutive paardje n)

paarden (plural)
paardje (diminutive neuter)

desctree

Afrikaans: perd
→ Phuthi: ipere
→ Sotho: pere

Jersey Dutch: pêrt, pêrd

→ English: prad

From Middle Dutch pert, pāert, from Old Dutch *pered, *perid, from Proto-West Germanic *parafred, from Late Latin paraverēdus. Compare German Pferd. Doublet of palefroot.

Equus caballus
Equus caballus#Translingual

(nautical) a rope hanging beneath a spar or other horizontal beam, often fixed in place by other ropes


solo

Borrowed from Italian solo, from Latin sōlus, probably related to se (“himself”).

(games) A card game similar to whist in which each player plays against the others in turn without a partner


solo

(card games) solo (a trick-taking card game played with 36 cards, similar to frog)


casual

/ˈkɛʒ(ʉː)əl/

From Middle French casuel, from Late Latin cāsuālis (“happening by chance”), from Latin cāsus (“event”) (English case), from cadere (“to fall”) (whence English cadence).

der

The devs dumbed the game down so the casuals could enjoy it.

(video games, informal, derogatory) A player of casual games.


blank

From Middle English blank, blonc, blaunc, blaunche, from Anglo-Norman blonc, blaunc, blaunche, from Old French blanc, feminine blanche, from Frankish *blank (“gleaming, white, blinding”), from Proto-Germanic *blankaz (“white, bright, blinding”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleyǵ- (“to shine”). Akin to Old High German blanch (“shining, bright, white”) (German blank), Old English blanc (“white, grey”), blanca (“white steed”), Spanish blanco. More at blink, blind, blanch. Doublet of blanc.

cog

the double blank

the six blank

(dominoes) A domino without points on one or both of its divisions.


blank

de-adj

blank (strong nominative masculine singular blanker, comparative blanker, superlative am blanksten)

