mechanic

From Middle English mekanyk (“mechanical”), from Old French mecanique, from Latin mechanicus (“of or belonging to machines or mechanics, inventive”), from Ancient Greek μηχανικός (mēkhanikós, “pertaining to machines or contrivance, mechanic, ingenious, inventive”), from μηχανή (mēkhanḗ, “a machine, contrivance”); see machine.

I can do other things beside burglarizing. I'm a first-class crap dealer, I'm a pretty good card mechanic, pretty good dice mechanic.

1969, Bruce Jackson, A Thief's Primer, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 91:

It was so obvious. I mean, all of Nicky's half-assed mechanics, they were real signal happy.

1995, Nicholas Pileggi, Martin Scorsese, Casino, spoken by Ace (Robert De Niro):

(gambling) A cheat who manipulates the cards or dice.


par

is-noun

par n (genitive singular pars, nominative plural pör)

pars (genitive singular)
pör (nominative plural)
par (indefinite nominative singular)
parið (definite nominative singular)
pör (indefinite nominative plural)
pörin (definite nominative plural)
par (accusative indefinite singular)
parið (accusative definite singular)
pör (accusative indefinite plural)
pörin (accusative definite plural)
pari (dative indefinite singular)
parinu (dative definite singular)
pörum (dative indefinite plural)
pörunum (dative definite plural)
pars (genitive indefinite singular)
parsins (definite genitive singular)
para (genitive indefinite plural)
paranna (definite genitive plural)

Borrowed from Middle Low German par, from Latin pār (“equal”).


par

pár (canonical inanimate masculine)
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pár (nominative singular)
pára (dual nominative)
pári (nominative plural)
pára (genitive singular)
párov (dual genitive)
párov (genitive plural)
páru (dative singular)
pároma (dative dual)
párom (dative plural)
pár (accusative singular)
pára (accusative dual)
páre (accusative plural)
páru (locative singular)
párih (dual locative)
párih (locative plural)
párom (instrumental singular)
pároma (dual instrumental)
pári (instrumental plural)


上手

/ʂɑŋ⁵¹ ʂoʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/sœːŋ²² sɐu̯³⁵/

/siɔŋ³³⁻¹¹ t͡sʰiu⁵³/

/siɔŋ³³⁻²¹ t͡sʰiu⁴¹/

/siɔŋ²²⁻²¹ t͡sʰiu⁵³/

/siɔŋ⁴¹⁻²² t͡sʰiu⁵⁵⁴/

/siaŋ²²⁻²¹ t͡sʰiu⁵³/

/zɑ̃²² sɤ⁴⁴/

/ʂɑŋ⁵¹ ʂoʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/sœːŋ²² sɐu̯³⁵/

/siɔŋ³³⁻¹¹ t͡sʰiu⁵³/

/siɔŋ³³⁻²¹ t͡sʰiu⁴¹/

/siɔŋ²²⁻²¹ t͡sʰiu⁵³/

/siɔŋ⁴¹⁻²² t͡sʰiu⁵⁵⁴/

/siaŋ²²⁻²¹ t͡sʰiu⁵³/

/zɑ̃²² sɤ⁴⁴/

/sœːŋ¹³ sɐu̯³⁵/

/t͡siũ³³⁻²¹ t͡sʰiu⁴¹/

/t͡siũ³³⁻¹¹ t͡sʰiu⁵³/

/t͡siũ²²⁻²¹ t͡sʰiu⁵³/

/t͡siɔ̃²²⁻²¹ t͡sʰiu⁵³/

/t͡siũ²² t͡sʰiu⁵⁵⁴/

/ʂɑŋ⁵¹ ʂoʊ̯²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/sœːŋ¹³ sɐu̯³⁵/

/t͡siũ³³⁻²¹ t͡sʰiu⁴¹/

/t͡siũ³³⁻¹¹ t͡sʰiu⁵³/

/t͡siũ²²⁻²¹ t͡sʰiu⁵³/

/t͡siɔ̃²²⁻²¹ t͡sʰiu⁵³/

/t͡siũ²² t͡sʰiu⁵⁵⁴/

(card games) player whose turn comes next


lottery

Borrowed from Italian lotteria, from the same root as Old English hlot (cognate with English lot). Compare French loterie (from Middle Dutch loterie). By surface analysis, lot + -ery.


fatty

en-adj

fatty (comparative fattier, superlative fattiest)

fattier (comparative)
fattiest (superlative)

From Middle English fatty, equivalent to fat + -y. Cognate with Saterland Frisian fattig (“fatty”), Dutch vettig (“fatty, greasy”), German Low German fettig (“fatty”), German fettig (“fatty”).

fatty tissues

fatty meats

Then in the case of excisions you have all kinds of secondary changes, pigmentary disturbances, modifications of the passions, alterations in the secretion of fatty tissue.

1896, H[erbert] G[eorge] Wells, “Chapter 14”, in The Island of Doctor Moreau (Heinemann’s Colonial Library of Popular Fiction; 52), London: William Heinemann, →OCLC; republished as The Island of Doctor Moreau: A Possibility, New York, N.Y.: Stone & Kimball, 1896, →OCLC:

Containing, composed of, or consisting of fat.

fatty liver

fatty pancreas

That means eating fruits and vegetables and cutting back on fatty foods.

2002, George W. Bush, Presidential Radio Address - June 22:

As we age, the major arteries of our bodies frequently become thickened with plaque, a fatty material with an oatmeal-like consistency that builds up along the inner lining of blood vessels.

2013 July-August, Stephen P. Lownie, David M. Pelz, “Stents to Prevent Stroke”, in American Scientist:

Sometimes, especially, containing excess fat.


exploit

From Old French esploit (noun), esploitier (verb).

(by extension, Internet, video games) An action or technique that takes advantage of the conditions of a video game to gain an advantage, or to disadvantage others.


צריח

צְרִיחַ (canonical)
ts'riyákh (romanization)


(chess notation) Indicator of an interesting move, but one that may not be optimal.


Turm

de-noun

Turm m (strong, genitive Turmes or Turms, plural Türme, diminutive Türmchen n or Türmlein n)

Turmes (genitive)
Turms (genitive)
Türme (plural)
Türmchen (diminutive neuter)
Türmlein (diminutive neuter)
Turm (nominative singular)
Türme (definite nominative plural)
Turmes (genitive singular)
Turms (genitive singular)
Türme (definite genitive plural)
Turm (dative singular)
Turme (dative singular)
Türmen (dative definite plural)
Turm (accusative singular)
Türme (accusative definite plural)

→ Hungarian: torony

→ Lower Sorbian: torm

→ Luxembourgish: Tuerm

→ Romanian: turn

From Middle High German turm, an East Central German variant of turn, from Old High German turn, from Old French *torn (cf. the diminutive tornele), variant of tor, from Latin turris. From the same Old French source are Dutch toren, Low German Toorn. The final -m is probably due to sporadic dissimilation; a connection with the Latin accusative turrim (as sometimes conjectured) is unlikely.

Die Türme sollen immer möglichst rasch miteinander in Verbindung, „verdoppelt” sein. Ein wesentlicher Nachteil des Verlustes der Rochade ist es, daß die Verbindung der Türme gestört ist.

2009, Siegbert Tarrasch, Das Schachspiel. Systematisches Lehrbuch für Anfänger und Geübte, Jens-Erik Rudolph Verlag, page 137:

(chess) rook (piece shaped like a castle tower)


IM

en-noun

IM (countable and uncountable, plural IMs)

International Master
International Master#English

(countable, chess) Initialism of International Master.


sweaty

en-adj

sweaty (comparative sweatier, superlative sweatiest)

sweatier (comparative)
sweatiest (superlative)

From Middle English swety, equivalent to sweat + -y.

Watch out for that sweaty team.

The YouTuber delved deeper into his goals, claiming: "I want to do sweaty, try hard FPS gaming from the toilet."

2022 August 3, Terry Oh, “YouTuber turns toilet into gaming PC for when duty calls”, in Dexerto:

(video games, slang) Extremely (and possibly inappropriately) obsessed with winning.

I stick to casual because ranked lobbies are way too sweaty.

The mode caters to competitive players by offering increased health and larger lobby sizes. However, some players argue the game mode is extremely "sweaty."

(video games, slang) Attracting many extremely competitive players.


high jinks

/ˈhaɪ ˌd͡ʒɪŋks/

Probably related to jink (“(verb) to make a quick evasive turn; to whirl about when dancing, to dance; (noun) a quick evasive turn”), probably originally onomatopoeic, expressing quick movement.

[T]he frolicsome company had begun to practise the ancient and now forgotten pastime of High Jinks. This game was played in several different ways. Most frequently the dice were thrown by the company, and those upon whom the lot fell were obliged to assume and maintain, for a time, a certain fictitious character, or to repeat a certain number of fescennine verses in a particular order. If they departed from the characters assigned, or if their memory proved treacherous in the repetition, they incurred forfeits, which were either compounded for by swallowing an additional bumper, or by paying a small sum towards the reckoning.

1815 February 24, [Walter Scott], chapter XV, in Guy Mannering; or, The Astrologer. […], volume II, Edinburgh: […] James Ballantyne and Co. for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, […]; and Archibald Constable and Co., […], →OCLC, pages 264–265:

(Scotland, games, historical) An old Scottish parlour game in which people were chosen, usually by throwing dice, to perform some humorous act or drink a large amount of an alcoholic beverage, with a forfeit if they were unable to do so.


technical

en-noun

technical (countable and uncountable, plural technicals)

From Late Latin technicus + -al, from Ancient Greek τεχνικός (tekhnikós), from τέχνη (tékhnē, “skill”).

(video games) A special move in certain fighting games that cancels out the effect of an opponent's attack.


karoo

eo-head

karoo (accusative singular karoon, plural karooj, accusative plural karoojn)

karoon (accusative singular)
karooj (plural)
karoojn (accusative plural)

(card games) The suit of diamonds, marked with the symbol ♦.


malý

malý (nominative singular)
malé (nominative plural)
malého (genitive singular)
malých (genitive plural)
malému (dative singular)
malým (dative plural)
malý (accusative singular)
malé (accusative plural)
malý (singular vocative)
malé (plural vocative)
malém (locative singular)
malých (locative plural)
malým (instrumental singular)
malými (instrumental plural)

Inherited from Old Czech malý, from Proto-Slavic *malъ.


pork

non-rhotic, without the horse–hoarse merger

(chess) A position in which a player's pieces are both pinned and forked at the same time.


nursery

en-noun

nursery (countable and uncountable, plural nurseries)

Carolina Stanley
Fritz von Uhde
Kunsthalle Hamburg
María Eugenia Vidal

From Middle English noricerie, norserye (“children's nursery; state of being fostered or nursed; education, upbringing”) [and other forms], from Old French norricerie, nourricerie, from norrice, nourrice (modern French nourrice (“childminder, nanny; wet nurse”)) + -erie (suffix forming feminine nouns). Norrice and nourrice are derived from Late Latin nūtrīcia (“wet nurse”), from Latin nūtrīcius (“that nurses or suckles; nourishing”), from nūtriō (“to breastfeed, nurse, suckle”), possibly ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)neh₂- (“to flow”). The English word may be analysed as nourice, nurse + -ery (suffix forming nouns meaning ‘place of’).

refn

From the collection of the Kunsthalle Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.

nb...

norceri, norcerie, norcery, norcerye, norisri, norisrie, norisserie, norisserye, norserie, norserye, norsheri, norshery, norysrye, nursery

де́тска я́сла

place where nursing or the raising of children is carried out

разса́дник

place where anything is fostered and growth promoted

(countable, billiards) Short for nursery cannon (“a carom shot involving balls that are very close together”).


cheat

→ Dutch: cheat

→ French: cheat

→ German: Cheat

Inherited from Middle English chete, an aphetic form of eschete (“the reversion of property to the state”), from Old French eschet, escheit, escheoit (“that which falls to one”), from the past participle of eschoir (“to fall”) (modern French échoir), from Vulgar Latin *excadēre, from Latin ex + cadere (“fall”).

(card games) A card game where the goal is to have no cards remaining in a hand, often by telling lies.

