gamern.

Brit.

/ˈɡeɪmə/, U.S.

/ˈɡeɪmər/

Forms:

α. late Middle English– gamer.

β. 1500s gamener, 1500s–1600s gamner.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: game n., -er suffix¹; game v., -er suffix¹.

Etymology: Partly < game n. + -er suffix¹, and partly < game v. + -er suffix¹. With the β. forms compare α. forms at game n. and α. forms at game v.Earlier currency (in uncertain meaning) may be implied by the surname of Johannes le Gamer , listed in a Close Roll of 1248 as one of three men detained in connection with a death (for a possible parallel, compare the surname Leyker , probably < lake v.¹).

1. A person who takes part in a game, pastime, or sport; (frequently) spec. a person who plays games for stakes, a gambler.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > [noun] > player of games of chance

tavlereOE

playera1387

gamera1450

adventurer1474

gamester1549

come you seven1605

tableman1608

knight of the elbow1705

sitter1748

gambler1784

gamestress1828

playman1844

sport1856

spieler1859

punter1860

tiger-hunter1896

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > athletics > [noun] > athlete

gamer1564

athletic1682

athlete1822

gymnasiarch1825

weekend athlete1941

thin-clad1947

Olympian1977

α.

a1450 in F. W. Willmore Hist. Walsall (1887) 167 That who soevyr suffer eny dise-player, carder, tenys player, or other unliefull gamer, to use unlifull games in their house, to lese for..suche defaute vi s. viii d.

1546 T. Langley tr. P. Vergil Abridgem. Notable Worke ii. viii. f. lxiii He that cast it leyed doune a penye or so much as the gamers were agreed on.

1570 A. Golding tr. D. Chytræus Postil 73 These [exercises] were called the naked Games, bycause the Gamers exercised themselues naked in those games.

1654 J. Parnell Tryal of Faith 4 All you scoffers and scorners, & backbiters, and revilers, and extortioners, and whoremongers, & envious ones, & Gamers, and sporters..are all shut out from the true faith.

1845 Symbol June 265 The gamer is farther from restoration even than the drunkard, because what he does he does in the light of sobriety and reason.

1881 A. S. Wolf Pictures & Portraits Foreign Trav. 239 The gamers devote their most subtle intellect to the work [of playing trente et quarante].

1930 R. A. Taylor Invitation Renaissance Italy viii. 191 The Mercato Vecchio..was the heart of the people—crowded with shops, merchants, idlers, gamblers, handmaids, courtiers, beggars, wastrels, gamers.

1950 Clearing House 24 518/2 There was no sadistic triumph of winner over loser, no jealous heartburning, no gamer's lust for easy riches.

1991 Pro Football Weekly Preview Oct. 173/1 He is a true gamer who responds when the game is on the line and the clock is winding down.

2006 S. Kirkpatrick Revenge T. Eakins xlvi. 439 The immensely popular sport of ‘ratting’..where gamers threw formidable river rats into pens with pit bulls.

β. 1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. clvii^v Suche ar great gamners hauynge small substance.1563 Abp. M. Parker Articles §11 Whether your Persons, Vicars, and Curates be common gameners.1564 T. Palfreyman Baldwin's Treat. Moral Philos. (new ed.) ii. v. f. 82^v The gamner [so in later eds. to 1600; 1605, 1610 gammer, 1620 gamer] breketh his leg in dauncing..his arme his shoulder or his necke wrastling.1579 in Court Leet Rec. Manch. (1884) I. 206 For the severe punishment of commen drunkards vnlawfull Bowlers and other vnlawefull gamners.

2. A person who hunts game. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > hunting > hunter > [noun]

huntc1000

huntera1325

cacherec1340

pricasourc1387

waithmanc1425

chaser1470

huntsman1567

pricker1575

Nimrod1623

venator1656

fieldmana1683

sportsman1699

coureur de bois1700

sporting parson1757

chasseur1796

jäger1823

shikari1827

venerer1845

hunting-man1859

gamer1887

hunterman1891

veldman1895

1887 Sci. Amer. 15 Jan. 37 [Labrador] certainly deserves the attention of gamers, fishers [etc.].

1921 Pop. Educator Nov. 155/2 Ye goodly brethren, Standish be a goodly shot. I vote he be among ye gamers.

2008 J. Shay Savannah Classic Desserts ii. 42 Chef Latture seeks out ingredients..from farmers, gamers, fishermen, and dairy producers close at hand.

a. A participant in a war-game or role-playing game; a player or creator of such games. Cf. war-gamer n. at war n.¹ Compounds 4.In the context of computer-based role-playing games, often not distinguishable from sense 3b.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > table game > other table games > [noun] > war game > player

kriegsspieler1891

war-gamer1967

gamer1969

1969 N.Y. Times 1 July 43/1 With manuals, rules, computers, umpires and imagination..the gamers attempt to quantify qualities (such as morale, courage and resourcefulness) that the critics say defy quantification.