blanker (masculine nominative singular strong)
blanker (comparative)
am blanksten (superlative)
blank (masculine predicative singular)
blank (feminine predicative singular)
blank (neuter predicative singular)
blank (plural predicative)
blanker (masculine nominative singular strong without-article)
blanke (feminine nominative singular strong without-article)
blankes (neuter nominative singular strong without-article)
blanke (nominative plural strong without-article)
blanken (genitive masculine singular strong without-article)
blanker (feminine genitive singular strong without-article)
blanken (genitive neuter singular strong without-article)
blanker (genitive plural strong without-article)
blankem (dative masculine singular strong without-article)
blanker (dative feminine singular strong without-article)
blankem (dative neuter singular strong without-article)
blanken (dative plural strong without-article)
blanken (accusative masculine singular strong without-article)
blanke (accusative feminine singular strong without-article)
blankes (accusative neuter singular strong without-article)
blanke (accusative plural strong without-article)
der blanke (definite includes-article masculine nominative singular weak)
die blanke (definite feminine includes-article nominative singular weak)
das blanke (definite includes-article neuter nominative singular weak)
die blanken (definite includes-article nominative plural weak)
des blanken (definite genitive includes-article masculine singular weak)
der blanken (definite feminine genitive includes-article singular weak)
des blanken (definite genitive includes-article neuter singular weak)
der blanken (definite genitive includes-article plural weak)
dem blanken (dative definite includes-article masculine singular weak)
der blanken (dative definite feminine includes-article singular weak)
dem blanken (dative definite includes-article neuter singular weak)
den blanken (dative definite includes-article plural weak)
den blanken (accusative definite includes-article masculine singular weak)
die blanke (accusative definite feminine includes-article singular weak)
das blanke (accusative definite includes-article neuter singular weak)
die blanken (accusative definite includes-article plural weak)
ein blanker (includes-article indefinite masculine mixed nominative singular)
eine blanke (feminine includes-article indefinite mixed nominative singular)
ein blankes (includes-article indefinite mixed neuter nominative singular)
blanken (indefinite mixed nominative plural)
keine blanken (includes-article indefinite mixed negative nominative plural)
eines blanken (genitive includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular)
einer blanken (feminine genitive includes-article indefinite mixed singular)
eines blanken (genitive includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular)
blanken (genitive indefinite mixed plural)
keiner blanken (genitive includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural)
einem blanken (dative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular)
einer blanken (dative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed singular)
einem blanken (dative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular)
blanken (dative indefinite mixed plural)
keinen blanken (dative includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural)
einen blanken (accusative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular)
eine blanke (accusative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed singular)
ein blankes (accusative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular)
blanken (accusative indefinite mixed plural)
keine blanken (accusative includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural)
blanker (comparative masculine predicative singular)
blanker (comparative feminine predicative singular)
blanker (comparative neuter predicative singular)
blanker (comparative plural predicative)
blankerer (comparative masculine nominative singular strong without-article)
blankere (comparative feminine nominative singular strong without-article)
blankeres (comparative neuter nominative singular strong without-article)
blankere (comparative nominative plural strong without-article)
blankeren (comparative genitive masculine singular strong without-article)
blankerer (comparative feminine genitive singular strong without-article)
blankeren (comparative genitive neuter singular strong without-article)
blankerer (comparative genitive plural strong without-article)
blankerem (comparative dative masculine singular strong without-article)
blankerer (comparative dative feminine singular strong without-article)
blankerem (comparative dative neuter singular strong without-article)
blankeren (comparative dative plural strong without-article)
blankeren (accusative comparative masculine singular strong without-article)
blankere (accusative comparative feminine singular strong without-article)
blankeres (accusative comparative neuter singular strong without-article)
blankere (accusative comparative plural strong without-article)
der blankere (comparative definite includes-article masculine nominative singular weak)
die blankere (comparative definite feminine includes-article nominative singular weak)
das blankere (comparative definite includes-article neuter nominative singular weak)
die blankeren (comparative definite includes-article nominative plural weak)
des blankeren (comparative definite genitive includes-article masculine singular weak)
der blankeren (comparative definite feminine genitive includes-article singular weak)
des blankeren (comparative definite genitive includes-article neuter singular weak)
der blankeren (comparative definite genitive includes-article plural weak)
dem blankeren (comparative dative definite includes-article masculine singular weak)
der blankeren (comparative dative definite feminine includes-article singular weak)
dem blankeren (comparative dative definite includes-article neuter singular weak)
den blankeren (comparative dative definite includes-article plural weak)
den blankeren (accusative comparative definite includes-article masculine singular weak)
die blankere (accusative comparative definite feminine includes-article singular weak)
das blankere (accusative comparative definite includes-article neuter singular weak)
die blankeren (accusative comparative definite includes-article plural weak)
ein blankerer (comparative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed nominative singular)
eine blankere (comparative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed nominative singular)
ein blankeres (comparative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter nominative singular)
blankeren (comparative indefinite mixed nominative plural)
keine blankeren (comparative includes-article indefinite mixed negative nominative plural)
eines blankeren (comparative genitive includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular)
einer blankeren (comparative feminine genitive includes-article indefinite mixed singular)
eines blankeren (comparative genitive includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular)
blankeren (comparative genitive indefinite mixed plural)
keiner blankeren (comparative genitive includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural)
einem blankeren (comparative dative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular)
einer blankeren (comparative dative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed singular)
einem blankeren (comparative dative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular)
blankeren (comparative dative indefinite mixed plural)
keinen blankeren (comparative dative includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural)
einen blankeren (accusative comparative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular)
eine blankere (accusative comparative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed singular)
ein blankeres (accusative comparative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular)
blankeren (accusative comparative indefinite mixed plural)
keine blankeren (accusative comparative includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural)
am blanksten (masculine predicative singular superlative)
am blanksten (feminine predicative singular superlative)
am blanksten (neuter predicative singular superlative)
am blanksten (plural predicative superlative)
blankster (masculine nominative singular strong superlative without-article)
blankste (feminine nominative singular strong superlative without-article)
blankstes (neuter nominative singular strong superlative without-article)
blankste (nominative plural strong superlative without-article)
blanksten (genitive masculine singular strong superlative without-article)
blankster (feminine genitive singular strong superlative without-article)
blanksten (genitive neuter singular strong superlative without-article)
blankster (genitive plural strong superlative without-article)
blankstem (dative masculine singular strong superlative without-article)
blankster (dative feminine singular strong superlative without-article)
blankstem (dative neuter singular strong superlative without-article)
blanksten (dative plural strong superlative without-article)
blanksten (accusative masculine singular strong superlative without-article)
blankste (accusative feminine singular strong superlative without-article)
blankstes (accusative neuter singular strong superlative without-article)
blankste (accusative plural strong superlative without-article)
der blankste (definite includes-article masculine nominative singular superlative weak)
die blankste (definite feminine includes-article nominative singular superlative weak)
das blankste (definite includes-article neuter nominative singular superlative weak)
die blanksten (definite includes-article nominative plural superlative weak)
des blanksten (definite genitive includes-article masculine singular superlative weak)
der blanksten (definite feminine genitive includes-article singular superlative weak)
des blanksten (definite genitive includes-article neuter singular superlative weak)
der blanksten (definite genitive includes-article plural superlative weak)
dem blanksten (dative definite includes-article masculine singular superlative weak)
der blanksten (dative definite feminine includes-article singular superlative weak)
dem blanksten (dative definite includes-article neuter singular superlative weak)
den blanksten (dative definite includes-article plural superlative weak)
den blanksten (accusative definite includes-article masculine singular superlative weak)
die blankste (accusative definite feminine includes-article singular superlative weak)
das blankste (accusative definite includes-article neuter singular superlative weak)
die blanksten (accusative definite includes-article plural superlative weak)
ein blankster (includes-article indefinite masculine mixed nominative singular superlative)
eine blankste (feminine includes-article indefinite mixed nominative singular superlative)
ein blankstes (includes-article indefinite mixed neuter nominative singular superlative)
blanksten (indefinite mixed nominative plural superlative)
keine blanksten (includes-article indefinite mixed negative nominative plural superlative)
eines blanksten (genitive includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular superlative)
einer blanksten (feminine genitive includes-article indefinite mixed singular superlative)
eines blanksten (genitive includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular superlative)
blanksten (genitive indefinite mixed plural superlative)
keiner blanksten (genitive includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural superlative)
einem blanksten (dative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular superlative)
einer blanksten (dative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed singular superlative)
einem blanksten (dative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular superlative)
blanksten (dative indefinite mixed plural superlative)
keinen blanksten (dative includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural superlative)
einen blanksten (accusative includes-article indefinite masculine mixed singular superlative)
eine blankste (accusative feminine includes-article indefinite mixed singular superlative)
ein blankstes (accusative includes-article indefinite mixed neuter singular superlative)
blanksten (accusative indefinite mixed plural superlative)
keine blanksten (accusative includes-article indefinite mixed negative plural superlative)