I've had a number of requests for a cheat for Turrican the first. Yes, there is a keypress built in […]

1992 January, Phil Howard, “Cheat Mode”, in Amstrad Action, number 76, page 32:

(video games) A hidden means of gaining an unfair advantage in a video game, often by entering a cheat code.


cheat

(video games) cheat (unfair advantage in a computer game)


cheat

(video games) cheat (hidden means of gaining an unfair advantage in a video game)


rare

From Middle English rare, from Old French rare, rere (“rare, uncommon”), from Latin rārus (“loose, spaced apart, thin, infrequent”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁reh₁- (“friable, thin”). Replaced native Middle English gesen (“rare, scarce”) (from Old English gǣsne), Middle English seld (“rare, uncommon”) (from Old English selden), and Middle English seldscene (“rare, rarely seen, infrequent”) (from Old English seldsēne).

cog

Most of the time, you do this by trading low-valued rares for more valuable ones or trading uncommons for rares. Other times it's trading cards that are in print for ones that are out of print, or low-value rares for good uncommons.

1995, George Baxter, Larry W. Smith, Mastering Magic Cards, page 116:


乒乓球

→ Bouyei: pinypangyqiuf

→ Zhuang: binghbanghgiuz

/pʰiŋ⁵⁵ pʰɑŋ⁵⁵ t͡ɕʰi̯oʊ̯³⁵/

ㄆㄧㄥ ㄆㄤ ㄑㄧㄡˊㄦ

/pʰiŋ⁵⁵ pʰɑŋ⁵⁵ t͡ɕʰi̯ɤʊ̯ɻʷ³⁵/

/pɪŋ⁵⁵ pɐm⁵⁵ kʰɐu̯²¹/

/pʰin⁴⁴ pʰɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³⁵ kʰiu¹¹/

/pʰiŋ¹¹ pʰa¹¹ t͡ɕʰiəu¹¹/

/pʰiŋ⁵⁵ pʰaŋ⁵⁵ kiu²¹/

/pʰin⁴⁴⁻²² pʰɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² kiu²⁴/

/pʰin³³ pʰɔŋ³³ kiu²⁴/

/pʰin⁴⁴⁻²² pʰɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² kiu¹³/

/piŋ³³⁻²³ poŋ⁵⁵⁻¹¹ kiu⁵⁵/

/pʰin⁵⁵ pʰã³³ d͡ʑiɤ²¹/

/pʰiŋ⁵⁵ pʰɑŋ⁵⁵ t͡ɕʰi̯oʊ̯³⁵/

/pʰiŋ⁵⁵ pʰɑŋ⁵⁵ t͡ɕʰi̯ɤʊ̯ɻʷ³⁵/

/pɪŋ⁵⁵ pɐm⁵⁵ kʰɐu̯²¹/

/pʰin⁴⁴ pʰɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³⁵ kʰiu¹¹/

/pʰiŋ¹¹ pʰa¹¹ t͡ɕʰiəu¹¹/

/pʰiŋ⁵⁵ pʰaŋ⁵⁵ kiu²¹/

/pʰin⁴⁴⁻²² pʰɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² kiu²⁴/

/pʰin³³ pʰɔŋ³³ kiu²⁴/

/pʰin⁴⁴⁻²² pʰɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² kiu¹³/

/piŋ³³⁻²³ poŋ⁵⁵⁻¹¹ kiu⁵⁵/

/pʰin⁵⁵ pʰã³³ d͡ʑiɤ²¹/


messenger

From Middle English messengere, messingere, messangere, from Old French messanger, a variant of Old French messagier (French messager), equivalent to message + -er. Doublet of messager.
Displaced native Old English boda (“messenger, envoy”) and ǣrendraca (“messenger, ambassador”).
For the replacement of -ager with -enger, -inger, -anger, compare passenger, harbinger, scavenger, porringer. This development may have been merely the addition of n, or it may have resulted due to contamination from other suffixes such as Middle English -ing and the rare Old French -ange, -enc, -inge, -inghe (“-ing”) for Old French -age (“-age”).

(bowling) A pin which travels across the pin deck to knock over another pin, usually for a strike.


blockade

From block + -ade, probably after Dutch blocquade (now blokkade) or German Blockade.

blockage

nearly synonymous, but not interchangeably; blockade usually denotes human agency

(chess) The act of preventing an opponent's pawn moving by placing a piece in front of it.


ala

Learned borrowing from Latin āla. Compare the inherited doublet á.

(chess) each player’s half of the chessboard


camp

en-verb

camp (third-person singular simple present camps, present participle camping, simple past and past participle camped)

camps (present singular third-person)
camping (participle present)
camped (participle past)
camped (past)

From Middle English kampe (“battlefield, open space”), from Old English camp (“battle, contest, battlefield, open space”), from Proto-West Germanic *kamp (“open field where military exercises are held, level plain”), from Latin campus (“open field, level plain”), from Proto-Indo-European *kh₂emp- (“to bend; crooked”). Reinforced circa 1520 by Middle French can, camp (“place where an army lodges temporarily”), from Old Northern French camp, from the same Latin (whence also French champ from Old French). Cognate with Old High German champf (“battle, struggle”) (German Kampf), Old Norse kapp (“battle”), Old High German hamf (“paralysed, maimed, mutilated”). Doublet of campus and champ.
The verb is from Middle English campen, from Old English campian, compian (“to fight, war against”), from Proto-West Germanic *kampōn (“to fight, do battle”), from *kamp (“field, battlefield, battle”), see above. Cognate with Dutch kampen, German kämpfen (“to struggle”), Danish kæmpe, Swedish kämpa.

inh

Some players like to camp next to a power-up's spawning point.

Yet, even without the three second rule, where your big man could camp underneath and take those delightful “garbage” shots, there was little or no pivot offense, no cutting off the bucket.

(intransitive, sports, video games) To stay in an advantageous location.

דָּגַר

to stay in an advantageous location in a video game

The easiest way to win on this map is to camp the double damage.

Go and camp the flag for the win.

(transitive, video games) To stay beside (something) to gain an advantage.

(transitive, video games) Short for corpse camp.


fine

en-adv

fine (comparative more fine, superlative most fine)

more fine (comparative)
most fine (superlative)

From Middle English fin, fyn, from Old French fin (“fine, minute, exact”), of obscure origin, but probably derived from Latin fīnīre (“to finish”) and/or fīnis (“boundary, limit, end”), with an abstract sense of "fine" or "thin" also arising in many Romance languages (compare Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian fino). Doublet of fino.

(pool, billiards) In a manner so that the driven ball strikes the object ball so far to one side as to be barely deflected, the object ball being driven to one side.


camper

first-person shooting
first-person shooter

(video games) A person who stays in one spot during a first-person shooting game, to guard an item etc.

kämppäri

video games: person who stays in one spot


camper

Unadapted borrowing from English camper.

(video games, Internet slang) camper (person who stays in one spot during a FPS game)


dubious

en-adj

dubious (comparative more dubious, superlative most dubious)

more dubious (comparative)
most dubious (superlative)

Etymology tree
Latin dubiusbor.
English dubious
From Latin dubius; like doubt, from Latin duo (cognate to English two), implying “two alternatives” (yes or no, true or false, etc.).

etymon

(chess, chiefly of an opening move) Generally considered imprecise or wrong, but not totally unplayable.


hanging

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

nonlemma

(chess, of a piece) Unprotected and exposed to capture.


말

First attested in the Yongbi eocheon'ga (龍飛御天歌 / 용비어천가), 1447, as Middle Korean 말〯 (Yale: mǎl). The rising pitch implies an earlier bisyllabic origin.

ko-etym-native

일본 말을 어디서 배웠어?


말

First attested in the Hunmong jahoe (訓蒙字會 / 훈몽자회), 1527, as Middle Korean ᄆᆞᆯ〮 (Yale: mól).

seaweed, specifically Potamogeton oxyphyllus.


heal

en-noun

heal (countable and uncountable, plural heals)

From Middle English helen, from Old English hǣlan (“to heal, cure, save, greet, salute”), from Proto-West Germanic *hailijan, from Proto-Germanic *hailijaną (“to heal, make whole, save”), from Proto-Indo-European *koyl- (“safe, unharmed”). Derived from the adjective at hand in whole.
Cognates
Cognate with Scots hale, hail (“to heal”), Saterland Frisian heila, heilen (“to heal”), West Frisian hielje, Dutch helen (“to heal”), German heilen (“to heal”), Danish hele, Swedish hela (“to heal”), and further Russian цели́ть (celítʹ, “to heal”), Polish calić (“to save”), Czech celit (“to heal”), Serbo-Croatian céliti (“to heal”).

der

Also, various interesting spells have been added—for instance, with the Orb spell, you can circle a character, firing offensive bolts or casting heals, and free up a mage-type to cast other spells or even melee.

2004, Computer Gaming World, volumes 234-237, page 81:

The following macro checks whether our current target is friendly and casts a heal on it if so; otherwise it casts the heal on the target's target […]

2009, Paul Emmerich, Beginning Lua with World of Warcraft Add-ons, page 351:

Synner, a priest walking by, sees her struggling and casts a heal on her.

2012, Constance Steinkuehler, Kurt Squire, Sasha Barab, Games, Learning, and Society:

(roleplaying games, countable) A spell or ability that restores hit points or removes a status ailment.


frame

→ Korean: 프레임 (peureim)

→ Swahili: fremu

From Middle English frame (“profit, benefit, advantage; a structure composed according to a plan”), from the verb (above) and also from Old Norse frami (“advantage, fame, bravery, efficiency, privilege, honor”); and frame (“a framework or structure of any kind”) which is of uncertain origin. The latter is usually regarded as a derivative of former; however, compare the rare Anglo-Norman and Old French frame, fraine (“frame, framework”), itself of uncertain origin, which might be a borrowing from the English, from the Norse, or even possibly ultimately from Frankish *hramu (“frame”) related to Dutch raam (“window frame”).

der

(snooker) A complete game of snooker, from break-off until all the balls (or as many as necessary to win) have been potted.

(bowling) A set of balls whose results are added together for scoring purposes. Usually two balls, but only one ball in the case of a strike, and three balls in the case of a strike or a spare in the last frame of a game.

In knockemdowns and bowls ten pins are used, the centre one being called the king, and the ball has to be grounded before it reaches the frame.

1878, John Henry Walsh, British Rural Sports, page 712:

(bowling) The complete set of pins to be knocked down in their starting configuration.

(electronics, film, animation, video games) A division of time on a multimedia timeline, such as 1/30 or 1/60 of a second.

When you play the game it will draw a set pattern depending on the frame you are on, with random additions to the pattern, to give a different orchard each time.

1982, Gilsoft International, Mongoose (video game instructions) [ftp://ftp.worldofspectrum.org/pub/sinclair/games-info/m/Mongoose.txt]

Hunchback looks very good, bright, cheerful and with a loud tune. I think it could have had a bit more sound during the frame though.

1984, "Hunchback" (video game review) in Crash (issue 2, pages 73-74)

The first frame, funnily enough, brings just the sort of puzzle so rare in the remainder of the adventure whereby either it gets solved or you're left wandering excluded from where it's all happening.

1985, "Ashkeron!" (video game review) in Crash (issue 18, page 104)

(dated, video games) A stage or location in a video game.


frame

nl-noun

frame n (plural frames, diminutive framepje n)

frames (plural)
framepje (diminutive neuter)


tabuleiro de xadrez

pt-noun

tabuleiro de xadrez m (plural tabuleiros de xadrez)

[tɐ.βuˈlɐj.ɾu ðɨ ʃɐˈðɾeʃ]

[tɐ.βuˈlɐj.ɾu ðɨ ʃɐˈðɾeʃ]

[tɐ.βuˈlej.ɾu ðɨ ʃɐˈðɾeʃ]

[tɐ.βuˈlej.ɾu ðɨ ʃɐˈðɾeʃ]

[tɐ.βuˈle.ɾu ðɨ ʃɐˈðɾeʃ]


realm

From Middle English rewme, realme, reaume, from Old French reaume, realme (“kingdom”), of unclear origins. A postulated *rēgālimen (“domain, kingdom”), Late Latin or Vulgar Latin cross of regimen with rēgālis is usually cited.

And, of this island realm, he and his companion were the undisputed sovereigns.

1874, Horatio Alger, “Chapter XXXI”, in Brave and Bold:

1913, Leslie Alexander Toke, Catholic Encyclopedia, "St. Dunstan",
Then seeing his life was threatened he fled the realm and crossed over to Flanders, […]

(formal or law) A territory or state, as ruled by a specific power, especially by a king.

