backward

en-adj

backward (comparative more backward, superlative most backward)

more backward (comparative)
most backward (superlative)

From Middle English bakwarde, abakward, equivalent to back (adverb) + -ward. Cognate with Old Frisian bekward (“backward”).

geri

often reduplicated - mainly for the senses implying "retreat"

(chess) Of a pawn, further behind than pawns of the same colour on adjacent files and unable to be moved forward safely.


return

en-verb

return (third-person singular simple present returns, present participle returning, simple past and past participle returned)

returns (present singular third-person)
returning (participle present)
returned (participle past)
returned (past)

From Middle English returnen, retornen, from Anglo-Norman returner, from Old French retourner, retorner, from Medieval Latin retornare (“to turn back”), from re- + tornare (“to turn”). Compare beturn.

der

If one players plays a trump, the others must return a trump.

(card games) To play a card as a result of another player's lead.

отговарям

card games: to play a card as a result of another player's lead


druid

Borrowed from French druide, from Old French, via Latin Druidae, from Gaulish *druwits, from Proto-Celtic *druwits (literally either “oak-knower” or “firm knower, great sage”), from either Proto-Indo-European *dóru (“tree”) or *drew- (“solid, firm, hard”) and *weyd- (“to see, to have knowledge”).
The earliest record of the term in Latin is by Julius Caesar in the first century B.C. in his De Bello Gallico. The native Celtic word for "druid" is first attested in Latin texts as druides (plural) and other texts also employ the form druidae (akin to the Greek form). Cognate with the later insular Celtic words, Old Irish druí (“druid, sorcerer”) and early Welsh dryw (“seer”).

(fantasy, roleplaying games) A priest or mage who uses magic based on nature or trees.


gambit

From Italian gambetto (“act of tripping; gambit”), from Italian gamba (“leg”), from Late Latin gamba.

bor

Her clever gambit gave her an advantage.

(chess) An opening in chess in which a minor piece or a pawn is sacrificed to gain an advantage.


gambit

en-verb

gambit (third-person singular simple present gambits, present participle gambiting, simple past and past participle gambited)

gambits (present singular third-person)
gambiting (participle present)
gambited (participle past)
gambited (past)

(chess, transitive) To sacrifice (a pawn or minor piece) to gain an advantage.


gambit

gambit (nominative singular)
gambity (nominative plural)
gambitu (genitive singular)
gambitów (genitive plural)
gambitowi (dative singular)
gambitom (dative plural)
gambit (accusative singular)
gambity (accusative plural)
gambitem (instrumental singular)
gambitami (instrumental plural)
gambicie (locative singular)
gambitach (locative plural)
gambicie (singular vocative)
gambity (plural vocative)

Borrowed from English gambit, from Italian gambetto, from gamba, from Late Latin gamba, from Ancient Greek καμπή (kampḗ), from Proto-Indo-European *kamp-.


gambit

nominative
gambit (singular)
gambity (plural)
genitive
gambitu (singular)
gambitov (plural)
dative
gambitom (plural)
accusative
locative
gambite (singular)
gambitoch (plural)
instrumental
gambitom (singular)
gambitmi (plural)


faro

Presumably an alteration of pharaon, itself a transcription of French pharaon, perhaps as a name for the King of Hearts.

(card games) A game of chance played by betting on the order in which certain cards will appear when taken singly from the top of the pack.


balk

From Middle English balke, from Old English balca, either from or influenced by Old Norse bálkr (“partition, ridge of land”), from Proto-Germanic *balkô. Cognate with Dutch balk (“balk”), German Balken (“balk”), Italian balcone (“balcony”).

der

(billiards) The area of the table lying behind the line from which the cue ball is initially shot, and from which a ball in hand must be played.

(snooker) The area of the table lying behind the baulk line.


hetman

hetman (nominative singular)
hetmany (nominative plural)
hetmana (genitive singular)
hetmanów (genitive plural)
hetmanowi (dative singular)
hetmanom (dative plural)
hetmana (accusative singular)
hetmany (accusative plural)
hetmanem (instrumental singular)
hetmanami (instrumental plural)
hetmanie (locative singular)
hetmanach (locative plural)
hetmanie (singular vocative)
hetmany (plural vocative)

Borrowed from Middle High German houbetman, heuptman, from houbet, heupt. Compare German Hauptmann. The e in hetman attests to a borrowing from an East Central German dialect, in which Middle High German -öu- gives -ē-.


chit

From chitty, from Hindi चिट्ठी (ciṭṭhī, “letter, note, written message”). Doublet of cure.

bor

1.4.3 Also on the board, but turned face down at the beginning of the game, are chits representing treasure sites and sounds and warnings of monsters that may arrive on the map. When characters end a turn in the hex, these chits are revealed. As characters move around the board, more and more of these chits will be revealed, letting the players know where monsters and treasures are to be found.

2005, Richard Hamblen, Teresa Michelsen, Stephen McKnight, The unofficial, updated Third Edition of the Magic Realm Rules:

(gaming) A smaller cardboard counter generally used not to directly represent something but for another, more transient, purpose such as tracking or randomization.


motif

From French motif (1848), with the meaning of "main idea or theme". Doublet of motive.

(chess) A basic element of a move in terms of why the piece moves and how it supports the fulfilment of a stipulation.


nob

Pronunciation spelling of knob.
Nobleman sense from white-nob (“white-head”) (18th century), referring to the powdered wigs used by those having or affecting upper middle-class status.

One for his nob.

(cribbage) A jack of the same suit as the card turned up by the dealer. (See also nibs.)


baton

(gymnastics, juggling) A rod twirled in a marching band's performance, in a gymnastic sport, or in juggling.


nitty

en-adj

nitty (comparative nittier or more nitty, superlative nittiest or most nitty)

nittier (comparative)
more nitty (comparative)
nittiest (superlative)
most nitty (superlative)

Over the past year and a half Isildur1 has captivated the poker community with his overly aggressive play and mesmerizing swings in the highest cash games online. His most intriguing characteristic isn’t his combativeness or his disregard for money; however, it’s his anonymity. […] [Phil] Hellmuth is far too nitty to be the face behind an online maniac such as Isildur1, he’s already rumored to be "#1_Lucky_One" and he’s clearly not spending copious amounts of time grinding high stakes in Sweden.

2011 January 7, Rich Ryan, “PokerNews Top Five: Isildur1 Dream List”, in PokerNews, archived from the original on 2016-09-01:

I recently played the following hand in a $2–$5 game in Las Vegas. I had a $1,000 stack. A nitty regular player opened from under the gun for $20 with a $1,000 stack. Another nitty player directly to my right called. This player had about $350 behind.

2012 July 29, Ed Miller, “Poker Strategy With Ed Miller – Bet Sizing Tells: Knowing what to Look For”, in Card Player, archived from the original on 2016-09-12:

Good2cu figures he can budget $50,000—around 25 percent of his net worth—for a new set of wheels, although a nittier recess of his poker mind knows that buying new is for suckers. Cars lose a significant portion of their value the moment you drive them off the lot.

2013, Jonathan Grotenstein, Storms Reback, chapter 30, in Ship It Holla Ballas!: How a Bunch of 19-year-old College Dropouts Used the Internet to Become Poker’s LOUDEST, CRAZIEST, and RICHEST Crew, New York, N.Y.: St. Martin's Press, →ISBN:

These days, even the nittiest regular players use continuation bets. But not every flop calls for a continuation bet from every hand.

2015 March 8, Ed Miller, “Poker Strategy With Ed Miller: Attacking Bad Continuation Bets: Miller Explains Why You Shouldn’t Continuation Bet Every Time”, in Card Player, archived from the original on 2017-04-01:

"Ladies Night" on Poker Night in America was far from nitty, so naturally the bets continued once the game wrapped up for the night.

2018 August 15, Pamela Maldonado, “Prop Bets: Lily Kiletto to Bench Press; Joey Ingram Makes Music Video”, in PokerNews, archived from the original on 2018-08-15:

(poker slang) Of a poker player: playing in an overly cautious and reactive manner.


kern

head

kern m (genitive singular kern, plural kernyn)

kern (genitive singular)
kernyn (plural)
kern (mutation mutation-radical)
chern (lenition mutation)
gern (eclipsis mutation)

From Middle Irish ceithern (“band or troop of soldiers or fighting men”).


shower

→ Hindi: शावर (śāvar)

→ Japanese: シャワー (shawā)

→ Korean: 샤워 (syawo)

→ Pashto: شاور (šāwar)

→ Persian: شاور (šâvar) (Dari)

→ Urdu: شاوَر (śāvar)

From Middle English shour, from Old English sċūr, from Proto-West Germanic *skūru, from Proto-Germanic *skūrō, probably from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱēwer- (“north; north wind; cold wind; rain shower”). Cognate with Dutch schoer, German Schauer, Old Norse skúr, Norwegian skur, Swedish skur.

der

See also shower (juggling) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

(juggling) A pattern where the juggler passes objects horizontally from one hand to the other around chest height, and upward over the juggler's head to return to the first hand.


hub

From earlier hubbe, which has the same immediate origin as hob. Hub was originally a dialectal word; its ultimate origin is unknown.

In a break with tradition, these levels are tackled in any order, with the next act chosen from a semi-random selection machine located in the game's hub area.

2014, Julian Hazeldine, Speedrun: The Unauthorised History of Sonic The Hedgehog, page 47:

(video games) An area in a video game from which individual levels are accessed.


hock

Coordinate term: soda

(card games) The last card turned up in the game of faro.


spader

→ Finnish: pata

→ Ingrian: pata

spader fyra, spaderfyra

spade, spades (one of the black suits in a deck of cards)


scrim

As a team, the players decided to focus less on streaming (a major source of income) and more on in-house scrims, VOD review and practice, hoping to become a better team.

2016, Blog of Legends, "The Gap hasn’t closed: Comparing the LCS and LCK at Worlds"

(online gaming) A practice match between one or more organized teams usually in preparation for a more competitive format, such as a tournament.


scrim

en-verb

scrim (third-person singular simple present scrims, present participle scrimming, simple past and past participle scrimmed)

scrims (present singular third-person)
scrimming (participle present)
scrimmed (participle past)
scrimmed (past)

Accusations of him drinking instead of scrimming with the team, not attending practices at all and playing guitar instead of scrimming surfaced.

2016, The Inquirer, The EE Blog: EternalEnvy Accuses Former Team, Team Secret, of Delayed Payments and Monetary Indiscretion:

(online gaming) To participate in a scrim.


jigger

→ Catalan: gigre

From jig + -er (agent suffix). Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary suggests a possible link to Old High German gīga (“fiddle”).

(golf, dated) A golf club used to play low flying shots to the putting green from short distances.


pew

(video games, childish) Representative of the sound made by the firing of a gun, particularly a blaster in science fiction.


cue

Variant of queue, from French queue (“tail”).

(sports, billiards, snooker, pool) A straight tapering stick used to hit the balls in various games.

կիյ

straight tapering rod used to impel the balls in games such as billiards, snooker, and pool


cue

cue (third-person singular simple present cues, present participle cueing or cuing, simple past and past participle cued)

cues (present singular third-person)
cueing (participle present)
cuing (participle present)
cued (participle past)
cued (past)

(sports, billiards, snooker, pool) To take aim on the cue ball with the cue and hit it.


punter

He had stolen 'trannies' (transistor radios) and hub caps from cars outside the main hotels in Glasgow, turning the collection into money through dealing with a 'punter' at Charing Cross.