From Middle High German blanc, from Old High German blanc (“shining, bright”), from Proto-West Germanic *blank. Doublet of Plenk.

inh

Hätte ich Trumpf ausgespielt, wäre mein Fuchs blank gewesen.

If I had played trump, my “fox” [ace of diamonds in Doppelkopf] would have been my last trump card.

(card games) being a player’s last one of a respective grouping of cards (which means that the card is unprotected when the player must follow suit in trick-taking games)


miss

en-verb

miss (third-person singular simple present misses, present participle missing, simple past and past participle missed)

misses (present singular third-person)
missing (participle present)
missed (participle past)
missed (past)

desc

→ Kashubian: zmisowac (Canada, United States)

From Middle English missen, from Old English missan (“to miss, escape the notice of a person”), from Proto-West Germanic *missijan, from Proto-Germanic *missijaną (“to miss, go wrong, fail”), from Proto-Indo-European *meytH- (“to change, exchange, trade”). Cognate with West Frisian misse (“to miss”), Dutch missen (“to miss”), German missen (“to miss”), Norwegian Bokmål and Danish miste (“to lose”), Swedish missa (“to miss”), Norwegian Nynorsk and Icelandic missa (“to lose”).

inh

you don't miss the water till the well runs dry

you miss 100% of the shots you don't take

you never miss the water till the well runs dry

you never miss the water until the well runs dry

Player A: J7. Player B: Q6. Table: 283. The flop missed both players!