(fantasy, roleplaying games) An otherworldly dimension or domain — magical, ethereal, or otherwise — usually ruled or created by a mystical character.


dozen

→ Bengali: ডজন (ḍojon)

⇒ Chinese: 打 (dá)

→ Vietnamese: tá

→ Hindi: दर्जन (darjan)

→ Fiji Hindi: darjan

desctree

⇒ Japanese: ダース (dāsu)
→ Korean: 다스 (daseu)

→ Manx: dussan

→ Maori: taihana

→ Scottish Gaelic: dusan

→ Swahili: dazeni

→ Welsh: dwsin

From Middle English dozen, dozein, doseyne, from Old French dozaine (“a group of twelve”) (Modern French douzaine), from doze (“twelve”) + -aine (“-ish”), from Latin duodecim (“twelve”) (from duo (“two”) + decem (“ten”)) + -ana (“-ish”).


眼睛

/jɛn²¹⁴ d͡ʑ̥iŋ⁴/

/jɛn²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕiŋ⁵⁵/

/iɛn⁵³ t͡ɕin⁵⁵/

/niæ̃⁵¹ t͡ɕiŋ²⁴/

/ŋaːn¹³ t͡sɪŋ⁵⁵/

/ŋan²¹³⁻²¹ t͡ɕiaŋ¹/

/nie⁵³ t͡ɕiŋ¹¹/

/ɡan⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡siɪŋ⁴⁴/

/ɡan⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ t͡siɪŋ³³/

/ŋaŋ⁵²⁻³⁵ t͡seŋ³³/

/ŋe²² t͡ɕin⁴⁴/

/jɛn²¹⁴ d͡ʑ̥iŋ⁴/

/jɛn²¹⁴⁻²¹ t͡ɕiŋ⁵⁵/

/iɛn⁵³ t͡ɕin⁵⁵/

/niæ̃⁵¹ t͡ɕiŋ²⁴/

/ŋaːn¹³ t͡sɪŋ⁵⁵/

/ŋan²¹³⁻²¹ t͡ɕiaŋ¹/

/nie⁵³ t͡ɕiŋ¹¹/

/ɡan⁵³⁻⁴⁴ t͡siɪŋ⁴⁴/

/ɡan⁵⁵⁴⁻²⁴ t͡siɪŋ³³/

/ŋaŋ⁵²⁻³⁵ t͡seŋ³³/

/ŋe²² t͡ɕin⁴⁴/

(mahjong) two identical tiles which are an essential part of a legal winning hand


väri

väri (nominative singular)
värit (nominative plural)
väri (accusative nominative singular)
värit (accusative nominative plural)
värin (accusative genitive singular)
värit (accusative genitive plural)
värin (genitive singular)
värien (genitive plural)
väriä (partitive singular)
värejä (partitive plural)
värissä (inessive singular)
väreissä (inessive plural)
väristä (elative singular)
väreistä (elative plural)
väriin (illative singular)
väreihin (illative plural)
värillä (adessive singular)
väreillä (adessive plural)
väriltä (ablative singular)
väreiltä (ablative plural)
värille (allative singular)
väreille (allative plural)
värinä (essive singular)
väreinä (essive plural)
väriksi (singular translative)
väreiksi (plural translative)
värittä (abessive singular)
väreittä (abessive plural)
värein (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
värini (nominative singular)
värini (nominative plural)
värini (accusative nominative singular)
värini (accusative nominative plural)
värini (accusative genitive singular)
värini (accusative genitive plural)
värini (genitive singular)
värieni (genitive plural)
väriäni (partitive singular)
värejäni (partitive plural)
värissäni (inessive singular)
väreissäni (inessive plural)
väristäni (elative singular)
väreistäni (elative plural)
väriini (illative singular)
väreihini (illative plural)
värilläni (adessive singular)
väreilläni (adessive plural)
väriltäni (ablative singular)
väreiltäni (ablative plural)
värilleni (allative singular)
väreilleni (allative plural)
värinäni (essive singular)
väreinäni (essive plural)
värikseni (singular translative)
väreikseni (plural translative)
värittäni (abessive singular)
väreittäni (abessive plural)
väreineni (comitative plural)
värisi (nominative singular)
värisi (nominative plural)
värisi (accusative nominative singular)
värisi (accusative nominative plural)
värisi (accusative genitive singular)
värisi (accusative genitive plural)
värisi (genitive singular)
väriesi (genitive plural)
väriäsi (partitive singular)
värejäsi (partitive plural)
värissäsi (inessive singular)
väreissäsi (inessive plural)
väristäsi (elative singular)
väreistäsi (elative plural)
väriisi (illative singular)
väreihisi (illative plural)
värilläsi (adessive singular)
väreilläsi (adessive plural)
väriltäsi (ablative singular)
väreiltäsi (ablative plural)
värillesi (allative singular)
väreillesi (allative plural)
värinäsi (essive singular)
väreinäsi (essive plural)
väriksesi (singular translative)
väreiksesi (plural translative)
värittäsi (abessive singular)
väreittäsi (abessive plural)
väreinesi (comitative plural)
värimme (nominative singular)
värimme (nominative plural)
värimme (accusative nominative singular)
värimme (accusative nominative plural)
värimme (accusative genitive singular)
värimme (accusative genitive plural)
värimme (genitive singular)
väriemme (genitive plural)
väriämme (partitive singular)
värejämme (partitive plural)
värissämme (inessive singular)
väreissämme (inessive plural)
väristämme (elative singular)
väreistämme (elative plural)
väriimme (illative singular)
väreihimme (illative plural)
värillämme (adessive singular)
väreillämme (adessive plural)
väriltämme (ablative singular)
väreiltämme (ablative plural)
värillemme (allative singular)
väreillemme (allative plural)
värinämme (essive singular)
väreinämme (essive plural)
väriksemme (singular translative)
väreiksemme (plural translative)
värittämme (abessive singular)
väreittämme (abessive plural)
väreinemme (comitative plural)
värinne (nominative singular)
värinne (nominative plural)
värinne (accusative nominative singular)
värinne (accusative nominative plural)
värinne (accusative genitive singular)
värinne (accusative genitive plural)
värinne (genitive singular)
värienne (genitive plural)
väriänne (partitive singular)
värejänne (partitive plural)
värissänne (inessive singular)
väreissänne (inessive plural)
väristänne (elative singular)
väreistänne (elative plural)
väriinne (illative singular)
väreihinne (illative plural)
värillänne (adessive singular)
väreillänne (adessive plural)
väriltänne (ablative singular)
väreiltänne (ablative plural)
värillenne (allative singular)
väreillenne (allative plural)
värinänne (essive singular)
väreinänne (essive plural)
väriksenne (singular translative)
väreiksenne (plural translative)
värittänne (abessive singular)
väreittänne (abessive plural)
väreinenne (comitative plural)
värinsä (nominative singular)
värinsä (nominative plural)
värinsä (accusative nominative singular)
värinsä (accusative nominative plural)
värinsä (accusative genitive singular)
värinsä (accusative genitive plural)
värinsä (genitive singular)
väriensä (genitive plural)
väriään (partitive singular)
väriänsä (partitive singular)
värejään (partitive plural)
värejänsä (partitive plural)
värissään (inessive singular)
värissänsä (inessive singular)
väreissään (inessive plural)
väreissänsä (inessive plural)
väristään (elative singular)
väristänsä (elative singular)
väreistään (elative plural)
väreistänsä (elative plural)
väriinsä (illative singular)
väreihinsä (illative plural)
värillään (adessive singular)
värillänsä (adessive singular)
väreillään (adessive plural)
väreillänsä (adessive plural)
väriltään (ablative singular)
väriltänsä (ablative singular)
väreiltään (ablative plural)
väreiltänsä (ablative plural)
värilleen (allative singular)
värillensä (allative singular)
väreilleen (allative plural)
väreillensä (allative plural)
värinään (essive singular)
värinänsä (essive singular)
väreinään (essive plural)
väreinänsä (essive plural)
värikseen (singular translative)
väriksensä (singular translative)
väreikseen (plural translative)
väreiksensä (plural translative)
värittään (abessive singular)
värittänsä (abessive singular)
väreittään (abessive plural)
väreittänsä (abessive plural)
väreineen (comitative plural)
väreinensä (comitative plural)

color (spectral composition of visible light)

color (particular set of the visible spectrum)

(heraldry) color (any of the standard dark tinctures used in heraldry)


slot

From Middle English slot, from Old French esclot, likely from Old Norse slóð (“track”). As a gambling machine, via clipping of slot machine. Compare sleuth. The scheduling (calendar) sense is by a metaphor whereby the time span is equated with the segment of a page or part of a device that represents it.

I walked past the poker tables and went straight to the slots.

(gambling, informal, especially in the plural) Clipping of slot machine, a game of chance played for money using a coin slot.


slot

From English slot, from Old French esclot, likely from Old Norse slóð (“track”). The sense of gambling game also comes from English, where it is a clipping of slot machine.

(gambling) Clipping of mesin slot (“slot, slot machine”)


tierce

From Old French tierce, from Latin tertia.

(card games) A sequence of three playing cards of the same suit. Tierce of ace, king and queen is called tierce-major.


saga

Borrowed from Old Norse saga, maybe through English saga.


madre

From Old Galician-Portuguese madre, from Latin māter, mātrem (“mother, matron”).


crab

en-noun

crab (countable and uncountable, plural crabs)

From Middle English crabbe, from Old English crabba (“crab; crayfish; cancer”), from Proto-West Germanic *krabbō, from Proto-Germanic *krabbô, from *krabbōną (“to creep, crawl”), from Proto-Indo-European *grobʰeh₂yéti (“scratch, claw at”), a metathesised o-grade of *gerbʰ-. More at carve.
Cognates
See also Dutch krab, Low German Krabb, Danish krabbe, Swedish krabba.
Further cognates with frequentative-infix are Saterland Frisian krabbelje (“to creep, crawl”), Dutch krabbelen (“to scratch”) and German krabbeln (“to crawl”). Possibly related to English creep and Swedish krypa (“to creep, crawl”) etc.

cog

(poker slang) A playing card with the rank of three.


flop

en-verb

flop (third-person singular simple present flops, present participle flopping, simple past and past participle flopped)

flops (present singular third-person)
flopping (participle present)
flopped (participle past)
flopped (past)

Recorded since 1602, probably a variant of flap with a duller, heavier sound

Both players flopped sets! Cards dealt on the flop: Q95. Player A's hole cards: 55 (making three of a kind: 555). Player B's hole cards: QQ (making three of a kind: QQQ).

(poker, transitive) To have (a hand) using the community cards dealt on the flop.


flop

The flop didn't help you but probably did help the other hands.

1996, John Patrick, John Patrick's Casino Poker: Professional Gambler's Guide to Winning:

Here are six tips to help you play successfully on the flop (the first three communal cards).

2003, Lou Krieger, Internet Poker: How to Play and Beat Online Poker Games:

The strength of your hand now has nothing to do with how strong it may have been before the flop.

2005, Henry Stephenson, Real Poker Night: Taking Your Home Game to a New Level:

(poker) The first three cards turned face-up by the dealer in a community card poker game.

floppi

poker: the first three cards dealt face up


pagan

(games, of marbles) to hit the adjacent marble with the target marble


place

en-noun

place (countable and uncountable, plural places)

Pijin: ples

Tok Pisin: ples

From Middle English place, conflation of Old English plæċe (“place, an open space, street”) and Old French place (“place, an open space”), both from Latin platea (“plaza, wide street”), from Ancient Greek πλατεῖα (plateîa), shortening of πλατεῖα ὁδός (plateîa hodós, “broad way”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleth₂- (“to spread”), extended form of *pleh₂- (“flat”). Displaced native Old English stōw, stede, and -ern. Compare also English pleck (“plot of ground”), West Frisian plak (“place, spot, location”), Dutch plek (“place, spot, patch”). Doublet of piatza, piazza, and plaza.

pleace

some English dialects: 18th–19th centuries; Scots: until the 17th century

all over the place like a mad woman's custard

lightning does not strike twice in the same place

lightning doesn't strike twice in the same place

lightning never strikes twice in the same place

there is a place and time for everything

there is a time and place for everything

there's a time and a place for everything

(chess, obsolete) A chess position; a square of the chessboard.


麒麟

麒麟 (canonical)
麒麟 (canonical)
kirin (romanization)

From Old Japanese, in turn from Middle Chinese 麒麟 (MC gi lin). First cited in Japanese to the Nihon Shoki of 720.
The giraffe sense was probably based on a superficial resemblance between certain depictions of the mythical beast and the patterning and body shape of the real animal: a tailed, hoofed, and horned quadruped with a vaguely leopard-like spot pattern. First cited in Japanese to a text from 1798.