2013, James Patrick, A Glasgow Gang Observed:

(Scotland) A person who trades with a gang but is not a gang member.


shill

Unknown; attested as verb 1914, as noun 1916. Perhaps an abbreviation of shillaber, attested 1913. The word entered English via carny, originally denoting a carnival worker who pretends to be a member of the audience in an attempt to elicit interest in an attraction.
Speculatively an extended form of German Schieber (“black marketeer, profiteer”) via *shi-la-ber.
There are some suggestions that it originates in the surname Shilaber or Shillibeer, especially George Shillibeer, but proposed origins are dubious as the word is first attested in North America in the 20th century, while proposed models are 19th century British.
American humorist Benjamin Penhallow Shillaber (1814–1890) was known to write under the name Mrs. Ruth Partington to lend credibility to some of his ideas. This is one more possible origin of the word, although there is no specific evidence supporting a connection.

der

There may even be a casino shill sitting adjacent to you. Normally, the casino shills are gorgeous women, and sometimes men, so enjoy the scenery.

2000, Dennis R. Harrison, Casino Gambling: Your Absolute, Quintessential, All You Wanted to Know ...:


winker

(tiddlywinks) Clipping of tiddlywinker (“a player of the game of tiddlywinks”).


skeet

en-noun

skeet (countable and uncountable, plural skeets)

Pseudo-archaic alteration of shoot, perhaps with reference to Old Norse skjóta; compare Scots skite (“to dart, to shoot”). The name for a form of trapshooting is attested from the 1920s, see quotations below. Senses related to ejaculation of semen likely derive from this, but compare also squirt, skite, or scoot. The word skeet is attested in reference to working class persons in US English from the 19th century, or the Newfoundland and Labrador regionalism may derive from other terms such as skite or skeeter; see quotation below.

(countable, poker) A hand consisting of a 9, a 5, a 2, and two other cards lower than 9.


mod

mod (countable and uncountable, plural mods)

Since Doom II, thousands of gamers had begun modifying id's products and making them available for free online. Doom fans would communicate entirely over the Internet to create mods of the game—often never even meeting in person or, for that matter, talking on the phone.

2003, David Kushner, Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture, Random House, →ISBN:

(video games) An end user-created package containing modifications to the look or behaviour of a video game.

Mod

video games: an end user-created package containing modifications for a video game


mod

en-verb

mod (third-person singular simple present mods, present participle modding, simple past and past participle modded)

mods (present singular third-person)
modding (participle present)
modded (participle past)
modded (past)

Learning Java is what got me into modding Minecraft.

(video games) To install or create a mod.


mod

Borrowed from English mod, from modification.

(video games) mod (end user-created modifications)


tat

(UK, gambling, slang, archaic) Alternative form of tatt (“a die, especially one that is loaded”)


pion

head

pion (plural pionne, diminutive pionnetjie)

From Dutch pion, from French pion, from Middle French pion, from Old French peon, from Late Latin pedō.

(chess) pawn; least valuable piece in chess


pion

nl-noun

pion m (plural pionnen, diminutive pionnetje n)

pionnen (plural)
pionnetje (diminutive neuter)

Afrikaans: pion

→ Indonesian: pion

Borrowed from French pion, from Middle French pion, from Old French peon, from Late Latin pedō (“footman”).


pion

Inherited from Old French peon, from Late Latin pedōnem, derived from Latin ped- (“foot”). Doublet of péon, which was borrowed from Spanish peón.


pion

→ Malay: pion

From Dutch pion (“pawn”), from French pion, from Old French peon, poon, paon, from Late Latin pedō, pedōnem (“footsoldier”), from Latin pēs, pedem (“foot”). Doublet of piung.


pion

ms-noun

pion (Jawi spelling ڤيون, plural pion-pion, informal 1st possessive pionku, 2nd possessive pionmu, 3rd possessive pionnya)

ڤيون (Jawi)
pion-pion (plural)
pionku (first-person informal possessive)
pionmu (possessive second-person)
pionnya (possessive third-person)

From Indonesian pion, from Dutch pion (“pawn”), from French pion, from Old French peon, poon, paon, from Late Latin pedō, pedōnem (“footsoldier”), from Latin pēs, pedem (“foot”). Doublet of piung.


pion

pionek (diminutive)
pion (nominative singular)
piony (nominative plural)
piona (genitive singular)
pionów (genitive plural)
pionowi (dative singular)
pionom (dative plural)
pion (accusative singular)
piony (accusative plural)
pionem (instrumental singular)
pionami (instrumental plural)
pionie (locative singular)
pionach (locative plural)
pionie (singular vocative)
piony (plural vocative)


pion

pioni (plural)
pion (accusative indefinite nominative singular)
pionul (accusative definite nominative singular)
pioni (accusative indefinite nominative plural)
pionii (accusative definite nominative plural)
pion (indefinite singular)
pionului (definite singular)
pioni (indefinite plural)
pionilor (definite plural)
pionule (singular vocative)
pionilor (plural vocative)


mica

Borrowed from Latin mīca. Compare the inherited doublet miga.

(playground games, uncountable, El Salvador) tag, it (children's chasing game)


calculation

en-noun

calculation (countable and uncountable, plural calculations)

/ˌkælkjəˈlæɪʃən/

From Middle English calculation, borrowed from Latin calculatio, calculationis.
Morphologically calculate + -ion

(chess, uncountable) The act or process of imagining sequences of potential moves and responses without actually moving the pieces.

reading

act or process of imagining sequences of moves


cater

From French quatre (“four”). Doublet of cuatro.

Cater is a very good caste.

1519, William Horman, Vulgaria, fol. 280v:

(card games, dice games, obsolete) The four of cards or dice.


sago

eo-head

sago (accusative singular sagon, plural sagoj, accusative plural sagojn)

sagon (accusative singular)
sagoj (plural)
sagojn (accusative plural)

From Latin sagitta. Doublet of Sagitario.


tapis

→ Nafaanra: tapis

Inherited from Middle French tapiz, from Vulgar Latin *tappetium, from Latin tapētem or from Byzantine Greek ταπήτιον (tapḗtion), from Ancient Greek τάπης (tápēs), from an Iranian source.

(poker) all-in (an instance of betting all of one's chips)


spar

head

spar c (singular definite sparen, plural indefinite sparer)

sparen (definite singular)
sparer (indefinite plural)
spar (indefinite nominative singular)
sparen (definite nominative singular)
sparer (indefinite nominative plural)
sparerne (definite nominative plural)
spars (genitive indefinite singular)
sparens (definite genitive singular)
sparers (genitive indefinite plural)
sparernes (definite genitive plural)

From Spanish espada (“sword”), from Latin spatha, from Ancient Greek σπάθη (spáthē, “blade”).

spade (one of the black suits in a deck of cards)


mort

en-noun

mort (countable and uncountable, plural morts)

From Middle English mort, from Old French mort (“death”).

(card games) A variety of dummy whist for three players.

(card games) The exposed or dummy hand of cards in the game of mort.


fatality

[feɪ̯ˈtʰælɪɾi]

From French fatalité. equivalent to fatal + -ity.

My first enchantment with computers came when I was about six years old, in Montreal in the early nineties, playing Mortal Kombat with my oldest brother. He told me about some “fatalities”—gruesome, witty ways of killing your opponent.

2023 November 13, James Somers, “A Coder Considers the Waning Days of the Craft”, in The New Yorker, →ISSN:

(video games) A move used to deliver a coup de grâce to a defeated opponent.


cavalier

fr-noun

cavalier m (plural cavaliers, feminine cavalière)

desctree

→ Ottoman Turkish: قاوالیه, قوالییه (kavalye)
Turkish: kavalye

→ Russian: кавале́р (kavalér)
→ Romanian: cavaler

Borrowed from Italian cavaliere, itself borrowed from Old Occitan cavalier, from Late Latin caballārius. Doublet of chevalier, which was inherited.


dolly

Welsh: doli

From doll + -y, from the given name Dorothy, originally applied either to a woman or female pet or to a children's toy, and expanded to refer to various types of contrivances or devices. The Online Etymology Dictionary, while considering the reason for applying it to such devices unobvious, compares how the names jack, jenny and jimmy are also applied to devices.

rattaat

term not specific to bridge construction

(gambling) A marker placed on the winning number by the dealer at roulette.


classical

en-noun

classical (countable and uncountable, plural classicals)

See classic § Etymology for history. By surface analysis, class + -ical = classic + -al

When I want to have fun I play blitz. When I want to go deeper and work on improving my game, I play classical and I try to do it in tournament settings.

2015 November 3, solskytz, “IM Greg Shahade: "Slow Chess should die a fast death"”, in Chess.com:

In early September, Niemann scored an extraordinary win against Carlsen during an in-person tournament in St. Louis, Missouri. Carlsen, the world’s highest-rated player since 2011, lost with the white pieces in the classical time format, a rare occurrence for the chess juggernaut.

2022 September 23, Brian Pempus, “Hans Niemann Eliminated, Magnus Carlsen A -350 Betting Favorite To Win Online Chess Event”, in Forbes:


crater

en-verb

crater (third-person singular simple present craters, present participle cratering, simple past and past participle cratered)

craters (present singular third-person)
cratering (participle present)
cratered (participle past)
cratered (past)

First coined 1613, from Latin crātēr (“basin”), from Ancient Greek κρᾱτήρ (krātḗr, “mixing-bowl, wassail-bowl”).


tas

az-noun

tas (definite accusative tası, plural taslar)

tası (accusative definite)
taslar (plural)
tas (nominative singular)
taslar (nominative plural)
tası (accusative definite singular)
tasları (accusative definite plural)
tasa (dative singular)
taslara (dative plural)
tasda (locative singular)
taslarda (locative plural)
tasdan (ablative singular)
taslardan (ablative plural)
tasın (definite genitive singular)
tasların (definite genitive plural)
tasım (first-person nominative possessed-single possessive singular)
taslarım (first-person nominative possessed-many possessive singular)
tasın (nominative possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
tasların (nominative possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
tası (nominative possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
tasları (nominative possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
tasımız (first-person nominative plural possessed-single possessive)
taslarımız (first-person nominative plural possessed-many possessive)
tasınız (nominative plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
taslarınız (nominative plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
tası (nominative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
tasları (nominative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
tasları (nominative plural possessed-many possessive third-person)
tasımı (accusative first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
taslarımı (accusative first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
tasını (accusative possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
taslarını (accusative possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
tasını (accusative possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
taslarını (accusative possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
tasımızı (accusative first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
taslarımızı (accusative first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
tasınızı (accusative plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
taslarınızı (accusative plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
tasını (accusative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
taslarını (accusative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
taslarını (accusative plural possessed-many possessive third-person)
tasıma (dative first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
taslarıma (dative first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
tasına (dative possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
taslarına (dative possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
tasına (dative possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
taslarına (dative possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
tasımıza (dative first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
taslarımıza (dative first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
tasınıza (dative plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
taslarınıza (dative plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
tasına (dative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
taslarına (dative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
taslarına (dative plural possessed-many possessive third-person)
tasımda (first-person locative possessed-single possessive singular)
taslarımda (first-person locative possessed-many possessive singular)
tasında (locative possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
taslarında (locative possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
tasında (locative possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
taslarında (locative possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
tasımızda (first-person locative plural possessed-single possessive)
taslarımızda (first-person locative plural possessed-many possessive)
tasınızda (locative plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
taslarınızda (locative plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
tasında (locative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
taslarında (locative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
taslarında (locative plural possessed-many possessive third-person)
tasımdan (ablative first-person possessed-single possessive singular)
taslarımdan (ablative first-person possessed-many possessive singular)
tasından (ablative possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
taslarından (ablative possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
tasından (ablative possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
taslarından (ablative possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
tasımızdan (ablative first-person plural possessed-single possessive)
taslarımızdan (ablative first-person plural possessed-many possessive)
tasınızdan (ablative plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
taslarınızdan (ablative plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
tasından (ablative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
taslarından (ablative plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
taslarından (ablative plural possessed-many possessive third-person)
tasımın (first-person genitive possessed-single possessive singular)
taslarımın (first-person genitive possessed-many possessive singular)
tasının (genitive possessed-single possessive second-person singular)
taslarının (genitive possessed-many possessive second-person singular)
tasının (genitive possessed-single possessive singular third-person)
taslarının (genitive possessed-many possessive singular third-person)
tasımızın (first-person genitive plural possessed-single possessive)
taslarımızın (first-person genitive plural possessed-many possessive)
tasınızın (genitive plural possessed-single possessive second-person)
taslarınızın (genitive plural possessed-many possessive second-person)
tasının (genitive plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
taslarının (genitive plural possessed-single possessive third-person)
taslarının (genitive plural possessed-many possessive third-person)

From Persian طاس (tâs), from Middle Persian tʾs (tās, “die, dice”).