(poker, said of a card) To fail to help the hand of a player.


miss

en-noun

miss (countable and uncountable, plural misses)

(card games) In the game of three-card loo, an extra hand, dealt on the table, which may be substituted for the hand dealt to a player.


quadro

it-noun

quadro m (plural quadri, diminutive quadrétto or quadrùccio, augmentative quadróne, pejorative quadràccio)

quadri (plural)
quadrétto (diminutive)
quadrùccio (diminutive)
quadróne (augmentative)
quadràccio (pejorative)

→ French: cadre

→ Slavomolisano: kvadr

From Latin quadrum. Compare Portuguese quadro.

(in the plural, card games) diamonds (suit of playing cards)


quadro

From Latin quadrum. Compare Galician cadro, Spanish cuadro, and Italian quadro.

(electronics, film, animation, video games) division of time on a multimedia timeline


donna

donnétta<q:sometimes derogatory or endearing>;donnìna,donnìno<g:m><pos:also, “house-husband”>

donnùccia,donnicciòla<pos:also, “weak or gossipy man”>

donnàccola<t:common womman; gossip>,donnùcola<t:poor woman in bad conditions>,donnàcchera<t:filthy or cowardly woman>

donnàccia<t:bad-tempered woman or woman of bad habits>

donna f (plural donne, diminutive (sometimes derogatory or endearing) donnétta; donnìna or donnìno m (also, “house-husband”), augmentative donnóna or donnóne m, pejorative donnàccia (“bad-tempered woman or woman of bad habits”), derogatory donnàccola (“common womman; gossip”) or donnùcola (“poor woman in bad conditions”) or donnàcchera (“filthy or cowardly woman”), diminutive-derogatory donnùccia or donnicciòla (also, “weak or gossipy man”))

donne (plural)
donnétta (derogatory diminutive endearing sometimes)
donnóna (augmentative)
donnóne (augmentative masculine)
donnàccia (pejorative)
donnàccola (derogatory)
donnùcola (derogatory)
donnàcchera (derogatory)

→ English: donna

→ Swedish: donna

From Late Latin domna, shortened variant of Latin domina (“lady, mistress of an estate or household”), from dominus (“master”), from domus (“home”). Doublet of dama. Cognate with Sicilian donna.


donna

→ Italian: donna (regional)

From Late Latin domna, shortened variant of Latin domina (“lady, mistress of an estate or household”), from dominus (“master”), from domus (“home”). Cognate with Italian donna, French dame, Portuguese dona, Spanish donna and dueña.


prophylaxis

en-noun

prophylaxis (countable and uncountable, plural prophylaxes)

From Latin, from Ancient Greek πρό (pró, “before”) + φύλαξις (phúlaxis, “a watching, guarding”).

(chess) A move or strategy that frustrates an opponent's plan or tactic.


maverick

Named after Texan lawyer and politician Samuel Maverick (1803–1870), who refused to brand his cattle. For probable origin and meaning, see Maverick.
The poker noun sense (“a queen and a jack as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em”) may be from the theme song of the US Western television series Maverick (1957–1962), which says of the eponymous protagonist that “[g]amblin’ is his game” and that he is “livin’ on jacks and queens”.

named-after

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


mâță

mâțe (plural)
mâță (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
mâța (accusative definite nominative singular)
mâțe (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
mâțele (accusative definite nominative plural)
mâțe (indefinite singular)
mâței (definite singular)
mâțe (indefinite plural)
mâțelor (definite plural)
mâță (singular vocative)
mâțo (singular vocative)
mâțelor (plural vocative)

Probably an onomatopoeic expressive creation, with similar words in many languages (compare Albanian mace). See also motan.
Alternatively of Romance origin, compare Italian micio, Old French mite and Spanish miz(o). See also German Mieze.
Could also be of Proto-Slavic *maca origin.


goulash

en-noun

goulash (countable and uncountable, plural goulashes)

Borrowed from Hungarian gul(y)ás, short for gulyás hús (“beef or lamb soup made by herdsmen while pasturing”), from gulyás (“herdsman”) + hús (“meat”). First attested in English 1866.