麒麟, 騏驎: (shogi) the kirin, a piece in chūshōgi and larger shogi variants


下駄

English: geta

Korean: 게다 (geda)

Korean: 겨다 (gyeoda)

A surface analysis suggests a Japanese coinage of Middle Chinese-derived components, as a compound of 下 (ge, “lower; under”) + 駄 (ta, “loading; carrying; footwear”).
Historical usage suggests a shift from older term 足駄 (ashida, “clogs”, later, referring more specifically to “tall clogs” in contrast to the “short clogs” referenced by the term geta), itself deriving from 足 (ashi, “foot”) + 板 (ita, “board”) from the even older practice of wearing flat pieces of wood on one's feet when working in the paddies to keep from sinking into the mud, similar in principle to snowshoes. This latter footwear persisted in use into the 20th century as 田下駄 (ta-geta, literally “paddy geta”).
The historical derivation indicates that the 駄 character's “footwear” sense, which is specific to Japanese and is not found in Chinese sources, could have arisen from phonetic ateji (当て字) usage in the terms ashida and geta.

鼻緒

the thong that passes between the first and second toe of the wearer

足袋: traditional sock with a split between the first and second toe to allow for the 鼻緒

草履

traditional straw sandal without a heel strap, similar to flip-flops

草鞋

traditional straw sandal with a heel strap

(go) a stone placed not adjacent to the opponent's stone, but in such a way as to block the opponent's formation from escaping


delay

en-noun

delay (countable and uncountable, plural delays)

→ Portuguese: delay

From Middle English delaien, borrowed from Anglo-Norman delaier, Old French deslaier, from des- + Old French laier (“to leave”), a conflation of Old Frankish *lattjan ("to delay, hinder"; from Proto-Germanic *latjaną (“to delay, hinder, stall”), from Proto-Indo-European *leh₁d- (“to leave, leave behind”)), and Old Frankish *laibijan ("to leave"; from Proto-Germanic *laibijaną (“to leave, cause to stay”), from Proto-Indo-European *leyp- (“to remain, continue”)). Doublet of dally.
Akin to Old English latian (“to delay, hesitate”), Old English latu (“a delay, a hindrance”), Old English lǣfan (“to leave”). More at let (to hinder), late, leave.

cog

(chess) An amount of time provided on each move before one's clock starts to tick; a less common time control than increment.


twist

en-verb

twist (third-person singular simple present twists, present participle twisting, simple past and past participle twisted)

twists (present singular third-person)
twisting (participle present)
twisted (participle past)
twisted (past)

PIE word
 *dwóh₁
From Middle English twist, from Old English *twist, in compounds (e.g. mæsttwist (“a rope; stay”), candeltwist (“a wick”)), from Proto-Germanic *twistaz, a derivative of *twi- (“two-”) (compare also twine, between, betwixt).
Related to Saterland Frisian Twist (“discord”), Dutch twist (“twist; strife; discord”), German Low German Twist (“strife; discord”), German Zwist (“turmoil; strife; discord”), Swedish tvist (“quarrel; dispute”), Icelandic tvistur (“deuce”).
The verb is from Middle English twisten. Compare Dutch twisten, Danish tviste (“to dispute”), Swedish tvista (“to argue; dispute”).

cog

(card games) In the game of blackjack (pontoon or twenty-one), to be dealt another card.


nest

From Middle English nest, nist, nyst, from Old English nest, from Proto-West Germanic *nest, from Proto-Germanic *nestą, from Proto-Indo-European *nisdós (“nest”), literally "where [the bird] sits down", a compound of *ni (“down”) (whence also English nether) + the zero-grade of the root *sed- (“to sit”) (whence also English sit).

it's an ill bird that fouls its own nest

I was forced to change trumps when I found the ace, jack, and nine of diamonds in the nest.

(card games) A fixed number of cards in some bidding games awarded to the highest bidder allowing him to exchange any or all with cards in his hand.


mat

I used up all my mats cranking 90s and ended up getting one-pumped.

Using a Weapon Upgrade Bench, it's possible to upgrade a Common Shotgun, for example, all the way to Legendary provided you've harvested enough mats to do so.

2019 October 24, Christopher Groux, “'Fortnite' Weapon Upgrade Guide - Upgrade Bench Locations & More”, in Newsweek, New York, N.Y.: Newsweek Publishing LLC, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-30:

While there are game modes where you can build without any requirements, you'll need to harvest materials to build in normal Fortnite games. Mats is the shortened version of materials.

[2020 November 28, Gökhan Çakır, “Common Fortnite terms and their meanings”, in Dot Esports, archived from the original on 2023-05-21:

Fortnite added a new trap with the Armored Wall reinforcement for mats and one viral TikTok showed just how deadly the new item can be in a close fight.

2021 September 25, Alan Bernal, “Viral Fortnite TikTok trick shows how to use Armored Walls for easy kills”, in Dexerto, archived from the original on 2021-10-26:

The looper goes on laying more than a thousand mats in thirty seconds. He finally reaches his opponent, who is easily brought down with a shell of a shotgun and a burst of an SMG. Upon eliminating the opponent, he is ecstatic in celebration.

2022 July 16, Sarthak Chauhan, “Fortnite YouTuber using 1000 mats in less than 30 seconds shows exactly what not to do”, in Sportskeeda, archived from the original on 2023-05-29:

(video games, slang, chiefly Fortnite, in the plural) Clipping of material.


mat

mat (nominative singular)
maty (nominative plural)
matu (genitive singular)
matů (genitive plural)
matu (dative singular)
matům (dative plural)
mat (accusative singular)
maty (accusative plural)
mate (singular vocative)
maty (plural vocative)
matu (locative singular)
matech (locative plural)
matem (instrumental singular)
maty (instrumental plural)

Ultimately from Persian شاه مات (šâh mât, literally “the king is amazed”).


mat

English: mate

From Old French mat, a backformation from eschec mat (“checkmate”).

(chess) Said when the opponent's king is captured.


mat

mat (nominative singular)
maty (nominative plural)
mata (genitive singular)
matów (genitive plural)
matowi (dative singular)
matom (dative plural)
mata (accusative singular)
maty (accusative plural)
matem (instrumental singular)
matami (instrumental plural)
macie (locative singular)
matach (locative plural)
macie (singular vocative)
maty (plural vocative)

Borrowed from Arabic مَات (māt), from Persian شاه مات (šâh mât).


mancala

en-noun

mancala (countable and uncountable, plural mancalas)

Borrowed from Arabic مَنْقَلَة (manqala).

Mameh could sit on the floor to play board games like mancala with her friends, or roll out a mat and lounge about.

2015, Eka Kurniawan, translated by Labodalih Sembiring, Man Tiger, Verso, page 109:

(board games) Any of various board games, common throughout Africa and Asia, in which a move consists of emptying a pit and then its contents are sown one by one into ensuing pits.


mancala

bor+

Borrowed from Arabic مَنْقَلَة (manqala)

mancala (family of two-person board games)


bloom

en-noun

bloom (countable and uncountable, plural blooms)

From Middle English blome, from Old Norse blóm, from Proto-Germanic *blōmô (“flower”). Doublet of bloom (“spongy mass of metal”); see there for more.

Bloom does add a skill element, burst firing the weapon instead of holding the trigger down, but it's questionable if adding a skill element like that is the actual intent of bloom, because that’s a pretty lame and linear skill element to add, requiring people to tap the button instead of hold it down.

2018 February 21, “Bullet Bloom: An FPS Tragedy”, in CritPoints:

(video games) The increase in bullet spread over time as a gun's trigger is kept held.


rest

rest (countable and uncountable, plural rests)

From Middle English rest, reste, from Old English ræst, from Proto-West Germanic *rastu, from Proto-Germanic *rastō, from Proto-Indo-European *ros-, *res-, *erH- (“rest”). Cognate with West Frisian rêst (“rest”), Dutch rust (“rest”), German Rast (“rest”), Swedish rast (“rest”), Norwegian rest (“rest”), Icelandic röst (“rest”), Old Irish árus (“dwelling”), German Ruhe (“calm”), Albanian resht (“to stop, pause”), Welsh araf (“quiet, calm, gentle”), Lithuanian rovà (“calm”), Ancient Greek ἐρωή (erōḗ, “rest, respite”), Avestan 𐬀𐬌𐬭𐬌𐬨𐬈 (aⁱrime, “calm, peaceful”), Sanskrit रमते (rámate, “he stays still, calms down”), Gothic 𐍂𐌹𐌼𐌹𐍃 (rimis, “tranquility”). Related to roo.

rest

stick used to support the cue in snooker

Higgins can't quite reach the white with his cue, so he'll be using the rest.

(snooker, countable) A stick with a U-, V- or X-shaped head used to support the tip of a cue when the cue ball is otherwise out of reach.


ninja

Enter the Ninja
Eric Van Lustbader
Hokusai Manga
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
ninja

A romanized borrowing of Japanese 忍者 (ninja), popularized within Japanese by manga after World War II and in English by Eric Van Lustbader's 1980 novel The Ninja and the 1981 movie Enter the Ninja, of uncertain derivation but with an underlying sense of secret or hidden person.
The “Mongolian miner” sense arose from the supposed resemblance of the bowls used to wash ore with mercury to the shells of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
The Juggalo slang sense arose via influence from AAVE nigga.

I had TOTK running on my pc 2 weeks before it released on the switch and I'm still here. They can send the ninjas, I'm waiting.

Nintendo ninjas were inside the discord, watching. Now all the Yuzu devs have turned over all electronic devices, websites, logs...

2024 March 5, @HikikomoriMedia, Twitter:

(figurative) A person considered similarly skillful to the historical ninja, especially in covert or stealthy operation.

(video games, fandom slang, in the plural) A notional draconian arm of a corporation (originally Nintendo), tasked with dealing with individuals that infringe on its rights or do not comply with its regulations.


ninja

en-verb

ninja (third-person singular simple present ninjas, present participle ninjaing, simple past and past participle ninjaed or ninja'd)

ninjas (present singular third-person)
ninjaing (participle present)
ninjaed (participle past)
ninjaed (past)
ninja'd (participle past)
ninja'd (past)

That damn warrior ninja'd an epic-quality wand even though he can't even use it!

(online gaming slang) To claim an item through abuse of game mechanics.


מלכה

he-noun

מַלְכָּה • (malká) f (plural indefinite מְלָכוֹת, singular construct מַלְכַּת־, masculine counterpart מֶלֶךְ) [pattern: קַטְלָה]

מַלְכָּה (canonical)
malká (romanization)
מְלָכוֹת (indefinite plural)
מַלְכַּת־ (construct singular)
מֶלֶךְ (masculine)


meteor

From Middle French météore, from Old French, from Latin meteorum, from Ancient Greek μετέωρον (metéōron), from μετέωρος (metéōros, “raised from the ground, hanging, lofty”), from μετά (metá, “in the midst of, among, between”) (English meta) + ἀείρω (aeírō, “to lift, to heave, to raise up”).
The original sense of “atmospheric phenomenon” gave rise to meteorology, but the meaning of "meteor" is now restricted to extraterrestrial objects burning up as they enter the atmosphere.

(juggling) A prop similar to poi balls, in that it is twirled at the end of a cord or cable.


espasa

Inherited from Old Catalan (which also had a variant espaa), from Latin spatha (“sword”) (compare Occitan espasa, Spanish espada, French épée), from Ancient Greek σπάθη (spáthē).

(card games, in the plural) swords; a suit in the Spanish deck of cards


kite

en-verb

kite (third-person singular simple present kites, present participle kiting, simple past and past participle kited)

kites (present singular third-person)
kiting (participle present)
kited (participle past)
kited (past)

The noun is from Middle English kyte, kīte, kete (“a kite endemic to Europe, especially the red kite (Milvus milvus)”), from Old English cȳta (“kite; bittern”), from Proto-West Germanic *kūtijō, diminutive of Proto-Germanic *kūts (“bird of prey”), from Proto-Indo-European *gewH-d- (“to cry, screech”). The English word is cognate with Scots kyt, kyte (“kite; bird of prey”), Middle High German kiuzelīn, kützlīn (“owling”) (modern German Kauz (“owl”)). Possibly a doublet of coot.
Sense 3 (“lightweight toy”) is from the fact that it hovers in the air like the bird.
The verb is derived from the noun.

извисявам

to cause (something) to move upwards rapidly

To keep ahead of (an enemy) and repeatedly attack it from a distance, without exposing oneself to danger.