(backgammon) match (a series of games, played until one player reaches three points, for example by winning three single games (oyuns), or a single game and a gammon (mars).)


gimp

Attested in US slang since the 1920s. Maybe influenced by, or cognate with limp.

(video games, slang, derogatory) A character or ability that is underpowered.


gimp

en-verb

gimp (third-person singular simple present gimps, present participle gimping, simple past and past participle gimped)

gimps (present singular third-person)
gimping (participle present)
gimped (participle past)
gimped (past)

(transitive, video games, slang) To make underpowered; to limit or restrict the useful effects of.


bluff

en-noun

bluff (countable and uncountable, plural bluffs)

→ Portuguese: bluff, (Brazil) blefe

Probably from Dutch bluffen (“to brag”), from Middle Dutch bluffen (“to make something swell; to bluff”); or from the Dutch noun bluf (“bragging”). Related to German verblüffen (“to stump, perplex”).

der

John’s bet was a bluff: he bet without even so much as a pair.

(poker, countable or uncountable) An attempt to represent oneself as holding a stronger hand than one actually does.

блъф

poker: attempt to represent yourself as holding a stronger hand than you do


bluff

en-verb

bluff (third-person singular simple present bluffs, present participle bluffing, simple past and past participle bluffed)

bluffs (present singular third-person)
bluffing (participle present)
bluffed (participle past)
bluffed (past)

John bluffed by betting without even a pair.

(poker) To make a bluff; to give the impression that one’s hand is stronger than it is.


bluff

desctree

→ Ottoman Turkish: بلوف (bluf)
Turkish: blöf

→ Polish: bluff


bluff

bluff (nominative singular)
bluffy (nominative plural)
bluffu (genitive singular)
bluffów (genitive plural)
bluffowi (dative singular)
bluffom (dative plural)
bluff (accusative singular)
bluffy (accusative plural)
bluffem (instrumental singular)
bluffami (instrumental plural)
bluffie (locative singular)
bluffach (locative plural)
bluffie (singular vocative)
bluffy (plural vocative)

Unadapted borrowing from French bluff, from English bluff.

(card games) Alternative spelling of blef


bluff

Unadapted borrowing from English bluff. According to SO attested since 1903.


deck

From Middle English dekke, borrowed from Middle Dutch dec (“roof, covering”), from Middle Dutch decken, from Old Dutch thecken, from Proto-West Germanic *þakkjan, from Proto-Germanic *þakjaną. Formed the same: German Decke (“covering, blanket”). Doublet of thatch and thack.

rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic

shuffle the chairs on the deck of the Titanic

(card games) A pack or set of playing cards.

(card games, by extension) A set of cards owned by each individual player and from which they draw when playing.


deck

en-verb

deck (third-person singular simple present decks, present participle decking, simple past and past participle decked)

decks (present singular third-person)
decking (participle present)
decked (participle past)
decked (past)

(collectible card games) To cause a player to run out of cards to draw, usually making them lose the game.


pica

(card games) spade (a playing card of the suit spades, picas)


hopscotch

No-one. Meade’s timberyard. Piled balks. Ruins and tenements. With careful tread he passed over a hopscotch court with its forgotten pickeystone.

1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 5]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:

(playground games) A child's game, in which a player, hopping on one foot, drives a stone from one compartment to another of a figure traced or scotched on the ground.


coronation

/kɒɹəˈneɪʃn̩/

/ˌkɔɹəˈneɪʃ(ə)n/

Cecil Beaton
Coronation of the Virgin
Elizabeth II

From Late Middle English coronacion, coronacioun (“crowning of a sovereign or his consort; powers conferred by this ceremony; crowning of the Virgin Mary; (figuratively) placing of a crown of thorns on Jesus; act of rewarding a person with eternal life, happiness, honour, etc.”) [and other forms], borrowed from Anglo-Norman coronacion and Old French coronacion, coronation, from Late Latin *corōnātiōnem, from Latin corōnō (“to coronate, crown (with a crown, garland, etc.)”) + -ātiōnem (suffix forming nouns relating to actions or their results). Corōnō is derived from corōna (“garland, wreath; crown”).

ref

From the collection of the Gallerie dell’Accademia in Venice, Italy.

nb...

corenacioun, corenacyon, coronacyon, coronacyone, coronatyown

der

Here, the huffing of Miss Bella and the loss of three of her men at a swoop, aggravated by the coronation of an opponent, led to that young lady's jerking the draught-board and pieces off the table: which her sister went down on her knees to pick up.

1864 May – 1865 November, Charles Dickens, “The R. Wilfer Family”, in Our Mutual Friend. […], volume I, London: Chapman and Hall, […], published 1865, →OCLC, book the first (The Cup and the Lip), page 27:

(board games, rare) In the game of checkers or draughts: the act of turning a checker into a king when it has reached the farthest row forward.

tammeksi tekeminen

in the game of checkers or draughts: the act of turning a checker into a king when it has reached the farthest row forward


incomplete

From Middle English incomplete, incompleet, from Late Latin incomplētus, from in- (“un-; not”) + complētus (“complete”), equivalent to in- (“not”) + complete.

(video games, Internet) A multiplayer game that is abandoned because one player disconnects.


invitation

en-noun

invitation (countable and uncountable, plural invitations)

From Middle English invitacioun, ynvytacioun, from Latin invītātio, reinforced by Middle French invitation. Displaced native Middle English lathinge from Old English laþung (see dialectal English lathing).

I assume also that opener would have shown no interest in slam by either bidding 4NT or 50 after the slam invitation of 46.

2001, Matthew Granovetter, Pamela Granovetter, The Best of Bridge Today Digest, page 113:

To any other invitation made by the captain, acceptance or refusal of the invitation is exclusively a question of points within the range advertised in the opening statement, and the invitation is always in the last called suit.

2011, Gerard Cohen, Bridge Is a Conversation: Part I: the Auction, page 71:

(bridge) A bid that tells one's partner that game or slam is likely if their hand is at the strong end of what they have indicated.


pug

(online gaming) Alternative letter-case form of PuG (“a group of players who are unknown to each other, grouped together to work toward a short-term goal such as completing a dungeon or a raid”)


foundation

foundation (countable and uncountable, plural foundations)

From Middle English foundacioun, fundacioun, from Old French fondacion, from Latin fundātiō (“founding, foundation”).

(card games) In solitaire or patience games, one of the piles of cards that the player attempts to build, usually holding all cards of a suit in ascending order.


hake

Borrowed from Spanish jaque, from Old Spanish xaque, from Arabic شاه (šāh, “shah; king chess piece”), from Middle Persian 𐭬𐭫𐭪𐭠 (mlkʾ /šāh/, “king”). Doublet of tsek, tseke, and tses.


poussette

(card games) A method of cheating in card games, whereby a player surreptitiously changes his or her stake after the cards are dealt.


knave

From Middle English knave, knafe, from Old English cnafa (“child, boy, youth; servant”), from Proto-West Germanic *knabō. Cognate to Dutch knaap and German Knabe.

inh

(card games) A playing card marked with the figure of a servant or soldier; a jack.


molly

Brimstone, Viper, and Phoenix's mollies were adjusted during a closed beta patch, changing the damage tick speed so players couldn't avoid damage by bunny hopping. Killjoy's Nanoswarm will likely follow suit.

2020 August 5, Andreas Stavropoulos, “Hiko on Killjoy's Nanoswarm: "I think they do a lot of damage too fast and I think it's hard to even tell you're in a molly sometimes"”, in Dot Esports, archived from the original on 2022-08-11:

(video games, slang) A Molotov cocktail.


grand

is-noun

grand n (genitive singular grands, nominative plural grönd)

grands (genitive singular)
grönd (nominative plural)
grand (indefinite nominative singular)
grandið (definite nominative singular)
grönd (indefinite nominative plural)
gröndin (definite nominative plural)
grand (accusative indefinite singular)
grandið (accusative definite singular)
grönd (accusative indefinite plural)
gröndin (accusative definite plural)
grandi (dative indefinite singular)
grandinu (dative definite singular)
gröndum (dative indefinite plural)
gröndunum (dative definite plural)
grands (genitive indefinite singular)
grandsins (definite genitive singular)
granda (genitive indefinite plural)
grandanna (definite genitive plural)

(card games) absence of trump cards/suits; no-trump


piquet

Maria my love you look grave. Come, you sit down to Piquet with Mr. Surface.

1777, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The School for Scandal, II.ii:

The two wedding parties met constantly in each other's apartments. After two or three nights the gentlemen of an evening had a little piquet, as their wives sate and chatted apart.

1847 January – 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, chapter 22, in Vanity Fair […], London: Bradbury and Evans […], published 1848, →OCLC:

They would kick off their shoes and play piquet by candle-light.

We shall together challenge the Chevalier de Belleroche to piquet; and, while we are winning money from him, we shall have the even greater pleasure of hearing you sing with your charming teacher, to whom I shall propose it.

2007, Helen Constantine, translated by Choderlos de Laclos, Dangerous Liaisons, Penguin, page 35:

(card games) A game of cards for two people, with thirty-two cards, all the deuces, threes, fours, fives, and sixes being set aside.


ruff

From Old French roffle, rouffle (earlier romfle, ronfle), or from Italian ronfa (“card game similar to whist”); these words are possibly from Old French triomphe (“a triumph, victory”), Italian trionfo (“triumph; trump card”), from Latin triumphus (“hymn to Bacchus; celebration, triumph”), ultimately from Ancient Greek θρῐ́ᾰμβος (thríambos, “hymn to Dionysius, thriambus”). The verb is derived from the noun. Doublet of trump.

der

[W]hat ſhall wee haue a game at Trumpe or Ruffe to driue away the time, how ſay you?

1595, G[eorge] P[eele], The Old Wiues Tale. A Pleasant Conceited Comedie, Played by the Queenes Maiesties Players, London: Printed at London by Iohn Danter, and are to be sold by Raph Hancocke, and Iohn Hardie, →OCLC; reprinted as [Walter Wilson Greg], editor, The Old Wives’ Tale: 1595 (The Malone Society Reprints; 7), [Oxford]: Printed for the Malone Society by Horace Hart M.A. at the Oxford University Press, 1908, →OCLC, 85–87:

(obsolete) A game similar to whist and its predecessor.


foul

→ Cantonese: foul

→ Polish: faul

→ Russian: фол (fol)

→ Turkish: faul

Inherited from Middle English foulen, fulen, from Old English fūlian (“to become foul; rot; decay”), from Proto-West Germanic *fūlēn, from Proto-Germanic *fūlāną (“to rot; decay”).

der

(bowling) A (usually accidental) contact between a bowler and the lane before the bowler has released the ball.


fortress

Early 14 c., from Old French forteresce, forteresse, forterece (“strong place, fortification”), variant of fortelesse, from Medieval Latin fortalitia, from Latin fortis (“strong”) (see fort) + -itia, added to adjectives to form nouns of quality or condition. French -ess, from Latin -itia is also in words such as duress, largesse and riches. For change of medial -l- to -r- in Old French, compare orne (“elm”) from ulmus; chartre from cartula and chapitre from capitulum. First attested in the 12th century.