1973 J. Dunnigan in Strategy Tactics Mag. July 44/2 We reach some 50,000 gamers now (making allowance for non-gamers who read the magazine and the thousands of gamers on our mailing list who do not subscribe).

1992 Dragon Mag. Feb. 48/2 The Eye of Traldar was designed to help entry-level gamers get started with the basics of adventuring in the D&D game.

2009 Leader-Post (Regina, Sask.) (Nexis) 27 Apr. (City & Province section) a3 A gamer since 1976, he was initially drawn to war games as a history buff.

b. A person who plays video, computer, etc., games, esp. habitually.

ΚΠ

1977 Analog Sci. Fiction/Sci. Fact Sept. 15 This group included more than 150 men and women war gamers, role players, computer gamers, general game players and even non game players.

1981 N.Y. Times 21 Nov. 12/4 Gamers don't mind all that much since it's a fine home arcade as it stands.

1983 Pop. Mech. Apr. 84/1 Many fine details all add up to a worthwhile new addition to the gamer's choice of possibilities.

1995 Family PC Dec. 70/1 (advt.) An adventure game with as much intrigue and brain-twisting challenge as any hard-core gamer has..tackled.

2010 L. Green Internet viii. 152 Many avid gamers and fan fiction writers have grown up alongside the internet.

4. North American Sport (colloquial). (a) A person, esp. an athlete, known for consistently making a strong effort; (b) a player who performs better in actual games than in practices.

ΚΠ

1977 Washington Post 10 Sept. c9/1 She doesn't say anything because she doesn't like to have any excuses. She's a gamer.

1981 Wisconsin State Jrnl. 30 Aug. (Football '81 section) 3/3 The Mondovi sophomore probably could be catalogued as a ‘gamer’ who finds it difficult to motivate himself in practice.

1987 G. Carter & J. Hough Dream Season iii. 34 He's..a ‘gamer’, which means he gives his all, he plays with a certain courage.

1993 Hamilton (Ont.) Spectator (Nexis) 19 June d/11 Once we got into the final..and got up 3–1, I think they realized we were gamers.

2006 L. Olson & D. Fisher Lute! xii. 302 He was a gamer, meaning that he wasn't our hardest worker in a practice situation. He just wanted to play.