(bridge) A style of play in which the cards are not thoroughly shuffled between consecutive deals, so as to make the suits less evenly distributed between the players.


dado

Inherited from Old Galician-Portuguese dado, itself from a form *datu of uncertain origin; possibly from Classical Arabic أَعْدَاد (ʔaʕdād, “numbers”), or from Latin datum. Compare Spanish dado, Catalan dau, Italian dado, French dé.


dado

Uncertain. Perhaps from a Vulgar Latin *dadu, itself either from Latin datum (“thrown, given”), or from Arabic أَعْدَاد (ʔaʕdād, “numbers”). Compare Spanish and Portuguese dado, Catalan dau, French dé.

giocare a dadi


dado

→ Malay: dadu

Indonesian: dadu

→ Swahili: dadu

From Old Galician-Portuguese dado, itself from a Vulgar Latin *dadu, of uncertain origin; possibly from Classical Arabic أَعْدَاد (ʔaʕdād, “numbers”), or from Latin datum. Compare Spanish dado, Catalan dau, Italian dado, French dé.

O dado mais comum tem seis lados.


dado

From a Vulgar Latin *dadu, of uncertain origin; perhaps from Arabic أَعْدَاد (ʔaʕdād, “numbers”), or alternatively from Latin dātum. Compare Portuguese dado, Catalan dau, Italian dado. Cf. also French dé.


atuto

eo-head

atuto (accusative singular atuton, plural atutoj, accusative plural atutojn)

atuton (accusative singular)
atutoj (plural)
atutojn (accusative plural)

Borrowed from French atout. Equivalent to al + tuto.


lawful

en-adj

lawful (comparative more lawful, superlative most lawful)

more lawful (comparative)
most lawful (superlative)

From Middle English laweful, equivalent to law + -ful, conflated with Middle English leful, leeful, leveful (“according to law, lawful, pertaining to law”). See also leveful.

(roleplaying games) Of a character: having an alignment which makes them tend to follow the laws and conventions of society.


lawful

(roleplaying games) A character having a lawful alignment.


Go Fish

(card games) A children's card game in which players ask each other for cards of a particular rank, requiring them to "fish" in a pool of additional cards if they do not have the requested card.


gin rummy

What is your latest foible? / Is gin rummy more exquisite? / Is skiing more enjoyable?

1943, “I'm A Stranger Here Myself”, Ogden Nash (lyrics), Kurt Weill (music):

That's what I was thinking, but then I remembered he'd never been to sea, that I'd only started calling him The Captain because he wore a captain's hat during a game of gin rummy at his grandmother's apartment one time while she was out of town.

2013, Iris Smyles, Iris Has Free Time, Berkeley, CA: Counterpoint, →ISBN, page 118:

(card games) A card-holding game and variant of rummy.


FPS

first-person shooter
first-person shooter#English

(video games) Initialism of first-person shooter.


FPS

(poker) Initialism of fancy play syndrome, the act of playing in a reckless way.


FPS

Orthographic borrowing from English FPS.

(video games) FPS (initialism of "first-person shooter")


pinochle

en-noun

pinochle (countable and uncountable, plural pinochles)

Perhaps from German Binokel, French binocle (literally “pince-nez”), a related card game.

He remembered all—every pinochle game, every woman, every sad night.

1957, Jack Kerouac, On the Road, Viking Press, →OCLC:

(card games) A card game, similar to bezique.

(card games) A meld of the jack of diamonds and queen of spades in that card game.


vault

en-verb

vault (third-person singular simple present vaults, present participle vaulting, simple past and past participle vaulted)

vaults (present singular third-person)
vaulting (participle present)
vaulted (participle past)
vaulted (past)

From Middle English vaute, vowte, from Old French volte (modern voûte), from Vulgar Latin *volta < *volvita or *volŭta, a regularization of Latin volūta (compare modern volute (“spire”)), the past participle of volvere (“roll, turn”). Cognate with Spanish vuelta (“turn”) and Portuguese volta ("turn"). Doublet of volute.