(chess) A position that, if obtained by the weaker side, will prevent penetration by the opposing side, generally achieving a draw.


drab

drab (nominative singular)
draby (nominative plural)
draba (genitive singular)
drabów (genitive plural)
drabowi (dative singular)
drabom (dative plural)
draba (accusative singular)
draby (accusative plural)
drabem (instrumental singular)
drabami (instrumental plural)
drabie (locative singular)
drabach (locative plural)
drabie (singular vocative)
draby (plural vocative)

Borrowed from Old Czech dráb, from Middle High German drabant, trabant. Doublet of drabant and trabant.


represent

en-verb

represent (third-person singular simple present represents, present participle representing, simple past and past participle represented)

represents (present singular third-person)
representing (participle present)
represented (participle past)
represented (past)

/ˌɹɛp.ɹɪˈzɛnt/

From Old French représenter, from Latin repraesentō.

Richard was holding the nuts, but he was trying to represent two-pair to get the other players to bet.

(poker, transitive) To play as if holding (a set of cards); to play as if having made (a hand).


ree

head

ree m (genitive singular ree, plural reeghyn or reeaghyn)

ree (genitive singular)
reeghyn (plural)
reeaghyn (plural)

From Old Irish rí, from Proto-Celtic *rīxs, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rḗǵs (“ruler, king”).

inh

Jean eh cooie da ree.

Keayrt dy row va ree ayn.

My vees yn ree hene eh, cha nel kiart echey ayns Mannin.

King or no king, he has no right to be in Mann.

T' eh jeh sluight reeghyn Vannin.

king (monarchy, chess, card games, draughts)


lucky

From Middle English lukky, equivalent to luck + -y. Cognate with Scots lucky (“lucky”), West Frisian lokkich (“lucky, fortunate”), Dutch gelukkig (“lucky, fortunate, happy”). Compare also Danish lykkelig (“happy”), Swedish lycklig (“happy, lucky”), German glücklich (“happy”), Saterland Frisian glukkelk (“happy”).


gap

en-verb

gap (third-person singular simple present gaps, present participle gapping, simple past and past participle gapped)

gaps (present singular third-person)
gapping (participle present)
gapped (participle past)
gapped (past)

From Middle English gap, gappe, from Old Norse gap (“an empty space, gap, chasm”), from gapa (“to gape, scream”), from Proto-Germanic *gapōną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰeh₂- (“to open wide, gape”). Related to Danish gab (“an expanse, space, gap”), Old English ġeap (“open space, expanse”); compare English gape.

cog

Honestly K&C could release today with like a bit more SOT buffs and they'd probably still gap a lot of the game

2022 May 4, u/jhawk1117, “Two units that were really ahead of their time”, in Reddit, r/DBZDokkanBattle, archived from the original on 2024-07-18:

sometimes dril gets absolutely gapped by average ukraine war reddit comments

2023 May 23, @slime_machine, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-07-18:

Imagine street racing someone then suddenly both of you get gapped by a slammed tiger tank 😂 AKA der "Drippenwagen"

2023 December 19, @kommanderkarl, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-07-18:

"Not really the reason his team lost" is still not showing up by Chovy's standarts. Like in a way you're downplaying how good this guy has been domestically the last 3-4 years. He is comfortably the best player in the league and is utterly gapping every other midlaner in the league series after series, year after year.

2024 March 9, u/djpain20, “T1 vs. Gen.G / LCK 2024 Spring - Week 7 / Post-Match Discussion”, in Reddit, r/leagueoflegends, archived from the original on 2024-07-18:

My sports car gets gapped by families of 5 in these all the time and they don't even know we're racing

2024 May 14, u/DM-Me-Your_Titties, “Kia reveals mid-life update to EV6.”, in Reddit, r/cars, archived from the original on 2024-07-18:

When you avoid getting buffed next patch due to your players gapping

2024 July 6, @Rubiflorid, Twitter, archived from the original on 2024-07-18:

(transitive, intransitive, slang, especially video games, motor racing) To surpass (someone or something) by a considerable margin.


limp

en-verb

limp (third-person singular simple present limps, present participle limping, simple past and past participle limped)

limps (present singular third-person)
limping (participle present)
limped (participle past)
limped (past)

From Middle English limpen (“to fall short”), from Old English limpan, from Proto-West Germanic *limpan, from Proto-Germanic *limpaną (“to hang down”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)lemb-, *(s)lembʰ- (“to hang loosely, hang limply”).
Cognate with Low German lumpen (“to limp”), Middle High German limpfen (“to hobble, limp”), dialectal German lampen (“to hang down loosely”), Icelandic limpa (“limpness, weakness”).

cog

(poker slang, intransitive) To call, particularly in an unraised pot pre-flop.


grief

en-verb

grief (third-person singular simple present griefs, present participle griefing, simple past and past participle griefed)

griefs (present singular third-person)
griefing (participle present)
griefed (participle past)
griefed (past)

From Middle English greef, gref, from Old French grief (“grave, heavy, grievous, sad”), from Latin gravis (“heavy, grievous, sad”). Doublet of grave.

der

While ban and his pals stand squarely in this tradition, they also stand for something new: the rise of organized griefing, grounded in online message-board communities and thick with in-jokes, code words, taboos, and an increasingly articulate sense of purpose. No longer just an isolated pathology, griefing has developed a full-fledged culture.

2008 January 18, Julian Dibbell, “Mutilated Furries, Flying Phalluses: Put the Blame on Griefers, the Sociopaths of the Virtual World”, in Wired:

(online gaming) To deliberately harass and annoy or cause grief to other players of a game in order to interfere with their enjoyment of it; especially, to do this as one’s primary activity in the game, and especially by exploiting game mechanics without using cheats to do so.


player

From Middle English pleyer, playere, from Old English pleġere (“player, athlete, wrestler”), from Proto-West Germanic *plegārī. Equivalent to play + -er.

inh

The player is free to create their own narrative within a much larger set of possible designed narrative options, or, given the geographic and dialogical openness of Morrowind, to refuse the creation of any narrative but their own and wander aimlessly through the game.

2015, Angus Slater, “Prophecy, Pre-destination, and Free-form Gameplay: The Nerevarine Prophecy in Bethesda’s ‘Morrowind’”, in Online: Heidelberg Journal of Religions on the Internet, volume 7, →DOI, page 175:

(gaming, video games) A gamer; a player of video games or similar.

玩家

video games: gamer, gamester — see also gamer, gamester


player

Unadapted borrowing from English player.

O server da Hawkwind reconheceria os códigos desonestos e daria um belo de um kick no traseiro gordo do Esmagossauro, ou de qualquer player que ousasse ser desonesto na rede.

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

(video games) player (a person or artificial intelligence that competes in a video game)


raid

From Scots raid, from Northern Middle English rade, from Old English rād (“a riding, an expedition on horseback, road”), whence also the inherited English road (“way, street”). The earlier senses of “a riding, expedition, raid” fell into disuse in Early Modern English, but were revived in the northern form raid by Walter Scott in the early 19th century. The use for a swift police operation appears in the later 19th century and may perhaps have been influenced by French razzia (similar in both original meaning and sound).

der

massively multiplayer online game
massively multiplayer online game

(online gaming) A large group in a massively multiplayer online game, consisting of multiple parties who team up to defeat a powerful enemy.


underplay

en-verb

underplay (third-person singular simple present underplays, present participle underplaying, simple past and past participle underplayed)

underplays (present singular third-person)
underplaying (participle present)
underplayed (participle past)
underplayed (past)

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

(transitive, card games) To play a low card when holding a high one, in the hope of a future advantage.

laistaa

card games: to play a low card when holding a high one


slam

en-noun

slam (countable and uncountable, plural slams)

desctree

→ French: chelem, schelem
→ English: chelem

Unknown and long-speculated, though perhaps at least reinforced by Etymology 1. Doublet of chelem.

(countable, card games) Losing or winning all the tricks in a game.

(countable, bridge) A bid of six (small slam) or seven (grand slam) in a suit or no trump.


slam

en-verb

slam (third-person singular simple present slams, present participle slamming, simple past and past participle slammed)

slams (present singular third-person)
slamming (participle present)
slammed (participle past)
slammed (past)

D having seven Spades in his Hand wins them, and consequently slams A and B

1742, Edmond Hoyle, A Short Treatise on the Game of Whist:

(transitive, card games) To defeat (opponents at cards) by winning all the tricks of a deal or a hand.

(intransitive, bridge) To make a slam bid.


slam

Borrowed from English slam. Attested since 1787.

(card games) slam (winning all the tricks in a game, such as bridge)


blind

From Middle English blynd, from Old English blind, from Proto-West Germanic *blind, from Proto-Germanic *blindaz.

The blinds are $10 and $20, and the ante is $1.

(poker) A forced bet: the small blind or the big blind.

The blinds immediately folded when I reraised.

(poker) A player who is forced to pay such a bet.


blind

en-adv

blind (comparative more blind, superlative most blind)

more blind (comparative)
most blind (superlative)

(poker, three card brag) Without looking at the cards dealt.


suite

→ Belarusian: сюіта (sjuita)

→ Bulgarian: сюита (sjuita)

→ Catalan: suite

→ Czech: suita

→ Danish: suite

→ Dutch: suite

→ English: suite

→ Galician: suite

→ German: Suite

→ Greek: σουίτα (souíta)

→ Italian: suite

→ Norwegian Bokmål: suite

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: suite

→ Polish: suita

→ Portuguese: suíte

→ Romanian: suită

→ Russian: сюи́та (sjuíta)

→ Spanish: suite

→ Persian: سوئیت (su'it)

→ Ukrainian: сюї́та (sjujíta)

Inherited from Old French suite, from earlier siute, from Vulgar Latin *sequita, (instead of classical secūta), as the feminine past participle of *sequere, from Latin sequi.


yoke

From Middle English yok, yoke, ȝok from Old English ġeoc (“yoke”), from Proto-Germanic *juką (“yoke”), from Proto-Indo-European *yugóm (“yoke”), from *yewg- (“to join; to tie together, yoke”). Doublet of yuga, jugum, yoga and possibly yogh.
Senses 3.1 (“area of arable land”) and 3.2 (“amount of work done with draught animals”) probably referred to the area of land that could generally be ploughed by yoked draught animals within a given time.

poikkipuu

linking or supporting object that resembles a yoke

駕駛桿

device with crosspieces used to control an aircraft

iugum

unit of land area notionally equivalent to the area a team of yoked draft animals can work in a day

Senses relating to a frame around the neck.

Any of various linking or supporting objects that resembles a yoke (sense 1.1); a crosspiece, a curved bar, etc.

(aviation) Any of various devices with crosspieces used to control an aircraft; specifically, the control column.

(video games) A similar device used as a game controller.


bettor

In fact, as Ambrose Hammer places the cage on our table and then sits down beside me, Mindy approaches us, and says to Ambrose: "Horse players, yes," Mindy says. "Wrong bettors, yes. Dogs and song writers and actors, yes. But parrots," Mindy says, "no. Take it away," he says.

1944, Damon Runyon, Runyon à la Carte:"So You Won't Talk!":

Still others, chasing the mirage of vast riches bettors think are there for the taking, seek information or tips from any and all, despite all omens, silent writing on the wall and dire predictions about their fates, like the title of Damon Runyon's book All Horse Players Die Broke.

