释义 |
ˈmake-game [Cf. make-sport.] One who or that which furnishes matter for amusement; hence, a laughing-stock, butt.
1762Bickerstaffe Love in Village ii. x. (1765) 44, I am the make-game of the whole village upon your account. 1797M. Robinson Walsingham I 280, I thought myself the mere make-game of a giddy girl. 1806Sporting Mag. XXVII. 197 A new discovery or invention, by way of make-game I suppose. 1817Godwin Mandeville I. 263 I was treated as nothing, a flouting-stock and a make-game. |