To attack (an enemy) or otherwise cause it to give chase, so as to lead it somewhere (like a kite is led on a string), for example into a trap or ambush or away from its comrades or something it was protecting.

If you're pulling or kiting a creature and it aggros an innocent passer-by, it's your fault and you should apologize.

2001, Juanita Jones, Everquest Player’s Guide: Prima’s Official Strategy Guide, Roseville, Calif.: Prima Games, →ISBN, page 70:

The wind kited us toward shore.

It was mere happenstance that the Weston meteor kited across the sky on December 14, 1807, the same day President [Thomas] Jefferson's Non-Importation Act, which restricted trade with Great Britain and France during the Napoleonic Wars, went into effect.

2010, Cathryn J. Prince, “The Misquote Heard Round the World”, in A Professor, A President, and A Meteor: The Birth of American Science, Amherst, N.Y.: Prometheus Books, →ISBN, page 130:

In the distance creatures on leathery wings kited across the sky, lofted by thermal winds.

2019, Amy J. Murphy, chapter 13, in Pat Dobie, editor, Allies and Enemies: Legacy (Allies and Enemies; book 4), [s.l.]: Amy J. Murphy:

(transitive, intransitive) To (cause to) glide in the manner of a kite (“bird”).


rank

en-noun

rank (countable and uncountable, plural ranks)

From Middle English rank (“line, row”), from Old French ranc, rang, reng (“line, row, rank”) (Modern French rang), from Frankish *hring (“ring”), from Proto-Germanic *hringaz (“something bent or curved”).
Akin to Old High German (h)ring, Old Frisian hring, Old English hring, hrincg (“ring”), Old Norse hringr (“ring, circle, queue, sword; ship”). Doublet of ring and rink.

cog

(chess) One of the eight horizontal lines of squares on a chessboard (i.e., those identified by a number).

хоризонта́ла

chess: one of the horizontal lines of squares


מלך

he-noun

מֶלֶךְ • (mélekh) m (plural indefinite מְלָכִים, singular construct מֶלֶךְ־, plural construct מַלְכֵי־, feminine counterpart מַלְכָּה, Biblical Hebrew pausal form מֶלֶךְ) [pattern: קֶטֶל]

מֶלֶךְ (canonical)
mélekh (romanization)
מְלָכִים (indefinite plural)
מֶלֶךְ־ (construct singular)
מַלְכֵי־ (construct plural)
מַלְכָּה (feminine)
form מֶלֶךְ (Biblical-Hebrew pausal)
מֶלֶךְ (indefinite singular)
מַלְכִּי (feminine first-person masculine possessed-form singular)
מַלְכֵּנוּ (feminine first-person masculine plural possessed-form)
הַמֶּלֶךְ (definite singular)
מַלְכְּךָ (masculine possessed-form second-person singular)
מַלְכֵּךְ (feminine possessed-form second-person singular)
מַלְכְּכֶם (masculine plural possessed-form second-person)
מַלְכְּכֶן (feminine plural possessed-form second-person)
מֶלֶךְ־ (construct singular)
מַלְכּוֹ (masculine possessed-form singular third-person)
מַלְכָּהּ (feminine possessed-form singular third-person)
מַלְכָּם (masculine plural possessed-form third-person)
מַלְכָּן (feminine plural possessed-form third-person)
מְלָכִים (indefinite plural)
מלכיי (feminine first-person masculine possessed-form singular)
מְלָכַי (feminine first-person masculine possessed-form singular)
מְלָכֵינוּ (feminine first-person masculine plural possessed-form)
הַמְּלָכִים (definite plural)
מְלָכֶיךָ (masculine possessed-form second-person singular)
מלכייך (feminine possessed-form second-person singular)
מְלָכַיִךְ (feminine possessed-form second-person singular)
מַלְכֵיכֶם (masculine plural possessed-form second-person)
מַלְכֵיכֶן (feminine plural possessed-form second-person)
מַלְכֵי־ (construct plural)
מְלָכָיו (masculine possessed-form singular third-person)
מְלָכֶיהָ (feminine possessed-form singular third-person)
מַלְכֵיהֶם (masculine plural possessed-form third-person)
מַלְכֵיהֶן (feminine plural possessed-form third-person)

Inherited from Proto-Semitic *malk-. Cognate to Aramaic מַלְכָּא (malkā, “king”), Arabic مَلِك (malik, “king”) and Akkadian 𒂷𒆪 (malku, “prince”).


מלך

yi-noun

מלך • (meylekh) m, plural מלכים (melokhem)

meylekh (romanization)
melokhem (romanization)


mangiare

it-verb

mangiàre (first-person singular present màngio, first-person singular past historic mangiài, past participle mangiàto, auxiliary avére)

mangiàre (canonical)
màngio (first-person present singular)
mangiài (first-person historic past singular)
mangiàto (participle past)
avére (auxiliary)
mangiàre (infinitive)
avére (auxiliary)
mangiàndo (gerund)
mangiànte (participle present)
mangiàto (participle past)
màngio (first-person indicative present singular)
màngi (indicative present second-person singular)
màngia (indicative present singular third-person)
mangiàmo (first-person indicative plural present)
mangiàte (indicative plural present second-person)
màngiano (indicative plural present third-person)
mangiàvo (first-person imperfect indicative singular)
mangiàvi (imperfect indicative second-person singular)
mangiàva (imperfect indicative singular third-person)
mangiavàmo (first-person imperfect indicative plural)
mangiavàte (imperfect indicative plural second-person)
mangiàvano (imperfect indicative plural third-person)
mangiài (first-person historic indicative past singular)
mangiàsti (historic indicative past second-person singular)
mangiò (historic indicative past singular third-person)
mangiàmmo (first-person historic indicative past plural)
mangiàste (historic indicative past plural second-person)
mangiàrono (historic indicative past plural third-person)
mangerò (first-person future indicative singular)
mangerài (future indicative second-person singular)
mangerà (future indicative singular third-person)
mangerémo (first-person future indicative plural)
mangeréte (future indicative plural second-person)
mangerànno (future indicative plural third-person)
mangerèi (conditional first-person present singular)
mangerésti (conditional present second-person singular)
mangerèbbe (conditional present singular third-person)
mangerébbe (conditional present singular third-person)
mangerémmo (conditional first-person plural present)
mangeréste (conditional plural present second-person)
mangerèbbero (conditional plural present third-person)
mangerébbero (conditional plural present third-person)
màngi (first-person present singular subjunctive)
màngi (present second-person singular subjunctive)
màngi (present singular subjunctive third-person)
mangiàmo (first-person plural present subjunctive)
mangiàte (plural present second-person subjunctive)
màngino (plural present subjunctive third-person)
mangiàssi (first-person imperfect singular subjunctive)
mangiàssi (imperfect second-person singular subjunctive)
mangiàsse (imperfect singular subjunctive third-person)
mangiàssimo (first-person imperfect plural subjunctive)
mangiàste (imperfect plural second-person subjunctive)
mangiàssero (imperfect plural subjunctive third-person)
màngia (imperative second-person singular)
màngi (formal imperative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
mangiàmo (first-person imperative plural)
mangiàte (imperative plural second-person)
màngino (formal imperative plural second-person-semantically third-person)
mangiàre (imperative negative second-person singular)
màngi (formal imperative negative second-person-semantically singular third-person)
mangiàmo (first-person imperative negative plural)
mangiàte (imperative negative plural second-person)
màngino (formal imperative negative plural second-person-semantically third-person)

→ Dalmatian: mančur, manciuor, manciur

→ Esperanto: manĝi
Ido: manjar

→ Macedonian: манџа (mandža)

→ Neapolitan: mangiare, magnare

Borrowed from Old French mangier, from Latin mandūcāre (“to chew, (coll.) eat”). Doublet of manducare, manicare, and manucare.

doublet

(transitive, figurative, card games, checkers, chess) to capture


geta

(go) A technique for capturing stones by enclosing them in a “net” preventing them from escaping in any direction.


rack

From Middle English rakke, rekke, from Middle Dutch rac, recke, rec (Dutch rek), see rekken.

(billiards, snooker) A hollow triangle used for aligning the balls at the start of a game.

(gambling) A plastic tray used for holding and moving chips.


rack

en-verb

rack (third-person singular simple present racks, present participle racking, simple past and past participle racked)

racks (present singular third-person)
racking (participle present)
racked (participle past)
racked (past)
rack (infinitive)

From Old English reċċan (“to stretch out, extend”).

inh

(billiards, snooker, pool) To put the balls into the triangular rack and set them in place on the table.


placer

a third-placer

(gambling, in combination) A horse, etc. that finishes in a particular place in a race.


porter

en-noun

porter (countable and uncountable, plural porters)

→ Irish: pórtar

From Middle English porter, portere, portare, borrowed from Anglo-Norman portour and Old French portier, from Late Latin portarius (“gatekeeper”), from Latin porta (“gate”).

(countable, bowling) An employee who clears and cleans tables and puts bowling balls away.


knuckle

From Middle English knokel (“finger joint”), from Old English cnucel (“the juncture of two bones; knuckle; joint”), from Proto-West Germanic *knukil, from Proto-Germanic *knukilaz (“knuckle, knot, bump”), as *knukô (“bone, joint”) + *-ilaz (diminutive suffix). Cognate with Dutch knokkel (“knuckle”), Low German Knökel (“knuckle”), German Knöchel (“ankle, knuckle”), Old Norse knykill.

affix

(sports, billiards, snooker, pool) The curved part of the cushion at the entrance to the pockets on a cue sports table.


mallet

From Middle English malet, maylet, from Old French mallet, maillet (“a wooden hammer, mallet”), diminutive of mal, mail (“a hammer”), from Latin malleus (“a hammer, mall, mallet”).

der

(games) A light beetle with a long handle used in playing croquet.


backsword

A stick with a basket handle, used in rustic amusements.


roll

en-verb

roll (third-person singular simple present rolls, present participle rolling, simple past and past participle rolled)

rolls (present singular third-person)
rolling (participle present)
rolled (participle past)
rolled (past)

From Middle English rollen, partly from Old French roller, roler, röeler, röoler, from Medieval Latin rotulāre (“to roll; to revolve”), from Latin rotula (“a little wheel”), diminutive of rota (“a wheel”); partly from Anglo-Latin rollāre, from the same ultimate source.

rol

to cause something to revolve by turning over and over

rol

to move, or cause to be moved, upon rollers or small wheels

If you roll doubles, you get an extra turn.

With two dice, you're more likely to roll seven than ten.

(dice games, intransitive) To throw dice.

(dice games, transitive) To roll dice such that they form a given pattern or total.

I'm gonna go and roll a new shaman tonight.

(roleplaying games) To create a new character in a role-playing game, especially by using dice to determine properties.

(computing) To generate a random number.

To throw dice.
To generate a random number.


tag

From Middle English tagge (“small piece hanging from a garment”), probably of North Germanic origin. Compare Norwegian tagg (“point; prong; barb; tag”), Swedish tagg (“thorn; prickle; tine”), Icelandic tág (“a willow-twig”). Compare also tack.

cog

The tag was applied at second for the final out.

(heading) Involving being tagged physically.

(baseball) An instance of touching the baserunner with the ball or the ball in a gloved hand to rule him "out."

polttaminen

baseball: instance of touching the baserunner with the ball to rule him "out"


tag

en-verb

tag (third-person singular simple present tags, present participle tagging, simple past and past participle tagged)

tags (present singular third-person)
tagging (participle present)
tagged (participle past)
tagged (past)

He really tagged that ball.

(transitive, baseball, colloquial) To hit the ball hard.


res

Can I get a res please?

(roleplaying games) Clipping of resurrection.


res

res (third-person singular simple present resses or reses, present participle ressing or resing, simple past and past participle ressed or resed)

resses (present singular third-person)
reses (present singular third-person)
ressing (participle present)
resing (participle present)
ressed (participle past)
ressed (past)
resed (participle past)
resed (past)

You have the skills, right? Res me please.

And the other death was falling in the Void of Armory; I also forgot to do this, so here's a quick video of me getting ressed by a Plague Doctor and then me, as a zombie, jumping into the Void.

2022 May 19, Simarded, 13:23 from the start, in Experiencing Death In Every Way In SCP Secret Laboratory - Part 2, archived from the original on 2023-02-11:

(roleplaying games) Clipping of resurrect.


res

Agora o rework está fazendo sentido, o res como habilidade funciona como habilidade e não como uma ultimate em forma de habilidade, com 70% mais lento pra dar o res em alguém ela pode ser pinada, levar stun, tem que ter oportunidade para ambos os lados.