2003, Bert Sugar, Horse Sense: An Inside Look at the Sport of Kings, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN:

A person who makes a bet, such as a wager on the outcome of a game of chance or a sporting event.


slime

en-noun

slime (countable and uncountable, plural slimes)

→ French: slime

→ Japanese: スライム (suraimu)

→ Korean: 슬라임 (seullaim)

From Middle English slime, slyme, slim, slym, from Old English slīm, from Proto-Germanic *slīmą, from Proto-Indo-European *sley- (“smooth; slick; sticky; slimy”). Cognates include Danish slim, Saterland Frisian Sliem, Dutch slijm, German Schleim (“mucus, slime”), Latin limus (“mud”), Ancient Greek λίμνη (límnē, “marsh”).

der

This is a nameless blue slime, drawn by Chris Hildenbrand, for a role playing game (RPG) that was never released.

2006, Lawrence Wright, Character Design for Mobile Devices, Gulf Professional Publishing, →ISBN, page 8:

(fantasy, video games) A monster having the form of a slimy blob.


assrun

en-verb

assrun (third-person singular simple present assruns, present participle assrunning, simple past assran, past participle assrun)

assruns (present singular third-person)
assrunning (participle present)
assran (past)
assrun (participle past)

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

From ass + run. First used among gaming communities in the late 1990s.

One of your players assran me at every opportunity.

You were assrunning for the whole game.

first-person shooter
first-person shooter

(US, video games, slang) To follow (a player in a first-person shooter game) in order to shoot them from behind.


wager

From Middle English wajour, wageour, wager, from Old Northern French wageure, from wagier (“to pledge”) (compare Old French guagier, whence modern French gager), ultimately from Frankish *waddjōn (“to pledge”), from Frankish *wadi ~ *waddī (“pledge”). See also wage.

/ˈwæɪ.d͡ʒə(ɹ)/

1842-43, Edgar Allan Poe, "The Mystery of Marie Roget"
“This thicket was a singular, an exceedingly singular one. It was unusually dense. Within its naturally walled enclosure were three extraordinary stones, forming a seat with a back and footstool.… , whose boys were in the habit of closely examining the shrubberies about them in search of the bark of the sassafras. Would it be a rash wager – a wager of one thousand to one – that a day never passed over the heads of these boys without finding at least one of them ensconced in the umbrageous hall, and enthroned upon its natural throne? Those who would hesitate at such a wager, have either never been boys themselves, or have forgotten the boyish nature."

evento su cui si scommette (see: scommettere)


wager

wager (third-person singular simple present wagers, present participle wagering, simple past and past participle wagered)

wagers (present singular third-person)
wagering (participle present)
wagered (participle past)
wagered (past)

/ˈwæɪ.d͡ʒə(ɹ)/

I'd wager my boots on it.

(transitive) To bet something; to put it up as collateral.

I'll wager that Johnson knows something about all this.

(intransitive, figuratively) To suppose; to dare say.


reserve

en-noun

reserve (countable and uncountable, plural reserves)

From Old French reserver, from Latin reservō (“to reserve, retain”).

اِحْتِيَاط

that which is reserved or kept back, as for future use

рэзерва́цыя

tract of land reserved for Aboriginal people

Something initially kept back for later use in recreation.

(card games) A group or pile of cards dealt out at the beginning of a patience or solitaire game to be used during play.


capote

From French capot (“bonnet”), first attested in the 17th century.

ref

José Pedro Machado (1995) “Capote”, in Dicionário etimológico da língua portuguesa: com a mais antiga documentação escrita e conhecida de muitos dos vocábulos estudados (in Portuguese), 7 edition, volume II, Lisboa: Livros Horizonte, →ISBN, page 63


pointless

en-adj

pointless (comparative more pointless, superlative most pointless)

more pointless (comparative)
most pointless (superlative)

From Middle English pointles, poynteles, poyntlees; equivalent to point + -less.

After four matches and four defeats, United remain pointless at the foot of the table.


ringer

(games) In the game of horseshoes, the event of the horseshoe landing around the pole.

(uncountable, games) A game of marbles where players attempt to knock each other's marbles out of a ring drawn on the ground.


spare

From Middle English spare, spar, from Old English spær (“sparing, scant”), from Proto-Germanic *sparaz, from Proto-Indo-European *sph₁rós, from the root *speh₁-.
Compare Dutch spaar(zaam), German spar(sam) and spär(lich), Swedish spar(sam), Icelandic sparr (“sparing”); also Latin (pro)sperus (“lucky”), Old Church Slavonic споръ (sporŭ, “plentiful”), Albanian shperr (“earn money”), Persian سپار (sepâr, “entrust; deposit”), Ancient Greek σπαρνός (sparnós, “rare”), Sanskrit स्फिर (sphirá, “thick”).

cog

(bowling) The right of bowling again at a full set of pins, after having knocked all the pins down in less than three bowls. If all the pins are knocked down in one bowl it is a double spare; in two bowls, a single spare.

(bowling) The act of knocking down all remaining pins in second ball of a frame; this entitles the pins knocked down on the next ball to be added to the score for that frame.


spare

head

spare c (singular definite sparen, plural indefinite spare or spares)

sparen (definite singular)
spare (indefinite plural)
spares (indefinite plural)
spare (indefinite nominative singular)
sparen (definite nominative singular)
spare (indefinite nominative plural)
spares (indefinite nominative plural)
sparene (definite nominative plural)
spares (genitive indefinite singular)
sparens (definite genitive singular)
spares (genitive indefinite plural)
spares' (genitive indefinite plural)
sparenes (definite genitive plural)

From English spare. Related to the following verb.

(bowling) spare (the act of knocking down all remaining pins in second ball of a frame)


beastmaster

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(video games) A character in video games who fights monsters and other creatures.

role-playing video game
role-playing video game

(video games) A role-playing video game character class that is able to control beasts or draw upon their aspects or powers.


stack

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From Middle English stack, stacke, stakke, stak, from Old Norse stakkr (“a barn; haystack; heap; pile”), from Proto-Germanic *stakkaz (“a barn; rick; haystack”), which per Kroonen (arguing for the controversial Kluge's law) is from *stogʰ-nós, cognate with Ancient Greek στόχος (stokhos), but unclear whether he derives *stogʰ-nós from a Proto-Indo-European *stegʰ- (“pole; rod; stick; stake”). Per Pokorny et al., from PIE *(s)teg- (“stake, pole, rod, stick, beam”) and cognate with Latin tignum ("tree trunk, beam, log"), but not cognate with Ancient Greek στόχος.
The data structure sense is a calque of Dutch stapel, introduced by Edsger W. Dijkstra.
Cognate with Icelandic stakkur (“stack”), Swedish stack (“stack”), Danish stak (“stack”), Norwegian stakk (“stack”). Related to stake and sauna.

der

(poker) The amount of money a player has on the table.

I've got 107 Golden Branches, but the stack size is 20 so they're taking up 6 spaces in my inventory.

(video games) The quantity of a given item which fills up an inventory slot or bag.


stack

en-verb

stack (third-person singular simple present stacks, present participle stacking, simple past and past participle stacked)

stacks (present singular third-person)
stacking (participle present)
stacked (participle past)
stacked (past)

натрупвам

To place objects or material in the form of a stack

This is the third hand in a row where you've drawn four of a kind. Someone is stacking the deck!

(transitive, card games) To arrange the cards in a deck in a particular manner, especially for cheating.

нареждам

I won Jill's last $100 this hand; I stacked her!

(transitive, poker) To take all the money another player currently has on the table.

A magical widget will double your mojo. And yes, they do stack: if you manage to get two magical widgets, your mojo will be quadrupled. With three, it will be octupled, and so forth.


ladder

From Middle English ladder, laddre, from Old English hlǣder, from Proto-West Germanic *hlaidriju, from Proto-Germanic *hlaidrijō, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱlóydʰrom, from *ḱley- (“to lean”).
Compare Scots ledder, North Frisian ladder, Saterland Frisian Laadere, West Frisian ljedder, Dutch ladder, leer, German Leiter); also Old Irish clithar (“hedge”), Umbrian 𐌊𐌋𐌄𐌈𐌓𐌀𐌌 (kleθram, “stretcher”)). See lean, which is related to lid.

The form of a man was seen to enter, and both the females rushed up the ladder, as if equally afraid of the consequences. The stranger secured the door, and first examining the lower room with great care, he cautiously ascended the ladder.

1851, J[ames] Fenimore Cooper, “Chapter XXIII”, in The Pathfinder; or, The Inland Sea … Complete in One Volume. Revised and Corrected, with a New Introduction, Notes, &c., by the Author (The Leather-stocking Tales; III), rev. edition, New York, N.Y.: George P[almer] Putnam, 155 Broadway, →OCLC, page 411:

Ladders are heavy and unwieldy. Handle them properly to avoid damaging property and to make sure you don't injure yourself. Carry a ladder upright, not slung across your shoulder. Hold the ladder vertically, bend your knees slightly, then rock the ladder back against your shoulder. Grip one rung lower down while you support the ladder at head height with your other hand, and then straighten your knees.

2009, Albert Jackson, David Day, Popular Mechanics Complete Home How-To, rev. edition, New York, N.Y.: Hearst Books, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc., →ISBN, page 31:

And why wouldn't I just turn around, not take a chance on the bad luck of walking under a ladder? Because, beyond it, there was Pluckie. My little dog was leashed to a bush, lunging and barking. If the leash came loose, her lunge could send her tumbling down the mountainside.

2014, Linda O. Johnston, Lost under a Ladder, Woodbury, Minn.: Midnight Ink, Llewellyn Worldwide, →ISBN:

A frame, usually portable, of wood, metal, or rope, used for ascent and descent, consisting of two side pieces to which are fastened rungs (cross strips or rounds acting as steps).

Many publicly held companies do have good working conditions, but they often employ mostly high-wage workers or offer different levels of working conditions and benefits to management employees than to workers at the bottom of the ladder.

2010, Jody Heymann, Magda Barrera, Profit at the Bottom of the Ladder: Creating Value by Investing in Your Workforce, Boston, Mass.: Harvard Business Press, →ISBN, page 6:

(figuratively) The hierarchy or ranking system within an organization, such as the corporate ladder.

leer

the hierarchy or ranking system within an organization

Proposed Standard of Needlework to be required from Pupil-teachers at the Yearly Visits of Her Majesty's Inspectors. […] Darning Stockings.—To show a hole darned, and a thin place "run" (or strengthened), and a ladder properly taken up in a coarse worsted stocking.

1875, Report of the Committee of Council on Education (England and Wales); with Appendix. 1874–75. Report, and Parts I. to IV. of Appendix. Presented to both Houses of Parliament by Command of Her Majesty. (Reports from Commissioners, Inspectors, and Others: Twenty-seven Volumes; XXIV), volume X (Education), London: Printed by George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode, printers to the Queen's Most Excellent Majesty, for Her Majesty's Stationery Office, →OCLC, page 54:

You've got a huge ladder in your stockings. I've got a spare pair in my bag, come to the Ladies and you can change.

2008, Åsa Larsson, translated by Marlaine Delargy, The Black Path, New York, N.Y.: Bantam Dell, →ISBN:

(chiefly British) A length of unravelled fabric in a knitted garment, especially in nylon stockings; a run.

leer

The most dramatic introduction to the idea of how stones relate to each other over distance is how players react when a ladder (shicho, "she-ko"^([sic]) in Japanese) [シチョウ (shichō)] develops. […] Ouch! This is finding out about the ladder, which is called that because of the steplike shape that the defending stones are forced into.