In future updates, most likely in season six, more items will get vaulted.

2018 August 31, Steven Asarch, “'Fortnite' Developer Update 5.40: Storm Destruction, Revolver in Vault”, in Newsweek, New York, N.Y.: Newsweek Publishing LLC, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2018-10-03:

While vaulting some old content may turn off a few players, Bungie seems intent on bringing as many players under its tent as possible first.

2020 June 9, Gene Park, “Bungie is finally coming through with its old promise of a 10-year ’Destiny’ plan”, in The Washington Post, Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2020-07-09:

Blizzard will vault the gorgeous Hanamura and other Assault maps from Overwatch's competitive mode when 'Overwatch 2' arrives.

2021 February 19, Kris Holt, “Overwatch 2 Will Ditch The Widely Disliked Assault/2CP Maps”, in Forbes, New York, N.Y.: Forbes Media, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-02-02:

While some mistakes have resulted in Riot pulling Agents in the past, those changes were always temporary. If Riot is set on having only seven maps in the "Valorant," that likely means Split isn't coming back and more maps will get vaulted in the future.

2022 June 17, James Carr, “The Real Reason Valorant Is Dropping Its Oldest Map”, in SVG.com, archived from the original on 2022-11-28:

(video games) To remove (an item, character, etc.) from a video game in an update.


phantom

From Middle English fantome, fanteme, from Old French fantosme, fantasme, from Latin phantasma (“an apparition, specter; (in Late Latin also) appearance, image”), from Ancient Greek φάντασμα (phántasma, “phantasm, an appearance, image, apparition, specter”), from φαντάζω (phantázō, “I make visible”). Doublet of phantasm.

der

(bridge) A placeholder for a pair of players when there are an odd number of pairs playing.


cribbage

en-noun

cribbage (countable and uncountable, plural cribbages)

From crib + -age. Named from the "crib" consisting of certain cards laid aside by each player.

His solicitude for Sir Horace, his brother-in-law, was extreme, and he passed hours in the sick youth’s chamber, playing at cribbage, or dominos, or indulging the young baronet’s remarkable turn for cutting out trees, animals, or birds with tiny scissors on delicate paper.

1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter V, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 105:

How much more real this dream was than that they should go back to the house where the sleeping children lay and where Stanley and Beryl played cribbage.

1918, Katherine Mansfield, Prelude, Selected Stories, Oxford World's Classics paperback 2002, page 114

"No one remembers cribbage now," […]

1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth, hardback edition, page 31

(card games) A point-counting card game for two players, with variants for three or four players; the cribbage board used for scoring to 61 or 121 points in numerous small increments is characteristic.

A variety of pocket billiards that, like the card game, awards points for pairs that total 15. A player who pockets a ball of a particular number must then immediately pocket the companion ball that brings the number to 15.

A point scored in this variety of pocket billiards.


multiplayer

[ˌmɐɫtiˈpl̥eɪ̯ə]

[ˌmʌɫtiˈpl̥eɪ̯ɚ]

(games) Requiring or allowing multiple (or more than the usual two) players to play simultaneously

multiplayer

allowing multiple players to play simultaneously

massively multiplayer online role-playing game


multiplayer

multiplayer (countable and uncountable, plural multiplayers)

[ˌmɐɫtiˈpl̥eɪ̯ə]

[ˌmʌɫtiˈpl̥eɪ̯ɚ]

I just heard that the game will have multiplayer when it comes out!

(games, uncountable) The feature of a video game where multiple human players play simultaneously.


babka

babeczka (diminutive)
babka (nominative singular)
babki (nominative plural)
babki (genitive singular)
babek (genitive plural)
babce (dative singular)
babkom (dative plural)
babkę (accusative singular)
babki (accusative plural)
babką (instrumental singular)
babkami (instrumental plural)
babce (locative singular)
babkach (locative plural)
babko (singular vocative)
babki (plural vocative)

Inherited from Old Polish babka. By surface analysis, baba + -ka.

(obsolete) die used in a particular children's game


babka

Inherited from Old Polish ka. By surface analysis, baba + -ka.

Pyrus communis
Pyrus communis#Translingual