2017 November 2, comment by Amido // NewsInside.org, “Overwatch recebe atualização que balanceia Mercy e Ana”, in IGN Brasil:

A atual vc apenas da Res atrás da parede, precisa ficar dividindo a cura para outras pessoas quando o outro healer morre, ou morre e ele troca pra DPS, ai vc e obrigado a pegar um suporte que aguente e se encaixe na comp.

2018 August 20, Aqua, “Vamos falar da Mercy 1.0?”, in Blizzard Forums:

Isso serve não só pra status em si, mas, por exemplo: pra você ressucitar alguém de Mercy. Tem res que não vale a pena você ir. Tipo assim, não vale a pena, não agrega nada pro jogo. Tem res que agrega.

2023 December 8, Nitrao, 19:05 from the start, in DANDO DICAS PARA DIAMANTE, player de SOUJORN - Coach do Nitrao, via YouTube:

(video games, Internet slang) res; Clipping of ressurreição.


oko

oko (nominative singular)
oka (nominative plural)
oči (dual nominative)
oka (genitive singular)
ok (genitive plural)
očí (dual genitive)
oku (dative singular)
okám (dative plural)
okům (dative plural)
očím (dative dual)
oko (accusative singular)
oka (accusative plural)
oči (accusative dual)
oko (singular vocative)
oka (plural vocative)
oči (dual vocative)
oku (locative singular)
okách (locative plural)
očích (dual locative)
okem (instrumental singular)
oky (instrumental plural)
očima (dual instrumental)

Inherited from Old Czech oko, from Proto-Slavic *oko.


oko

eo-head

oko (accusative singular okon, plural okoj, accusative plural okojn)

okon (accusative singular)
okoj (plural)
okojn (accusative plural)

la kera oko


oko

pl-noun

oko n (diminutive oczko, augmentative oczysko)

oczko (diminutive)
oczysko (augmentative)
oko (nominative singular)
oczy (nominative plural)
oka (genitive singular)
oczu (genitive plural)
ócz (genitive plural)
oczów (genitive plural)
oku (dative singular)
oczom (dative plural)
oko (accusative singular)
oczy (accusative plural)
okiem (instrumental singular)
oczami (instrumental plural)
oczyma (instrumental plural)
oku (locative singular)
oczach (locative plural)
oko (singular vocative)
oczy (plural vocative)

czego oczy nie widzą, tego sercu nie żal

źdźbło w oku bliźniego widzisz, a belki w swoim nie dostrzegasz

(Middle Polish, games) point on a game die


oko

oko (nominative singular)
oka (nominative plural)
oka (genitive singular)
ok (genitive plural)
oku (dative singular)
okom (dative plural)
oko (accusative singular)
oka (accusative plural)
okiem (instrumental singular)
okami (instrumental plural)
oku (locative singular)
okach (locative plural)
oko (singular vocative)
oka (plural vocative)


bard

(15th c.) from Scottish Gaelic bàrd, from Old Irish bard, from Proto-Celtic *bardos (“bard, poet”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʷerH- (“praise”), and reinforced by Latin bardus, borrowed from Celtic. Cognate with Latin grātus (“grateful, pleasant, delightful”), Sanskrit गृणाति (gṛṇāti, “calls, praises”), Old Church Slavonic жрьти (žrĭti, “to sacrifice”).

cog

I saw a bard work a bit of magic once. He brought up a volunteer from the audience, insulted him in rather colorful fashion, and then made the man forget the insults—and then he did the same trick all over again, twice more.”

2015 August 18, Tim Pratt, Pathfinder Tales: Reign of Stars, Macmillan, →ISBN, page 116:

"Having a bard would be even less helpful than having a second wizard, " John interjects.

2024 January 9, Kristy Boyce, Dungeons and Drama, Delacorte Press, →ISBN, page 66:

(roleplaying games, fantasy) A class of character that typically focuses on charisma, magic and supporting other players; a fantasy fiction character inspired by this archetype.


seal

en-verb

seal (third-person singular simple present seals, present participle sealing, simple past and past participle sealed)

seals (present singular third-person)
sealing (participle present)
sealed (participle past)
sealed (past)

From Middle English sele, from Anglo-Norman sëel, from Latin sigillum, a diminutive of signum (“sign”).
Doublet of sigil and sigillum.

After thinking for half an hour, the champion sealed his move.

(transitive, chess) To place a notation of one's next move in a sealed envelope to be opened after an adjournment.

sinetöidä

chess: to place a notation of one's next move in a sealed envelope


simulation

en-noun

simulation (countable and uncountable, plural simulations)

→ Japanese: シミュレーション (shimyurēshon)

First attested in 1340 as Middle English symulacioun, from Middle French simulation, from Old French simulation/simulacion, from Latin simulātiōnem, from simulō (“imitate”).
Morphologically simulate + -ion.

Some kids in the classroom will be playing simulations after school.

(video games) A video game designed to convey a more or less realistic experience, as of a sport or warfare.


tight

en-adj

tight (comparative tighter, superlative tightest)

tighter (comparative)
tightest (superlative)

baggy

firmly held together; of clothing or other material

slack

antonym(s) of “well-rehearsed and accurate”

From Middle English tight, tyght, tyȝt, tiht, variants of thight, thiht, from Old English *þiht, *þīht (attested in meteþiht), from Proto-West Germanic *þį̄ht(ī), from Proto-Germanic *þinhtaz, from Proto-Indo-European *tenkt- (“dense, thick, tight”), from Proto-Indo-European *ten- (“to stretch, pull”).
Cognate with Scots ticht, West Frisian ticht, Danish tæt, Icelandic þéttur (“dense”), Norwegian tett, Swedish tät, Dutch dicht (“dense”), German dicht (“dense”).
The current form with t- /t/ rather than etymologically-expected th- /θ/ arose in Middle English under the influence of the etymologically-unrelated verbs tighten and tight.

der

(poker) Of a player, who plays very few hands.

(poker) Using a strategy which involves playing very few hands.


transfer

en-noun

transfer (countable and uncountable, plural transfers)

/tɹɑːnsˈfɜː/

(bridge) A conventional bid which requests partner to bid the next available suit.


pontoon

Probably from vingt-un, an obsolete variant of vingt-et-un (“twenty-one”), from French.

(card games) A card game in which the object is to obtain cards whose value adds up to, or nearly to, 21 but not exceed it.


espada

→ Cebuano: espada

→ Japanese: スベタ

→ Tagalog: espada

Inherited from Old Spanish espada, from Latin spatha, from Ancient Greek σπάθη (spáthē). Doublet of espata.

(bullfighting) matador (person whose aim is to kill the bull in a bullfight)


espada

Borrowed from Spanish espada, from Latin spatha, from Ancient Greek σπάθη (spáthē). Compare Tausug ispara.


RP

RP (countable and uncountable, plural RPs)

(video games, ESRB) Initialism of rating pending.

(roleplaying games) Initialism of roleplay.


pocket

From Middle English pocket (“bag, sack”), from Anglo-Norman poket, Old Northern French poquet, poquete, diminutive of poque, poke (“bag, sack”) (compare modern Norman pouquette and modern French pochette from Old French pochete, from puche), from Frankish *pokā (“pouch”), from Proto-Germanic *pukkô, *pukô (“bag; pouch”), from Proto-Indo-European *bew- (“to blow, swell”). Doublet of pochette. Cognate with Middle Dutch poke, Alemannic German Pfoch (“purse, bag”), Old English pocca, pohha (“poke, pouch, pocket, bag”), Old Norse poki (“bag, pocket”). Compare the related poke (“sack or bag”). See also Modern French pochette and Latin bucca.

der

is that a gun in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me

(sports, billiards, pool, snooker) An indention and cavity with a net sack or similar structure (into which the balls are to be struck) at each corner and one centered on each side of a pool or snooker table.

գնդապարկ

billiards: net into which balls are struck

(bowling) The ideal point where the pins are hit by the bowling ball.


pocket

en-verb

pocket (third-person singular simple present pockets, present participle pocketing, simple past and past participle pocketed)

pockets (present singular third-person)
pocketing (participle present)
pocketed (participle past)
pocketed (past)

(billiards, snooker, pool) To cause a ball to go into one of the pockets of the table; to complete a shot.

вкарвам

to cause a ball to go into a pocket of a billiard table


pocket

a pocket pair of kings

(Texas hold'em poker) Referring to the two initial hole cards.


svelte

From Old Norse svelta, from Proto-Germanic *sweltaną. The noun is derived from the verb.

(card games) a two player card game wherein the goal is to "starve" the opponent of all their card


loot

→ Portuguese: loot

Borrowed from Hindi लूट (lūṭ, “booty”), either from Sanskrit लोप्त्र (loptra, “booty, stolen property”) or लुण्ट् (luṇṭ, “to rob, plunder”). The figurative meaning developed in American English in the 1920s, resulting in a generalized meaning by the 1950s.

poen

slang: money, especially illicitly acquired

Loot, plunder, pillage.

He always found the talismanic gathering-word Loot (plunder), a sufficient bond of union in any part of India.

1839, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, number 45, page 104:

Why, the race [of camp followers] is suckled on loot, fed on theft, swaddled in plunder, and weaned on robbery.

1860, William Howard Russell, My Diary in India in the Year 1858–9, volume II, page 340:

The horses in the archbishop's stables the murderers appropriated as their own fee,—or, as we should now say, as loot.

1862, Walter F. Hook, Lives of the Archbishops of Canterbury, volume II, page 505:

India went from being a world-famous exporter of finished cloth into an importer, went from having 27% of world trade to less than 2%. Meanwhile, colonialists like Sir Robert Clive bought their rotten boroughs in England on the proceeds of their loot in India while taking the Hindi word "loot" into their dictionaries as well as their habits.

2015, Shashi Tharoor, "Britain Does Owe Reparations", 00:02:22

The loot from the sack of Constantinople included the head of John the Baptist.

Synonym of booty, goods seized from an enemy by violence, particularly (historical) during the sacking of a town in war or (video games) after successful combat.


loot

en-verb

loot (third-person singular simple present loots, present participle looting, simple past and past participle looted)

loots (present singular third-person)
looting (participle present)
looted (participle past)
looted (past)

⇒ Portuguese: lootear

when the looting starts, the shooting starts

Gunganarian, the leader of the Chooars, continues his system of looting and murder

1833, The Asiatic Journal & Monthly Register for British India & Its Dependencies, page 66:

The plunderers are beaten whenever they are caught, but there is a good deal of burning and ‘looting’ as they call it.

On the 22nd ultimo the Boers made a raid into the District, and the result was that some 300 head of cattle and 600 sheep were looted.

1901 October 11, “District Reports”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record, volume 4, number 16, page 483:

We looted the temple and the orphanage, which turned most of the NPCs against us.

(transitive) Synonym of plunder, to seize by violence particularly during the capture of a city during war or (video games) after successful combat.


loot

pt-noun

loot m (usually uncountable, plural loots)

Etymology tree
Sanskrit लुण्ट् (luṇṭ)der.
Hindi लूट (lūṭ)bor.
English lootbor.
Portuguese loot
Unadapted borrowing from English loot. First attested in the early 2000's.

etymon

Loot (marrom): São os itens que podem ser pegos ao matar algum monstro.

2004 November 6, Locke Cole, “Localização e preços de itens em Rookgaard”, in Fóruns TibiaBR.com:

Cyberpunk tem uma variedade de armas, equipamentos e implantes gigantesca e, claro, pra equipar o que tem de melhor, o V vai precisar de uma grana violenta. Fazer loot e vender tudo é uma forma de fazer um troco.

2022 November 25, Eduardo Peixoto, 27:41 from the start, in DEBULHEI Cyberpunk 2077! Era PODRE, Ficou INCRÍVEL! 100+ Horas de Jogo (VIDEO SEM SPOILERS)😲😲, Curitiba: Aperte Start, via YouTube:

loot (goods seized from an enemy after successful combat)

O loot em questão é um pacote com um fato camuflado, uma picareta, uma mochila e o emote Freestylin.