2003, Peter Shotwell, Go! More Than a Game, Boston, Mass.: Tuttle Publishing, →ISBN:

(go) A sequence of moves following a zigzag pattern and ultimately leading to the capture of the attacked stones.


ladder

ladder (third-person singular simple present ladders, present participle laddering, simple past and past participle laddered)

ladders (present singular third-person)
laddering (participle present)
laddered (participle past)
laddered (past)

For eighteen minutes Revenge pounded the dockyard area at an average range of 15,700 yards, spreading for line and laddering for range to a prearranged plan to cover the whole target area.

2007, Peter Smith, Naval Warfare in the English Channel: 1939-1945, page 134:

Laddering made it possible to get a few hits on a fast-moving, often manoeuvring, target.

2014, Norman Friedman, Naval Anti-Aircraft Guns & Gunnery:

(UK, naval slang) To close in on a target with successive salvos, increasing or decreasing the shot range as necessary.

offences to be taken into consideration
offence to be taken into consideration

(UK, law enforcement, of a police officer) To corruptly coerce a convicted offender to admit to offences to be taken into consideration which they do not actually believe they committed, as a way to artificially increase the rate of solved crimes.


triumph

en-noun

triumph (countable and uncountable, plural triumphs)

From Middle English [Term?], borrowed from Old French triumphe, from Latin triumphus (“triumphal procession”), ultimately from Ancient Greek θρίαμβος (thríambos, “thriambus”). Doublet of thriambus and trump.

der

A magnificent and imposing ceremonial performed in honor of a victor.

триумф

ceremony performed in honour of a victory

Eros has
Packt Cards with Cæsars, and false plaid my Glory
Unto an Enemies triumph

c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:

A card trick in which the cards are shuffled with half face-up and half face-down, then laid out so that only the observer's chosen card is facing upward.


triumph

en-verb

triumph (third-person singular simple present triumphs, present participle triumphing, simple past and past participle triumphed)

triumphs (present singular third-person)
triumphing (participle present)
triumphed (participle past)
triumphed (past)

Of the kings and the queens that triumph in the cards

1625, Ben Jonson, The Fortunate Isles and Their Union:


telegraph

André François Miot de Mélito
Claude Chappe
telegraph
telegraph (disambiguation)

Borrowed from French télégraphe, equivalent to tele- (“far, distant”) + graph (“writing”), suggested as a new name for Claude Chappe's overland semaphore network by André François Miot de Mélito in place of Chappe's original tachygraphe (“tachygraph, fast writer”).

af

(video games) A visible or audible cue that indicates to an opponent the action that a character is about to take.


pas

head

pas c (singular definite passen, plural indefinite passer)

passen (definite singular)
passer (indefinite plural)
pas (indefinite nominative singular)
passen (definite nominative singular)
passer (indefinite nominative plural)
passerne (definite nominative plural)
pas' (genitive indefinite singular)
passens (definite genitive singular)
passers (genitive indefinite plural)
passernes (definite genitive plural)

Borrowed from French passe, from French passer.


pas

pas (nominative singular)
pasy (nominative plural)
pasu (genitive singular)
pasów (genitive plural)
pasowi (dative singular)
pasom (dative plural)
pas (accusative singular)
pasy (accusative plural)
pasem (instrumental singular)
pasami (instrumental plural)
pasie (locative singular)
pasach (locative plural)
pasie (singular vocative)
pasy (plural vocative)


pas

Borrowed from English pass or from French passe.

(card games) A phrase indicating that the player is declining to play their turn; I pass


stacked

en-adj

stacked (comparative more stacked, superlative most stacked)

more stacked (comparative)
most stacked (superlative)

The addition of Holiday is especially auspicious because while the team is stacked with great offensive players, it is a little lacking on defense, and he fills that gap.

2021 July 23, Eve Peyser, “U.S. Men's Basketball Had a Rocky Tokyo Olympics Start. I'm Still Excited.”, in New York Magazine:

(sports, video games, of a team) Having many skilled players.

(title)

2022 January 2, Carvs, “I Killed a Stacked Player Using 117 Ravagers...”, in YouTube:

(video games) Having a large advantage as a result of accumulating many items and upgrades.


맥

the hanja entry at 脈 for Sino-Korean compounds of 맥

(by extension, board games) strategically crucial area of the board


cryptogram

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You already know this if you are an amateur codebreaker. On the comics pages of many newspapers, you will find a little puzzle known as a cryptogram. It's usually a famous quotation that has been encrypted in a very straightforward way […]

2007, Charles Seife, Decoding the Universe, Penguin, →ISBN:

(games) A type of word puzzle in which text encoded by a simple cipher is to be decoded.


offside

offside (comparative more offside, superlative most offside)

more offside (comparative)
most offside (superlative)

(bridge) Unfavourably located, from the point of view of the player taking a finesse.


chopsticks

(hand games) A hand game in which players hold up a number of fingers on each hand and try, through certain moves, to eliminate their opponent's hands.


bestiary

Borrowed from Medieval Latin bēstiārium, from Latin bēstia (“beast, animal”). By surface analysis, beast + -ary.

(gaming) A list or guidebook of the monsters to be found in a roleplaying game.


punch buggy

(informal) A game in which the first player to call "Punch buggy!" on sighting a Volkswagen Beetle gets to punch the other.


sweet sixteen

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SF

(video games) Initialism of Street Fighter.


rag

→ Kashubian: reksa (United States)

From Middle English ragge, from Old English ragg (suggested by derivative raggiġ (“shaggy; bristly; ragged”)), from Old Norse rǫgg (“tuft; shagginess”), from Proto-Germanic *rawwa-, probably related to *rūhaz. Cognate with Swedish ragg. Related to rug.

I have ace-four on my hand. In other words, I have ace-rag.


baccara

→ Portuguese: bacará

→ Spanish: bacará

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

unk

unclear and debated origin


गज

gaja (romanization)
गजः (nominative singular)
गजौ (dual nominative)
गजा1 (dual nominative)
गजाः (nominative plural)
गजासः1 (nominative plural)
गज (singular vocative)
गजौ (dual vocative)
गजा1 (dual vocative)
गजाः (plural vocative)
गजासः1 (plural vocative)
गजम् (accusative singular)
गजौ (accusative dual)
गजा1 (accusative dual)
गजान् (accusative plural)
गजेन (instrumental singular)
गजाभ्याम् (dual instrumental)
गजैः (instrumental plural)
गजेभिः1 (instrumental plural)
गजाय (dative singular)
गजाभ्याम् (dative dual)
गजेभ्यः (dative plural)
गजात् (ablative singular)
गजाभ्याम् (ablative dual)
गजेभ्यः (ablative plural)
गजस्य (genitive singular)
गजयोः (dual genitive)
गजानाम् (genitive plural)
गजे (locative singular)
गजयोः (dual locative)
गजेषु (locative plural)

Maharastri Prakrit: 𑀕𑀅 (gaa)

Pali: gaja

→ Thai: คชา (ká-chaa), คช (kót)

→ Acehnese: gajah

→ Balinese: ᬕᬚᬄ (gajah)

→ Banjarese: gajah

→ Toba Batak: ᯎᯐ (gaja)

→ Bikol Central: gagdya

→ Cebuano: gadya

→ Chinese: 伽耶 (qiéyé)

→ Gorontalo: gaja

→ Hiligaynon: gadyo

→ Hindi: गज (gaj)

→ Ilocano: gadia

→ Javanese: ꦒꦗꦃ (gajah)

→ Kannada: ಗಜ (gaja)

→ Ledo Kaili: gaja

→ Kapampangan: gagdia

→ Madurese: ꦓꦙ (ghajha)

desctree

→ Malay: gajah
Indonesian: gajah
→ Bikol Central: gadyâ
→ Cebuano: gadyâ
→ Maguindanao: gajah
→ Tagalog: gadya
→ Tausug: gadja

→ Malayalam: ഗജം (gajaṁ)

→ Minangkabau: gajah

→ Old Gujarati: गज (gaja)

→ Marwari: गज (gaj) (learned)

→ Molbog: gaja

→ Brooke's Point Palawano: gadya

→ Sasak: gajah

→ Sika: glajak

→ Sundanese: ᮌᮏᮂ (gajah)

→ Tagalog: gadya

→ Tamil: கஜம் (kajam)

→ Telugu: గజము (gajamu)

→ Tulu: ಗಜ (gaja)

→ Urdu: گج (gaj)

→ Waray-Waray: gadya

→ Wolio: gaja

→ English: gaja (learned)

Of uncertain, possibly substrate, origin.

(chaturanga) gaja, a chaturanga piece ancestral to the bishop in chess


old lady

Watch out for that old lady waiting for you.


bookie

(informal) A bookmaker, being a person who, or business which, takes bets from the general public on sporting events and similar.


Zugzwang

de-noun

Zugzwang m (strong, genitive Zugzwangs or Zugzwanges, plural Zugzwänge)

Zugzwangs (genitive)
Zugzwanges (genitive)
Zugzwänge (plural)
Zugzwang (nominative singular)
Zugzwänge (definite nominative plural)
Zugzwangs (genitive singular)
Zugzwanges (genitive singular)
Zugzwänge (definite genitive plural)
Zugzwang (dative singular)
Zugzwange (dative singular)
Zugzwängen (dative definite plural)
Zugzwang (accusative singular)
Zugzwänge (accusative definite plural)

→ Armenian: Ցուգցվանգ (Cʻugcʻvang)

→ English: zugzwang

→ French: zugzwang

→ Russian: цугцва́нг (cugcváng)

From Zug (“move”) + Zwang (“compulsion”).

Kühe können entlang den Linien um ein Feld gezogen werden. Sie können nicht springen und nicht schlagen. Für beide Parteien gilt Zugzwang. Für den Leoparden gilt kein Schlagzwang.

2006, Claus Voigt, “Kühe und Leoparden [Cows and Leopards]”, in Asiatische Spiele [Asian Games], Humboldt, page 75:

Cows can be moved along the lines by one square. They cannot jump nor capture any piece. Both players are forced to make a move. The leopard is not forced to capture a piece if possible.

(games, especially chess) Synonym of Zugpflicht (“the rule that a player cannot forgo a move”)


lap

From Middle English lappen (“to fold, wrap”) from earlier wlappen (“to fold, wrap”), from Old English *wlappan, *wlæppan, *wlappian (“to wrap”), from Proto-Germanic *wlapp-, *wrapp- (“to wrap, fold, roll up, turn”), from Proto-Indo-European *werb- (“to bend, turn”).
Cognate with Middle Dutch lappen (“to wrap up, embrace”), dialectal Danish vravle (“to wind”), Old Italian goluppare (“to wrap, fold up”) (from Germanic). Doublet of wrap. Also related to envelop, develop.
The sense of "to get a lap ahead (of someone) on a track" is from 1847, on notion of "overlapping." The noun meaning "a turn around a track" (1861) is from this sense.

cog

In card playing and other games, the points won in excess of the number necessary to complete a game;—so called when they are counted in the score of the following game.


paddle

en-noun

paddle (countable and uncountable, plural paddles)

→ Danish: paddel, padle

Partly from the verb paddle ("to splash, dabble"; see below) and partly from Middle English padell (“small spade”).
Middle English padell is from Medieval Latin padela, itself of uncertain origin: perhaps an alteration of Middle English *spaddle (see also spaddle), a diminutive of spade; or from Latin patella (“pan, plate”), the diminutive of patina, or a merger of the two. Compare Ancient Greek πηδάλιον (pēdálion, “rudder, steering oar”), derived from πηδός (pēdós, “the blade of an oar; an oar”).

cog

(video games, dated) A game controller with a round wheel used to control player movement along one axis of the video screen.