2012 R. Negron & S. Cook Yankee Miracles iv. 133 Thurman was such a gamer, though; you could never tell if he was upset about his injuries.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	gamer
释义	gamern. Brit. /ˈɡeɪmə/, U.S. /ˈɡeɪmər/ Forms: α. late Middle English– gamer. β. 1500s gamener, 1500s–1600s gamner. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: game n., -er suffix¹; game v., -er suffix¹. Etymology: Partly < game n. + -er suffix¹, and partly < game v. + -er suffix¹. With the β. forms compare α. forms at game n. and α. forms at game v.Earlier currency (in uncertain meaning) may be implied by the surname of Johannes le Gamer , listed in a Close Roll of 1248 as one of three men detained in connection with a death (for a possible parallel, compare the surname Leyker , probably < lake v.¹). 1. A person who takes part in a game, pastime, or sport; (frequently) spec. a person who plays games for stakes, a gambler. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > [noun] > player of games of chance tavlereOE playera1387 gamera1450 adventurer1474 gamester1549 come you seven1605 tableman1608 knight of the elbow1705 sitter1748 gambler1784 gamestress1828 playman1844 sport1856 spieler1859 punter1860 tiger-hunter1896 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > athletics > [noun] > athlete gamer1564 athletic1682 athlete1822 gymnasiarch1825 weekend athlete1941 thin-clad1947 Olympian1977 α. a1450 in F. W. Willmore Hist. Walsall (1887) 167 That who soevyr suffer eny dise-player, carder, tenys player, or other unliefull gamer, to use unlifull games in their house, to lese for..suche defaute vi s. viii d. 1546 T. Langley tr. P. Vergil Abridgem. Notable Worke ii. viii. f. lxiii He that cast it leyed doune a penye or so much as the gamers were agreed on. 1570 A. Golding tr. D. Chytræus Postil 73 These [exercises] were called the naked Games, bycause the Gamers exercised themselues naked in those games. 1654 J. Parnell Tryal of Faith 4 All you scoffers and scorners, & backbiters, and revilers, and extortioners, and whoremongers, & envious ones, & Gamers, and sporters..are all shut out from the true faith. 1845 Symbol June 265 The gamer is farther from restoration even than the drunkard, because what he does he does in the light of sobriety and reason. 1881 A. S. Wolf Pictures & Portraits Foreign Trav. 239 The gamers devote their most subtle intellect to the work [of playing trente et quarante]. 1930 R. A. Taylor Invitation Renaissance Italy viii. 191 The Mercato Vecchio..was the heart of the people—crowded with shops, merchants, idlers, gamblers, handmaids, courtiers, beggars, wastrels, gamers. 1950 Clearing House 24 518/2 There was no sadistic triumph of winner over loser, no jealous heartburning, no gamer's lust for easy riches. 1991 Pro Football Weekly Preview Oct. 173/1 He is a true gamer who responds when the game is on the line and the clock is winding down. 2006 S. Kirkpatrick Revenge T. Eakins xlvi. 439 The immensely popular sport of ‘ratting’..where gamers threw formidable river rats into pens with pit bulls. β. 1509 A. Barclay Brant's Shyp of Folys (Pynson) f. clvii^v Suche ar great gamners hauynge small substance.1563 Abp. M. Parker Articles §11 Whether your Persons, Vicars, and Curates be common gameners.1564 T. Palfreyman Baldwin's Treat. Moral Philos. (new ed.) ii. v. f. 82^v The gamner [so in later eds. to 1600; 1605, 1610 gammer, 1620 gamer] breketh his leg in dauncing..his arme his shoulder or his necke wrastling.1579 in Court Leet Rec. Manch. (1884) I. 206 For the severe punishment of commen drunkards vnlawfull Bowlers and other vnlawefull gamners. 2. A person who hunts game. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > hunter > [noun] huntc1000 huntera1325 cacherec1340 pricasourc1387 waithmanc1425 chaser1470 huntsman1567 pricker1575 Nimrod1623 venator1656 fieldmana1683 sportsman1699 coureur de bois1700 sporting parson1757 chasseur1796 jäger1823 shikari1827 venerer1845 hunting-man1859 gamer1887 hunterman1891 veldman1895 1887 Sci. Amer. 15 Jan. 37 [Labrador] certainly deserves the attention of gamers, fishers [etc.]. 1921 Pop. Educator Nov. 155/2 Ye goodly brethren, Standish be a goodly shot. I vote he be among ye gamers. 2008 J. Shay Savannah Classic Desserts ii. 42 Chef Latture seeks out ingredients..from farmers, gamers, fishermen, and dairy producers close at hand. 3. a. A participant in a war-game or role-playing game; a player or creator of such games. Cf. war-gamer n. at war n.¹ Compounds 4.In the context of computer-based role-playing games, often not distinguishable from sense 3b. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > table game > other table games > [noun] > war game > player kriegsspieler1891 war-gamer1967 gamer1969 1969 N.Y. Times 1 July 43/1 With manuals, rules, computers, umpires and imagination..the gamers attempt to quantify qualities (such as morale, courage and resourcefulness) that the critics say defy quantification. 1973 J. Dunnigan in Strategy Tactics Mag. July 44/2 We reach some 50,000 gamers now (making allowance for non-gamers who read the magazine and the thousands of gamers on our mailing list who do not subscribe). 1992 Dragon Mag. Feb. 48/2 The Eye of Traldar was designed to help entry-level gamers get started with the basics of adventuring in the D&D game. 2009 Leader-Post (Regina, Sask.) (Nexis) 27 Apr. (City & Province section) a3 A gamer since 1976, he was initially drawn to war games as a history buff. b. A person who plays video, computer, etc., games, esp. habitually. ΚΠ 1977 Analog Sci. Fiction/Sci. Fact Sept. 15 This group included more than 150 men and women war gamers, role players, computer gamers, general game players and even non game players. 1981 N.Y. Times 21 Nov. 12/4 Gamers don't mind all that much since it's a fine home arcade as it stands. 1983 Pop. Mech. Apr. 84/1 Many fine details all add up to a worthwhile new addition to the gamer's choice of possibilities. 1995 Family PC Dec. 70/1 (advt.) An adventure game with as much intrigue and brain-twisting challenge as any hard-core gamer has..tackled. 2010 L. Green Internet viii. 152 Many avid gamers and fan fiction writers have grown up alongside the internet. 4. North American Sport (colloquial). (a) A person, esp. an athlete, known for consistently making a strong effort; (b) a player who performs better in actual games than in practices. ΚΠ 1977 Washington Post 10 Sept. c9/1 She doesn't say anything because she doesn't like to have any excuses. She's a gamer. 1981 Wisconsin State Jrnl. 30 Aug. (Football '81 section) 3/3 The Mondovi sophomore probably could be catalogued as a ‘gamer’ who finds it difficult to motivate himself in practice. 1987 G. Carter & J. Hough Dream Season iii. 34 He's..a ‘gamer’, which means he gives his all, he plays with a certain courage. 1993 Hamilton (Ont.) Spectator (Nexis) 19 June d/11 Once we got into the final..and got up 3–1, I think they realized we were gamers. 2006 L. Olson & D. Fisher Lute! xii. 302 He was a gamer, meaning that he wasn't our hardest worker in a practice situation. He just wanted to play. 2012 R. Negron & S. Cook Yankee Miracles iv. 133 Thurman was such a gamer, though; you could never tell if he was upset about his injuries. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1450
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