2018 May 9, Jorge Loureiro Editor, “Mais loot exclusivo em Fortnite para os subscritores do Twitch Prime”, in Eurogamer.pt:

loot (any valuable thing received for free)


hacker

From Late Middle English hackere, hakker, hakkere (“one who cuts wood, woodchopper, woodcutter; (rare) tool for cutting wood”), from hakken, hacke (“to cut (something) with a chopping action, hack; to make a chopping action”) + -er(e) (suffix forming agent nouns). Hakken is derived from Old English *haccian (“to hack”), from Proto-West Germanic *hakkōn (“to chop, hack”), from Proto-Germanic *hakkōną (“to chop, hack”), from Proto-Indo-European *keg-, *keng- (“to be sharp; a handle; a hook; a peg”). The English word may be analysed as hack (“to chop or cut down in a rough manner”) + -er (suffix forming agent nouns).

hacker

one who uses a computer to gain unauthorized access to data stored in, or to carry out malicious attacks on, computer networks or computer systems

ха́кер

one who is expert at programming and solving problems with a computer

hakkuri

something that hacks; device or tool for hacking

PUBG Mobile has seen more than its fair share of hackers, with Tencent banning millions of players every week for cheating.

2021 June 27, Wasif Ahmed, “Tencent Banned over 3.8 Million Hackers in PUBG Mobile Last Week”, in Dot Esports, archived from the original on 2022-06-03:

Cheaters continue to plague Fortnite, as Tyler 'Ninja' Blevins and Jack 'CouRage' Dunlop have run into a hacker using fly-mode and aimbot, completely destroying and leaving both popular streamers speechless.

2022 January 11, Samed Kadirogullari, “Fortnite’s Flying Hackers Leave Ninja & CouRage Speechless”, in Screen Rant, archived from the original on 2022-01-11:

The server is certainly not for everyone. Gamers need to be prepared to deal with many hackers, trolls, and griefers. However, those looking for a unique Minecraft experience might just find it on 2b2t.

2022 March 9, Edward Hays, “10 best Minecraft servers to play in 2022”, in Sportskeeda, archived from the original on 2022-12-05:

While a patch was rolled out that's given Diamond, Master, and Predator competitors protection against DDoSing, players still want Respawn to do more about the abundance of hackers.

2023 January 30, Alex Garton, “Apex Legends Dev Confirms Even More Anti-cheat Improvements Coming in Season 16”, in Dexerto, archived from the original on 2023-01-30:

(computer security, telecommunications) One who uses a computer to gain unauthorized access to data stored in, or to carry out malicious attacks on, computer networks or computer systems.

(by extension, video games, slang) Someone who cheats or gains an unfair advantage in a video game by means of a disallowed modification to the game.

hakkeri

someone who cheats or gains an unfair advantage in a video game by means of a disallowed modification to the game


комар

bg-noun

кома́р • (komár) m

кома́р (canonical)
komár (romanization)
кома́р (indefinite singular)
кома́рят (definite singular subjective)
кома́ря (definite objective singular)

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish قمار (kumar) (Turkish kumar), from Arabic قِمَار (qimār).

bor+

(uncountable) gambling, game of chance/hazard


tavla

en-noun

tavla (usually uncountable, plural tavlas)

From Turkish tavla, from Italian tavola, from Latin tabula. Doublet of table and tabula.

1978, Past the tavern and hear the joggle of tavlas — Lawrence Durrell, in a 1977 interview published in Listener, 1978, and reprinted in Lawrence Durrell: Conversations, 1998 (see p.174)

(backgammon) A version of the board game backgammon played widely in Turkey and other countries of the region.


tavla

tàvla (canonical feminine)
та̀вла (Cyrillic)
tavla (nominative singular)
tavle (nominative plural)
tavle (genitive singular)
tavla (genitive plural)
tavli (dative singular)
tavlama (dative plural)
tavlu (accusative singular)
tavle (accusative plural)
tavlo (singular vocative)
tavle (plural vocative)
tavli (locative singular)
tavlama (locative plural)
tavlom (instrumental singular)
tavlama (instrumental plural)

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish طاوله (tavla), تاوله (tavla), from Italian tavola, from Latin tabula.

bor+

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tavla

head

tavla (definite accusative tavlayı, plural tavlalar)

tavlayı (accusative definite)
tavlalar (plural)
tavla (nominative singular)
tavlalar (nominative plural)
tavlayı (accusative definite singular)
tavlaları (accusative definite plural)
tavlaya (dative singular)
tavlalara (dative plural)
tavlada (locative singular)
tavlalarda (locative plural)
tavladan (ablative singular)
tavlalardan (ablative plural)
tavlanın (genitive singular)
tavlaların (genitive plural)

Inherited from Ottoman Turkish طبله (tabla), تاوله (tavla), from Italian tavola, from Latin tabula. Doublet of tablo.


trick

From Middle English trikke, from Old Northern French trique (related to Old French trichier (“to defraud, act dishonestly, conceal, deceive, cheat”); > modern French tricher), itself possibly from Middle High German trechen (“to launch a shot at, play a trick on”), or one of its derivatives (e.g. Middle High German ūftrechen (“to do something to someone, hurt someone”), vertrechen (“to conceal, get over on someone”), zuotrechen (“to obtain falsely or deceitfully, wangle, finagle”), etc.); yet the Old French verb is equally likely to be derived from Vulgar Latin *triccāre, from Late Latin tricāre, from Latin trīcor, trīcārī (“dodge, search for detours; haggle, quibble”).
The term has been connected to Middle Dutch treck, trec (“draw, line, desire, game move, cord, stratagem, ruse, trick”), from Middle Dutch trekken, trēken (“to pull, place, put, move”), from Old Dutch *trekken, *trekan (“to move, drag”), from Proto-Germanic *trakjaną, *trekaną (“to drag, scrape, pull”), from Proto-Indo-European *dreg- (“to drag, scrape”). If they are related, trick would be cognate with Low German trekken, Middle High German trecken, trechen, Danish trække, and Old Frisian trekka, Romanian truc and other Romance languages.
Compare track, treachery, trig, and trigger.

der

I was able to take the second trick with the queen of hearts.

And now (as oft in some distemper'd state) / On one nice trick depends the gen'ral fate!

1712, Alexander Pope, “Canto III”, in The Rape of the Lock, lines 93–94; republished in The Complete Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Boston, New York: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1902, page 94:

(card games) A sequence in which each player plays a card and a winning play is determined.


bouquet

Borrowed from French bouquet. Doublet of bosket.

(card games) The reserve of cards in the game of Flower Garden and variations.


hoodwink

en-noun

hoodwink (countable and uncountable, plural hoodwinks)

The verb is derived from hood (“head covering attached to a larger garment such as a jacket or cloak”) + wink (“to close one’s eyes”).
The noun is derived from the verb.

compound

Whereas the Mountaine Nymphs, and thoſe that doe frequent / The Fountaines, Fields, and Groues, with wondrous meriment, / By Moone-ſhine many a night, doe giue each other chaſe, / At Hood-winke, Barley-breake, at Tick, or Priſon-baſe, / With tricks, and antique toyes, that one another mocke, / That skip from Crag to Crag, and leape from Rocke to Rocke.

1622, Michael Drayton, “The Thirtieth Song”, in The Second Part, or A Continuance of Poly-Olbion from the Eighteenth Song. […], London: […] Augustine Mathewes for Iohn Marriott, Iohn Grismand, and Thomas Dewe, →OCLC, page 164:

(British, games, obsolete, uncountable) The game of blind man's buff.


perk

(video games) A bonus ability that a player character can acquire; a permanent power-up.


defend

en-verb

defend (third-person singular simple present defends, present participle defending, simple past and past participle defended)

defends (present singular third-person)
defending (participle present)
defended (participle past)
defended (past)

From Middle English defenden, from Old French defendre, deffendre (Modern French défendre), from Latin dēfendō (“to ward off”), from Proto-Italic *fendō, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰen-. Displaced native Old English bewerian.

(poker slang) To call a raise from the big blind.


tala

Uncertain, according to some from Latin tālea (“long and slender stick”), according to others from Arabic طَالِع (ṭāliʕ, “rising”).


material

en-noun

material (countable and uncountable, plural materials)

From Middle English material, from Late Latin māteriālis, from Latin māteria (“wood, material, substance”), from māter (“mother”). Displaced native Middle English andweorc, andwork (“material, matter”) (from Old English andweorc (“matter, substance, material”)). Doublet of materiel.

ncog

(chess) All of a player's pieces and pawns on the chessboard.


playing card

(card games) Any of the usually 52 rectangular pieces of card used to play numerous games, featuring either one to 10 pips or a picture and belonging of one of four suits.

speelkaart

one of usually 52 rectangular pieces of card


blitz

en-noun

blitz (countable and uncountable, plural blitzes)

Clipping of blitzkrieg, from German Blitzkrieg (literally “lightning war”).

der

What I had played was chess. Specially, I knocked out some 2,000 games of speed (or "blitz") chess in the two months leading up to the tournament. In fact, I played so much that I'm currently in the top half-percent of more than 1.3 million of blitz players at an online chess competition site.

2013 June 24, Mark Samuelian, “Speed Chess Changed My Brain”, in The Atlantic:

In order to avoid misunderstanding, I must note that I object to the attempts to displace normal chess with fast play, not rapid or blitz in general. I love them both, and, if I were to choose which to play, classic or rapid, I would choose rapid.

2015, Mark Dvoretsky, For Friends and Colleagues, volume 2 (Reflections on My Profession):

(uncountable, chess) Short for blitz chess.


limit

German: Limit

From Middle English limit, from Old French limit, from Latin līmes (“a cross-path or balk between fields, hence a boundary, boundary line or wall, any path or road, border, limit”). Displaced native Old English ġemǣre. Doublet of limes.


흑

(board games) A black stone used in the game of go.


bong

Borrowed from French bon (“voucher, ticket, coupon”). First attested in the 1930s.
Cognate with Norwegian Nynorsk bong (“totalizator receipt”).

cog

(gambling) A betting slip, a betting ticket; a slip on which a wager is recorded.


one-armed bandit

en-noun

one-armed bandit (plural one-armed bandits)

From one-armed (“having only one arm”) + bandit (“one who robs others in a lawless area, especially as part of a group; one who cheats others”), referring to the fact that the machine is operated by a single handle, and “steals” money from losing players.

compound

(originally US, gambling) A gaming machine having a long arm-like handle at one side that a player pulls down to make reels spin; the player wins money or tokens when certain combinations of symbols line up on these reels.


cheater

pt-noun

cheater m or f by sense (plural cheaters)

Unadapted borrowing from English cheater.

ubor

Os mais radicais afirmavam que Esmagossauro era um cheater, que hackeava em benefício próprio e que não tinha mérito algum em ser líder do ranking.

2013, Felipe Castilho, Ouro, Fogo e Megabytes, Gutenberg, →ISBN, page 80:

(video games) cheater (one who uses cheats in a video game)


guardian

→ Japanese: ガーディアン (gādian)

/ˈɡɑː.dɪ.ən/

From Middle English gardein, garden, (also wardein, > Modern English warden), from Old French guardein, from the verb guarder, of Germanic origin. Compare French gardien. Doublet of warden. By surface analysis, guard + -ian.

Secret weak points of bosses/guardians.

1993, Zach Meston, J. Douglas Arnold, Awesome Super Nintendo Secrets 2:

'if you tell me how to find the secret door in level three, I'll tell you how to defeat the end of level guardian'

(video games) A major or final enemy; boss.


level

en-noun

level (countable and uncountable, plural levels)

→ German: Level

→ Irish: leibhéal

desctree

→ Japanese: レベル (reberu)
→ Korean: 레벨 (rebel)

→ Welsh: lefel

From Middle English level, from Old French livel, liveau m, later nivel, niveau, from Latin libella f (“a balance, a level”), diminutive of libra f (“a balance, a level”); see libra, librate. Doublet of libella and niveau.
The verb is from Middle English levelen, from the noun.

It took me weeks to get to level seven. Watch out for the next level; the bad guys there are really overpowered.

(video games) One of several discrete segments of a game, generally increasing in difficulty and representing different locations in the game world.

My half-orc barbarian reached fifth level before he was squashed by a troll.

(roleplaying games, video games) A numeric value that quantifies a character, ability, or item's experience and power.

級

gaming: numeric value for something or someone's experience and power


level

en-verb

level (third-person singular simple present levels, present participle (US) leveling or levelling, simple past and past participle (US) leveled or levelled)

levels (present singular third-person)
leveling (US participle present)
levelling (participle present)
leveled (US participle past)
leveled (US past)
levelled (participle past)
levelled (past)

I levelled after defeating the dragon.

(roleplaying games, video games) To progress to the next level.


prime

composite

prime element of a mathematical structure

From Middle English prime, from Old French prime and its etymon, Latin prīmus (“first”), from earlier prīsmos < *prīsemos < Proto-Italic *priisemos, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *per- (“beyond, before”). Doublet of primo and primus.
The noun sense "apostrophe-like symbol" originates from the fact that the symbol ′ was originally a superscript Roman numeral one.

der

(card games) A four-card hand containing one card of each suit in the game of primero; the opposite of a flush in poker.