गृह

gṛhá (romanization)
गृहम् (nominative singular)
गृहे (dual nominative)
गृहाणि (nominative plural)
गृहा1 (nominative plural)
गृह (singular vocative)
गृहे (dual vocative)
गृहाणि (plural vocative)
गृहा1 (plural vocative)
गृहम् (accusative singular)
गृहे (accusative dual)
गृहाणि (accusative plural)
गृहा1 (accusative plural)
गृहेण (instrumental singular)
गृहाभ्याम् (dual instrumental)
गृहैः (instrumental plural)
गृहेभिः1 (instrumental plural)
गृहाय (dative singular)
गृहाभ्याम् (dative dual)
गृहेभ्यः (dative plural)
गृहात् (ablative singular)
गृहाभ्याम् (ablative dual)
गृहेभ्यः (ablative plural)
गृहस्य (genitive singular)
गृहयोः (dual genitive)
गृहाणाम् (genitive plural)
गृहे (locative singular)
गृहयोः (dual locative)
गृहेषु (locative plural)

Ashokan Prakrit: *𑀕𑀭𑁆𑀳 (*garha) (see there for further descendants)

Dardic:

Kashmiri: گَرٕ (garụ), गरॖ (garụ)

Pali: gaha, ghara

→ Khmer: ឃរ (khɔɔ) (learned)

→ Bengali: গৃহ (grihô) (learned)

→ Hindustani: (learned)

Hindi: गृह (gŕh)

→ Kannada: ಗೃಹ (gṛha) (learned)

→ Malay: gerha (learned)

Indonesian: gerha

desc

→ Malayalam: ഗൃഹം (gr̥haṁ), കിരിയം (kiriyaṁ) (learned)

→ Nepali: गृह (gr̥ha) (learned)

→ Old Javanese: gṛha, gerha, greha, griya (learned)

Javanese: graha, griya

→ Indonesian: gerha, graha, greha, griya

→ Old Javanese: ghāra (“wife”)

desctree

Javanese: ꦒꦂꦮ (garwa, “wife”)
→ Indonesian: garwa
→ Sundanese: ᮌᮁᮝ (garwa)

→ Old Khmer: graha (learned)

Khmer: គ្រឹហា (krɨhaa)

→ Odia: ଗୃହ (gruha) (learned)

desc

→ Tamil: கிரகம் (kirakam), கிருகம் (kirukam)

→ Telugu: గృహము (gr̥hamu) (learned)

→ Thai: คฤห (krʉ́) (learned)

Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *gʰerdʰ-der.
Proto-Indo-Iranian *gʰr̥dʰás
Sanskrit गृह (gṛha)
From Proto-Indo-Iranian *gʰr̥dʰás (“house”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰr̥dʰ-ó-s, from *gʰerdʰ- (“enclosure”). Cognate with Avestan 𐬔𐬆𐬭𐬆𐬜𐬀 (gər^əδa), Old Church Slavonic градъ (gradŭ, “city”), English yard.


remis

Das Spiel endete remis.

(chess, sports) in a draw; the result being a draw


Bristol

en-noun

Bristol (countable and uncountable, plural Bristols)

From Middle English Brigstow, from Old English Bryċġstōw (literally “the place by the bridge”), from bryċġ + -stōw, with additional final /l/ due to hypercorrection from l-vocalizing accents. See bridge and stow for more.
The tiddlywinks sense is associated with players from Bristol University.

inh

In the Cambridge-improved version of tiddlywinks, potting isn't everything. […] Most of the matches I watched during the tournament were defensive struggles like this one, games that came down to squops, gromps and Bristols.

2007, Forbes, volume 180, numbers 8-13, page 93:

(countable, tiddlywinks) A shot that moves a whole pile of winks rather than just one.


Katie

(poker slang) A king and a ten as a starting hand in Texas hold 'em due to phonetic similarity with "K-T"


miniature

/ˈmɪn(i)ət͡ʃʊəɹ/

/ˈmɪnɪt͡ʃəɹ/

Borrowed from Italian miniatura (“manuscript illumination”), from miniare (“to illuminate”), from Latin miniō (“to colour red”), from minium (“red lead”).

bor

(chess) A chess game which is concluded with very few moves.

Jack had dozens of miniatures of Napoleonic footsoldiers painted in detailed period regalia for his wargames.

(roleplaying games, board games) A token in a game representing a unit or character.

roleplaying games; board games; roleplaying games; board games

miniatyyri

a token in a game representing a unit or character


MUD

multi-user dungeon
multi-user dungeon#English

(video games, online gaming) Acronym of multi-user dungeon: an interactive online environment in which players may jointly engage in fantasy role-playing games.


Spielkarte

de-noun

Spielkarte f (genitive Spielkarte, plural Spielkarten)

Spielkarte (genitive)
Spielkarten (plural)
Spielkarte (nominative singular)
Spielkarten (definite nominative plural)
Spielkarte (genitive singular)
Spielkarten (definite genitive plural)
Spielkarte (dative singular)
Spielkarten (dative definite plural)
Spielkarte (accusative singular)
Spielkarten (accusative definite plural)


tang

From Middle English tange, variant of tonge (“tongs, fang”), from Old Norse tangi (“pointed metal tool”), perhaps related to Old Norse tunga (“tongue”). But see also Middle Dutch tanger (“sharp, tart, pinching”).

ruoti

projecting part of an object by means of which it is secured to some other part

angel

part of small instrument inserted into handle

Coordinate term: biscuit


clip

en-verb

clip (third-person singular simple present clips, present participle clipping, simple past and past participle clipt or clipped)

clips (present singular third-person)
clipt (participle past)
clipt (past)
clipped (participle past)
clipped (past)

From Middle English clippen, from Old Norse klippa (“to clip, cut the hair, shear sheep”). Cognate with Icelandic klippa (“to clip”), Swedish klippa (“to clip”), Danish klippe (“to clip”), Norwegian Bokmål klippe (“to clip”).

der

The camera keeps clipping that ceiling.

Clipping through walls is integral to the game's speedruns.

Oh, no, I clipped my avatar through the barrier!

(computer graphics, video games, transitive, intransitive) To move (through or into) (a rendered object or barrier).


summon

From Anglo-Norman somoundre, from Old French sumundre, from Latin summonēre, itself from sub + monēre, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *monéyeti, causative from *men- (“to think”).

Conjuration magic in Baldur's Gate 3 allows players to summon a variety of helpful creatures […] These summons can assist players in combat and exploration, providing strategic advantages with their unique abilities.

2023 October 30, Nyah Payne, “Baldur's Gate 3: Best Summons, Ranked”, in Gamerant:

(video games) A creature magically summoned to do the summoner's bidding.


SOS

(games) A children's game in which players take turns to place S's and O's on a grid, collecting points by creating an "SOS" sequence.


twink

I certainly don't consider myself a twink; however it seems that anyone who doesn't agree with another's point of view is automatically labelled as such.

1997, Flower of the Night, “Looking for a mud”, in rec.games.mud.diku (Usenet):

You will not find any stock. You will not find any easy mobs. You will not find any +100 dam 'big swords of I win'. You will not find twink mudders. You will not hear about how Jim the Kewl dOOd scored last night at his sister's birthday party. You will not find bots.

1997, Gov't Cheeze, “[AD/REQUEST] Builders and Players (twinks need not apply)”, in rec.games.mud.admin (Usenet):

Bind-on-account was an innovation that allowed players to transfer goods to their own twinks, but not to those of other players.

2015, Richard A. Bartle, MMOs from the Inside Out, page 154:

Characters who were obvious twinks, possessing equipment well beyond their means, were subject to public criticism.

2016, Timothy Rowlands, Video Game Worlds: Working at Play in the Culture of EverQuest, page 71:

(gaming, derogatory) A player (or character created by a player) in a multi-user dungeon or other roleplaying game who engages in obnoxious or abusive behaviour, especially one who uses a higher-level character to give advanced equipment to one of their own lower-level characters.


twink

en-verb

twink (third-person singular simple present twinks, present participle twinking, simple past and past participle twinked)

twinks (present singular third-person)
twinking (participle present)
twinked (participle past)
twinked (past)

Twinking happens in virtual worlds with PD, but not to the same extent.·

2004, Richard A. Bartle, Designing Virtual Worlds, page 429:

However, the taboo surrounding twinking had all but disappeared by the time I started playing again in 2004.

2016, Timothy Rowlands, Video Game Worlds: Working at Play in the Culture of EverQuest:

He used real money to buy large amounts of in-game gold then 'twinked' his new character with the best gear, upgrading as his level rapidly increased.

2018, Adam Drake, Shadow For Hire Books 1-4::

That the twinked little brat doesn't want to mention that the only reason she won a single game was that daddy cut her a fat check.

2020, Alex Maven, ForeverQuest: Online Battle Arena:

(intransitive, gaming, derogatory) To engage in obnoxious or abusive behaviour in a multi-user dungeon or other roleplaying game, for example by griefing or by equipping a low-level character with advanced equipment from another player.


squat

squat (third-person singular simple present squats, present participle squatting, simple past and past participle squatted)

squats (present singular third-person)
squatting (participle present)
squatted (participle past)
squatted (past)

From Middle English squatten, from Old French esquatir, escatir (“compress, press down, lay flat, crush”), from es- (“ex-”) + quatir (“press down, flatten”), from Vulgar Latin *coactire (“press together, force”), from Latin coāctus, perfect passive participle of cōgō (“force together, compress”).
The sense “nothing” may be the source or a derivation of diddly-squat.

uder

I can't believe they squatted my favorite faction!

(slang, board games) To retire a modeling kit or group of modeling kits.


돌

First attested in the Seokbo sangjeol (釋譜詳節 / 석보상절), 1447, as Middle Korean 돓〯 (Yale: twǒlh). In turn, from an earlier *tworVk on the basis that an placename element 石 alternates with 珍惡 (MC trin 'ak; OC *trə[n] ʔˤak) in the Samguk Sagi. The final velar plosive is also preserved in some Korean dialects .
Unrelated to Proto-Turkic *tāĺ (cf. Chuvash чул (čul)) and Proto-Mongolic *čïlaxun (cf. Mongolian чулуу (čuluu)).

ko-etym-native

Clipping of 바둑돌 (badukdol, “(go) Go stone”).


racial

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(gaming) A skill possessed by all characters of a certain race.


spik

From Old Norse spíkr, from Proto-Germanic *spīkaz, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *spey- (“expand, extend, stretch”).

der

En spik i lopp 5.

(horse gambling) a straight bet; betting on only a single horse in a race


simmer

(informal, video games) Someone who plays a sim (a simulation game), particularly The Sims.


todo

Borrowed from Spanish todo. Doublet of todas.

(gambling) entirely put as bet in a single game


todo

(gambling) act of betting all one's money in a single game


marble

en-noun

marble (countable and uncountable, plural marbles)

From Middle English marble, marbre, from Anglo-Norman and Old French marbre, from Latin marmor, from Ancient Greek μάρμαρος (mármaros), perhaps related to μαρμάρεος (marmáreos, “gleaming”). Much of the early classical marble came from the 'Marmaris' sea above the Aegean. The forms from French replaced Old English marma, which had previously been borrowed from Latin.

(countable, games) A small ball used in games, originally of marble but now usually of glass or ceramic.


variation

variation (usually uncountable, plural variations)

/ˌvɛəɹɪˈeɪʃn̩/

/ˌvɛəɹiˈeɪʃn̩/

/ˌvæɹiˈeɪʃn̩/

/ˌvɛɹiˈeɪʃn̩/

From Middle French variation, from Old French variacion, from Latin variātiō, from vary + -ation.

(board games) A line of play that differs from the original.

вариант

(board games) a line of play that differs from the original


bingo

bingo (countable and uncountable, plural bingos)

→ Polish: bingo

Alternative form of bing, suggesting a ringing sound. Attested since 1925.

(uncountable) A game of chance for two or more players, who mark off numbers on a grid as they are announced by the caller; the game is won by the first person to call out "bingo!" or "house!" after crossing off all numbers on the grid or in one line of the grid.

