单词 | cribbage |
释义 | cribbagen. 1. A card game, played by two, three, or four persons, with a complete pack of 52 cards, five (or six) of which are dealt to each player, and a board with sixty-one holes on which the points are scored by means of pegs; a characteristic feature being the ‘crib’, consisting of cards thrown out from each player's hand, and belonging to the dealer. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > cribbage > [noun] cribbage1641 crib1885 1641 R. Brathwait Eng. Gentleman (ed. 3) 126 In games at Cards,..the Cribbage [requires] a recollected fancy. 1674 S. Vincent Young Gallant's Acad. 68 Such Ladies with whom you have plaid at Cribbidge. 1711 J. Puckle Club ⁋123 Guess then the numbers of frauds there are at Picquet, Gleck..Basset, Cribbidge, and all the rest of the games upon the cards. 1768 O. Goldsmith Good Natur'd Man iii. 31 Men that would go forty guineas on a game of cribbage. 1820 Hoyle's Games Improved 149 Mode of playing five-card cribbage..Eight-card cribbage is sometimes played; but very seldom. 1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop i. xxiii. 222 He proposed a game at four-handed cribbage. 2. a. The action of ‘cribbing’, or that which is ‘cribbed’; plagiarism. colloquial (rare).In first quot. with play on sense 1. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > plagiarism > [noun] stealtha1568 stealing1612 plagiuma1620 plagiarism1621 plagiary1630 plagiary-shipa1661 piracy1700 book-padding1723 pirating1774 cribbage1830 plagiarization1884 1830 Blackwood's Mag. 27 146 You think you are writing poetry, while you are only playing at cribbage. 1852 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 72 681 The only tolerable parts of the book were palpable cribbages from poor Ruxton. b. Something ‘cribbed’ or stolen. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > stolen goods > [noun] > article of stealth1426 rifle1657 steal1825 filching1834 cribbing1837 thieving1861 cribbage1862 rabbit1927 1862 H. Marryat One Year in Sweden II. 54 Gustaf Adolf..signed his abdication on an inlaid table—a Thirty Years War cribbage,—which stands under this very picture. Compounds attributive and in other combinations, as cribbage-card, cribbage-peg, cribbage-player, cribbage-table; cribbage-board n. the board used for marking at cribbage. cribbage-faced adj. (see quot.). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > blemish > [adjective] > scar > of plague or smallpox pock-broken1440 pock eaten?1536 pock-frettena1638 pock-fret1652 pock-holed1653 pockmarked1685 pock-fretted1693 pock frecken1695 pock-pittena1697 pock-freckled1714 pock-pitted1746 cribbage-faced1785 pock-arred1787 stub-faced1788 plague-spotted1819 brookita1908 society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > cribbage > [noun] > board noddy-boarda1625 cribbage-board1785 1755 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) III. 365 My brother is in great request at the cribbage-table. 1769 E. Raffald Experienced Eng. House-keeper vii. 181 To make Cribbage Cards in Flummery. 1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Cribbage-faced, marked with the small-pox, the pits bearing a kind of resemblance to the holes in a cribbage-board. 1810 Reformist II. 104 That skinny cribbage-faced little devil in pink. 1823 C. Lamb Old Benchers in Elia 201 [He] turned cribbage-boards, and such small cabinet toys, to perfection. 1824 M. R. Mitford Our Village I. 229 We cribbage-players are as well amused as they. 1839 36 Years Seafaring Life 46 Written in legible characters on his old cribbage face. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1641 |
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