I'm threatening to build a prime here.

(backgammon) A series of consecutive blocks. A prime of six prevents the opponent's pieces from passing.


aggro

From a clipping of aggravation + -o (diminutive suffix), influenced by aggressive.

To reduce one player's aggro level, the other must build up his own.

2007, Bendik Stang, Morten A. Osterholt, Erik Hoftun, The Book of Games Volume 2: The Ultimate Reference on PC & Video Games, page 98:

What isn't so gimmicky is the Aggro System, where you draw fire onto yourself by acting aggressive, while your partner sneaks off blindsiding distracted enemies. Aggro depends on how big your current weapon is and how often you act aggressive.

We asked for an ability to trasnfer^([sic]) our aggro to another player—were told that could cause some abuse.

2010, Luke Cuddy, John Nordlinger, editors, World of Warcraft and Philosophy: Wrath of the Philosopher King, page 187:

(gaming) A measure of how belligerent a player is – a high value may inspire either avoidance or preemptive hostile action from enemies.

You just pulled aggro off the tank and wiped the raid.

(gaming) Hostile attention from an enemy that should target players with better defenses.


aggro

en-adj

aggro (comparative more aggro, superlative most aggro)

more aggro (comparative)
most aggro (superlative)

(gaming) Liable to attack without being attacked first (said of monsters).


aggro

en-verb

aggro (third-person singular simple present aggros or aggroes, present participle aggroing, simple past and past participle aggroed)

aggros (present singular third-person)
aggroes (present singular third-person)
aggroing (participle present)
aggroed (participle past)
aggroed (past)

They'll aggro on you if you get too close.

(gaming, intransitive) To become aggressive towards the player's character.

I aggroed the enderman by looking in its eyes, and it killed me.

(gaming, transitive) To cause (a non-player character) to become aggressive towards the player's character.


rider

writer (with flapping but without Canadian raising)

From Middle English ryder, ridere, from Late Old English rīdere (“rider, knight”). Compare Dutch rijder, German Reiter. By surface analysis, ride + -er.

kalorës

one who rides — see also cyclist, driver

fo-fhadhb

math: problem of extra difficulty added to another on an examination paper

(chess) A piece, such as the rook or bishop, which moves any distance in one direction, as long as no other piece is in the way.


수

Sino-Korean word from 手 (“hand, way”), from the Middle Korean reading 슈〮 (Yale: syú). However, the dependent noun is usually not written in hanja.
The word somewhat displaced the native dependent noun 줄 (jul, “fact, ability”).

한 수만 더 두면 외통수다.

최소한 영어는 내가 걔보단 한 수 위야.

At the very least, my skill in English is a notch better than hers.

Choesohan yeong'eo-neun nae-ga gyaebodan han su wi-ya.

(originally board games, also figurative) ability, talent, skill


contract

From Middle English, from Old French contract, from Latin contractum, past participle of contrahere (“to bring together, to bring about, to conclude a bargain”), from con- (“with, together”) + trahere (“to draw, to pull”).

(bridge) The declarer's undertaking to win the number of tricks bid with a stated suit as trump.


lag

en-noun

lag (countable and uncountable, plural lags)

→ Finnish: lagi

→ Swedish: lagg n

(snooker) A method of deciding which player is to start. Both players simultaneously strike a cue ball from the baulk line to hit the top cushion and rebound down the table; the player whose ball finishes closest to the baulk cushion wins.


lag

en-verb

lag (third-person singular simple present lags, present participle lagging, simple past and past participle lagged)

lags (present singular third-person)
lagging (participle present)
lagged (participle past)
lagged (past)

→ Swedish: lagga

My phone is starting to lag.

(computing, informal, video games) To respond slowly.


compile

compile (third-person singular simple present compiles, present participle compiling, simple past and past participle compiled)

compiles (present singular third-person)
compiling (participle present)
compiled (participle past)
compiled (past)

From Middle English compilen, from Old French compiler, from Latin compīlō (“to plunder”).

Steve Davis compiled a 147.

(transitive, snooker) To achieve (a break) by making a sequence of shots.


melee

en-noun

melee (countable and uncountable, plural melees)

Borrowed from French mêlée, from Old French meslee, feminine past participle of mesler (“to mix”), derived from Latin misceō (“mix”). Doublet of medley.

Honestly, a lot of what this episode did right had more to do with the scenes that surrounded the enormous melee than those hyper-edited clashes of swords.

2019 April 28, Alex McLevy, “Game Of Thrones Suffers the Fog of War in the Battle against the Dead (Newbies)”, in The A.V. Club, archived from the original on 2021-05-31:

The attack also afforded Helena to a front-seat view of literal air-to-air melee combat, as one Wildcat pilot of the Cactus Air Force, who was swooping in to help break up the attack, found himself out of machine-gun ammo; instead, he dropped his landing gear, positioned himself above the nearest bomber, and begun beating it to death, in midair, using his landing gear as clubs. After a bit of evasive action that the fighter easily kept up with, the repeated slamming broke something important, and the bomber spiralled down into the sea.

2021 March 10, Drachinifel, 5:50 from the start, in Guadalcanal Campaign - The Big Night Battle: Night 1 (IJN 3(?) : 2 USN), archived from the original on 2022-10-17:

(especially military, gaming) A battle fought at close range, (especially) one not involving ranged weapons; hand-to-hand combat; brawling.


melee

en-verb

melee (third-person singular simple present melees, present participle meleeing, simple past and past participle meleed)

melees (present singular third-person)
meleeing (participle present)
meleed (participle past)
meleed (past)

(video games, slang) To physically hit in close quarters, as opposed to shooting, blowing up, or other ranged means of damage. Often refers to the usage of a hand-to-hand weapon.


melee

A melee weapon is used to attack a target within 5 feet of you, whereas a ranged weapon is used to attack a target at a distance.

2018, Wizards of the Coast, Basic Rules for Dungeons and Dragons (D&D) Fifth Edition (5e):

(gaming) Of a weapon: used in close-range combat.


cinch

Compare senses at etymology 1 (a girth, a tight grip), perhaps suggesting the tactics used in the game; or perhaps from Spanish cinco (“five”), the five spots of the colour of the trump being important cards.

LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-cinch.wav

(card games) A variety of auction pitch in which a draw to improve the hand is added, and the five of trumps (called "right Pedro") and the five of the same colour (called "left Pedro", and ranking between the five and the four of trumps) are each worth five. Fifty-one points make a game.


cinch

cinch (third-person singular simple present cinches, present participle cinching, simple past and past participle cinched)

cinches (present singular third-person)
cinching (participle present)
cinched (participle past)
cinched (past)

(card games) In the game of cinch, to protect (a trick) by playing a higher trump than the five.


conquest

en-noun

conquest (countable and uncountable, plural conquests)

From Middle English conquest, from Old French conqueste (French conquête).

first-person shooter
first-person shooter

(video games) A competitive mode found in first-person shooter games in which competing teams (usually two) attempt to take over predetermined spawn points labeled by flags.

lipunvaltaus

competitive mode in first-person shooter games


bilk

Uncertain; perhaps a variant form of balk.

(cribbage) The spoiling of someone's score in the crib.


A cursive variation of ᾱ or ᾱᾱ, the abbreviation of Greek ἀνά (aná) used in recipes and prescriptions with the meaning "of each", and later extended to accounting. (Other explanations have that it is ā, an abbreviation of Latin ad (“to”), or French à (“to”).)

While I was dealing with the hounds, an orc tracker stumbled across @ from the east.

(video games) In roguelike games, the player character, conventionally represented by this symbol in character-based interfaces.


@ 5 個

@ 1時間で寝る

(slang, gaming) Alternative form of あと (ato, “remaining”)


convert

en-verb

convert (third-person singular simple present converts, present participle converting, simple past and past participle converted)

converts (present singular third-person)
converting (participle present)
converted (participle past)
converted (past)

[kʰə̥ɱˈvɜːt]

From Old French convertir, from Latin converto (“turn around”).

On the final day Marshall won a pawn as Black from another old rival, Hodges, but couldn't convert it and played on until a drawn king-and-pawn endgame.

1994, Andrew Soltis, Frank Marshall, United States Chess Champion, McFarland, Inc, →ISBN, page 262:

In a serious game, the same event often takes place: the attacking side, out of pure inertia, tries to convert an advantage which he or she no longer has, thus giving the defending side winning chances.

2012, Daniel Naroditsky, Mastering Complex Endgames, New In Chess, →ISBN, page 56:

Black has survived the attack and is better due to his active king! Many moves later, he converted.

2021, Frank Erwich, 1001 Chess Exercises for Advanced Club Players, New In Chess, →ISBN:

(transitive, intransitive, chess) To transform a material or positional advantage into a win.


calla

head

calla (present callar, preterite callade, supine callat, imperative calla)

callar (present)
callade (preterite)
callat (supine)
calla (imperative)
calla (active infinitive)
callas (infinitive passive)
callat (active supine)
callats (passive supine)
calla (active imperative)
callen (active archaic imperative plural)
callar (active indicative present)
callade (active indicative past)
callas (indicative passive present)
callades (indicative passive past)
calla (active archaic indicative plural present)
callade (active archaic indicative past plural)
callas (archaic indicative passive plural present)
callades (archaic indicative passive past plural)
calle (active dated present subjunctive)
callade (active dated past subjunctive)
calles (dated passive present subjunctive)
callades (dated passive past subjunctive)
callande (participle present)
callad (participle past)


chub

From fast pronunciation spelling of taob.


dammer

nl-noun

dammer m (plural dammers, diminutive dammertje n)

dammers (plural)
dammertje (diminutive neuter)


hazard

en-noun

hazard (countable and uncountable, plural hazards)

From Middle English hasard, from Old French hasart (“a game of dice”) (noun), hasarder (verb), from Arabic اَلزَّهْر (az-zahr, “the dice”). Compare Spanish azar, Portuguese azar.

(billiards) The act of potting a ball, whether the object ball (winning hazard) or the player's ball (losing hazard).


hazard

hazard (nominative singular)
hazardy (nominative plural)
hazardu (genitive singular)
hazardów (genitive plural)
hazardowi (dative singular)
hazardom (dative plural)
hazard (accusative singular)
hazardy (accusative plural)
hazardem (instrumental singular)
hazardami (instrumental plural)
hazardzie (locative singular)
hazardach (locative plural)
hazardzie (singular vocative)
hazardy (plural vocative)

Borrowed from French hasard, from Old French hasart, from Arabic اَلزَّهْر (az-zahr, “the dice”).


team

From Middle English tem, teem, teme, from Old English tēam (“child-bearing, offspring, brood, set of draught animals”), from Proto-West Germanic *taum, from Proto-Germanic *taumaz (“that which draws or pulls”), from Proto-Germanic *taugijaną, *tugōną, *teuhōną, *teuhaną (“to lead, bring, pull, draw”), from Proto-Indo-European *dewk- (“to pull, lead”). Cognate with Scots team, teem (“a chain, harness”), Saterland Frisian Toom (“bridle; breeding”), West Frisian team (“bridle, team”), Dutch toom (“bridle, reins, flock of birds”), German Low German Toom (“bridle”), German Zaum (“bridle”), Norwegian tømme (“bridle, rein”), Swedish töm (“leash, rein”). More at teem, tie, tow.

cog

(video games, colloquial) Used to propose that another player team up with the speaker.


flange

From dialectal English flange (“to project”), flanch (“a projection”), from Middle French flanche, from Old French flanche (“flank, side”), from Frankish *hlanka, from Proto-Germanic *hlankō (“bend, curve; side, flank”). See flank. As a term for a group of baboons, it was popularized in the comedy TV series Not the Nine O'Clock News.

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[The] enduring problem with the Gathering is that [players] can't affect anything that happens ... whatever they do, the LT just flange it back to the original plot line.

1998, Mr MI Pennington, “Can the Players be Trusted?”, in rec.games.frp.live-action (Usenet):

2007, "balor", Changing the metaphysics on Rule 7 https://web.archive.org/web/20071014193135/http://forums.rule7.co.uk/Topic28357-44-2.aspx
'Oh look, the amulet of flange has been activated, this means all Paladins now only have one heal per day instead of two.'

(roleplaying games) An ability in a role-playing game which is not commonly available, overpowered or arbitrarily imposed by the referees.