(countable, Scrabble, US) A play where all seven of a player's letter tiles are played, awarding a score bonus.


bingo

bingo! (used when finding what one has been looking for or trying to recall, or on successful completion of a task)


tipster

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Absent from the pages of CRASH for a year, ex-tipster Robin Candy returns and puts finger to key to debate the state of the games software industry.

Those are the two choice words top tipster Rich Pelley used to describe the monthly helpathon that is the one and only COMPLETE CONTROL.

1994, “Amiga Power”, in magazine, number 42:

Does anybody know what Jon Riglar is doing now? (SU Tipster for about 6 years - Zapchat!).

1995, Stephen Smith, “Zub - Hidden Game?”, in comp.sys.sinclair (Usenet):

(video games, informal) One who provides tips or hints on how to succeed at a game.


honor

honor (countable and uncountable, plural honors)

From Middle English honour, honor, honur, from Anglo-Norman honour, honur, from Old French honor, from Latin honor.
Displaced Middle English menske (“honor, dignity among men”), from Old Norse menskr (“honor”).
The verb is from Middle English honouren, honuren (“to honor”).

оньо́р

card games: one of the most valuable cards

a prophet has no honor in his own country

a prophet is not without honor save in his own country

(countable, card games) In bridge, an ace, king, queen, jack, or ten especially of the trump suit; in some other games, an ace, king, queen or jack.


honor

honor (nominative singular)
honory (nominative plural)
honoru (genitive singular)
honorów (genitive plural)
honorowi (dative singular)
honorom (dative plural)
honor (accusative singular)
honory (accusative plural)
honorem (instrumental singular)
honorami (instrumental plural)
honorze (locative singular)
honorach (locative plural)
honorze (singular vocative)
honory (plural vocative)

desctree

→ Old Ruthenian: го́норъ (hónor), го́неръ (hóner)
Belarusian: го́нар (hónar)
Carpathian Rusyn: го́нор (hónor)
Ukrainian: го́нор (hónor); го́нір (hónir) (dialectal)
→ Middle Russian: го́норъ (gónor)
Russian: го́нор (gónor)

Inherited from Old Polish honor, from Latin honor.

(countable, bridge, card games) honor (in bridge: an ace, king, queen, jack, or ten, especially of the trump suit; in some other games: an ace, king, queen, or jack)


trip

From Middle English trippen (“tread or step lightly and nimbly, skip, dance”), perhaps from Old French triper (“to hop or dance around, strike with the feet”), from a Frankish source; or alternatively from Middle Dutch trippen (“to skip, trip, hop, stamp, trample”) (> Modern Dutch trippelen (“to toddle, patter, trip”)). Akin to Middle Low German trippen ( > Danish trippe (“to trip”), Swedish trippa (“to mince, trip”)), West Frisian tripje (“to toddle, trip”), German trippeln (“to scurry”), Old English treppan (“to trample, tread”). Related also to trap, tramp.

cog

(poker slang) Of or relating to trips (three of a kind).


ez

LOL too ez. ur so bad

Just use a courier to send your phone/laptop back every once a week it's that ez ¶ /s

2023 February 1, @Dooter18769429, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-11-17:

this game is too ez

2023 November 13, @6klvs, Twitter, archived from the original on 2023-11-17:

(text messaging, especially video games) Abbreviation of easy.


فيل

ar-noun

فِيل • (fīl) m (dual فِيلَان (fīlān), plural فِيَلَة (fiyala) or فُيُول (fuyūl) or أَفْيَال (ʔafyāl), feminine فِيلَة (fīla))

فِيل (canonical)
fīl (romanization)
فِيلَان (dual)
فِيَلَة (plural)
فُيُول (plural)
أَفْيَال (plural)
فِيلَة (feminine)
فِيل (indefinite informal singular triptote)
الْفِيل (definite informal singular triptote)
فِيل (construct informal singular triptote)
فِيلٌ (indefinite nominative singular triptote)
الْفِيلُ (definite nominative singular triptote)
فِيلُ (construct nominative singular triptote)
فِيلًا (accusative indefinite singular triptote)
الْفِيلَ (accusative definite singular triptote)
فِيلَ (accusative construct singular triptote)
فِيلٍ (genitive indefinite singular triptote)
الْفِيلِ (definite genitive singular triptote)
فِيلِ (construct genitive singular triptote)
فِيلَيْن (dual indefinite informal singular triptote)
الْفِيلَيْن (definite dual informal singular triptote)
فِيلَيْ (construct dual informal singular triptote)
فِيلَانِ (dual indefinite nominative singular triptote)
الْفِيلَانِ (definite dual nominative singular triptote)
فِيلَا (construct dual nominative singular triptote)
فِيلَيْنِ (accusative dual indefinite singular triptote)
الْفِيلَيْنِ (accusative definite dual singular triptote)
فِيلَيْ (accusative construct dual singular triptote)
فِيلَيْنِ (dual genitive indefinite singular triptote)
الْفِيلَيْنِ (definite dual genitive singular triptote)
فِيلَيْ (construct dual genitive singular triptote)
فِيَلَة (ar-infl-a broken-form indefinite informal plural triptote)
فُيُول (ar-infl-a broken-form indefinite informal plural triptote)
أَفْيَال (ar-infl-a broken-form indefinite informal plural triptote)
الْفِيَلَة (ar-infl-a broken-form definite informal plural triptote)
الْفُيُول (ar-infl-a broken-form definite informal plural triptote)
الْأَفْيَال (ar-infl-a broken-form definite informal plural triptote)
فِيَلَة (ar-infl-a broken-form construct informal plural triptote)
فُيُول (ar-infl-a broken-form construct informal plural triptote)
أَفْيَال (ar-infl-a broken-form construct informal plural triptote)
فِيَلَةٌ (ar-infl-a broken-form indefinite nominative plural triptote)
فُيُولٌ (ar-infl-a broken-form indefinite nominative plural triptote)
أَفْيَالٌ (ar-infl-a broken-form indefinite nominative plural triptote)
الْفِيَلَةُ (ar-infl-a broken-form definite nominative plural triptote)
الْفُيُولُ (ar-infl-a broken-form definite nominative plural triptote)
الْأَفْيَالُ (ar-infl-a broken-form definite nominative plural triptote)
فِيَلَةُ (ar-infl-a broken-form construct nominative plural triptote)
فُيُولُ (ar-infl-a broken-form construct nominative plural triptote)
أَفْيَالُ (ar-infl-a broken-form construct nominative plural triptote)
فِيَلَةً (accusative ar-infl-a broken-form indefinite plural triptote)
فُيُولًا (accusative ar-infl-a broken-form indefinite plural triptote)
أَفْيَالًا (accusative ar-infl-a broken-form indefinite plural triptote)
الْفِيَلَةَ (accusative ar-infl-a broken-form definite plural triptote)
الْفُيُولَ (accusative ar-infl-a broken-form definite plural triptote)
الْأَفْيَالَ (accusative ar-infl-a broken-form definite plural triptote)
فِيَلَةَ (accusative ar-infl-a broken-form construct plural triptote)
فُيُولَ (accusative ar-infl-a broken-form construct plural triptote)
أَفْيَالَ (accusative ar-infl-a broken-form construct plural triptote)
فِيَلَةٍ (ar-infl-a broken-form genitive indefinite plural triptote)
فُيُولٍ (ar-infl-a broken-form genitive indefinite plural triptote)
أَفْيَالٍ (ar-infl-a broken-form genitive indefinite plural triptote)
الْفِيَلَةِ (ar-infl-a broken-form definite genitive plural triptote)
الْفُيُولِ (ar-infl-a broken-form definite genitive plural triptote)
الْأَفْيَالِ (ar-infl-a broken-form definite genitive plural triptote)
فِيَلَةِ (ar-infl-a broken-form construct genitive plural triptote)
فُيُولِ (ar-infl-a broken-form construct genitive plural triptote)
أَفْيَالِ (ar-infl-a broken-form construct genitive plural triptote)

desc

فیل / фил / fil

→ Azerbaijani: فیل / фил / fil (fil)

fil / фил / פאִל

→ Judeo-Tat: fil / фил / פאִל (fil / фил / fil)

→ Central Kurdish: فیل (fîl)

→ Middle Armenian: ֆիլ (fil)

Armenian: ֆիլ (fil)

→ Old Norse: fíll

Faroese: fílur

Icelandic: fíll

⇒ Old Norse: fílsbein (“ivory”)

Icelandic: fílsbein

Danish: filsben

desctree

→ Ottoman Turkish: فیل (fil), ֆիլ (fil) — Armeno-Turkish
Turkish: fil
→ Albanian: fil
→ Laz: ჶილი (fili)
→ Serbo-Croatian: fȉl／фи̏л

desc

⇒ Ottoman Turkish: فیل دیشی (fildişi, “ivory”)

Turkish: fildişi

→ Romanian: fildeș

фѝлдиш / fìldiš

→ Serbo-Croatian: фѝлдиш / fìldiš

→ Greek: φίλντισι (fílntisi)

desctree

→ Persian: فیل (fil)
→ Bashkir: фил (fil)
→ Yagnobi: фил (fil)
→ Chechen: пийл (piı̇l)
→ Georgian: ჶილი (fili) — Fereydan
→ Hindi: फ़ील (fīl)
→ Kazakh: піл (pıl)
→ Kyrgyz: пил (pil)
→ Northern Kurdish: fîl
→ Pashto: پيل (pil)
→ Tajik: фил (fil)
→ Tatar: фил (fil)
→ Turkmen: pil
→ Urdu: فیل (fīl)
→ Uyghur: پىل (pil)
→ Uzbek: fil

→ Old Spanish: alfil (“bishop (chess)”)

Spanish: alfil

→ Asturian: alfil

→ Galician: alfil

→ Catalan: alfil

desc

عَظْم اَلْفِيل

⇒ Arabic: عَظْم اَلْفِيل (ʕaẓm al-fīl, “ivory”)

→ Old Spanish: almalfil

Spanish: marfil

→ Galician: marfil

→ Catalan: marfil

→ Old Galician-Portuguese: marfil, almafil

Portuguese: marfim

From Middle Persian pyl (/pīl/), from Akkadian 𒄠𒋛 (/pīru/), related to Egyptian ꜣbw Ab-b-w-E26 (root of English elephant).
Cognate with Aramaic פִּילָא (pīlā) and Hebrew פיל (píl). Compare also Old Armenian փիղ (pʻił), Persian پیل (pil), Sanskrit पीलु (pīlu).

(chess) bishop (use the dual to pluralize)


diabolo

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Borrowed from French diabolo, from older diable (literally “devil”), fancifully altered after cognate Italian diavolo and/or their common source, Latin diabolus. First attested in the early 20th century.
The Latin noun is from Ancient Greek διάβολος (diábolos, “devil”), itself derived from the verb διαβάλλω (diabállō, “to slander”, literally “to throw across”). The notion that this literal sense of “throw across” could be applied to the diabolo itself has led some commentators to assume a direct semantic connection, but there is no evidence suggesting that it is anything other than a coincidence.

der

A juggling apparatus consisting of a spool which is whirled and tossed on a string attached to handsticks.


diabolo

→ Portuguese: diabolô, diábolo


diabolo

Borrowed from French diabolo, derived from diabolique (“diabolical”).


diabolo

Borrowed from French diabolo. Doublet of diabeł.

diabolo (juggling apparatus consisting of a spool which is whirled and tossed on a string attached to handsticks)

diabolo (activity of playing with diabolo)


ملكة

ajp-noun

ملكة • (malike) f (construct state ملكة (malket), plural ملكات (malikāt), masculine ملك (malik))

malike (romanization)
ملكة (construct)
ملكات (plural)
ملك (masculine)