gamblern.

Brit.

/ˈɡamblə/, U.S.

/ˈɡæmblər/

Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymons: game v., game n., -er suffix¹.

Etymology: Ultimately < either a derivative or a variant of either game v. or game n. + -er suffix¹; compare gamer n. and forms at that entry. Compare later gamble v. and see discussion at that entry, and compare also gambling adj. and gambling n.

†1. A swindler, a cheat, a trickster; spec. (a) = money-dropper n. at money n. Compounds 2; (b) a person who cheats at cards, dice, etc.; a sharper. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > defrauder or swindler > [noun] > confidence trickster > types of

ring-chopper1575

ring-faller1575

guinea-dropper1710

gambler1735

money-dropper1737

ring-dropper?1780

pigeon dropper1858

bunco-steerer1875

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

butter1474

rooka1568

steal-counter1588

nicker1669

sharper1681

tat-monger1688

gambler1735

blackleg1767

gouger1790

sharp1797

tatsman1825

leggism1843

spieler1859

sniggler1887

1735 Proc. Old Bailey 2 July 88/1 The Prisoner has been a Gambler..for several Years past... A Gambler is one of the Modern Cant Names for a Money Dropper.

1747 Gentleman's Mag. Jan. 35/2 Composed of gamesters, commonly call'd gamblers, players, women of the town.

1756 H. Fielding in Gentleman's Mag. 26 565 Another set of gamblers..call'd duffers..invite you to go down some alley, and buy some cheap India handkerchiefs.

1762 O. Goldsmith Life R. Nash 133 Countrymen are deceived by gamblers, at a game called Pricking in the Belt, or the Old Nob.

1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue High Jinks, a gambler at dice, who, having a strong head, drinks to intoxicate his adversary, or pigeon.

1797 Sporting Mag. 9 315 Low gamblers, ring droppers, sharpers and thieves of every description.

1824 Hist. Gaming Houses 16 Those pestiferous hordes of gamblers, black-legs, and sharpers.

2. A person who plays games for stakes, as cards, dice, etc., or bets on the outcome of particular events, e.g. the result of a race or other sporting contest; a person who gambles for money or other stakes, esp. habitually. Cf. earlier gamester n. 1a.In early use almost always with pejorative connotations of extravagance, immorality, etc., and hence sometimes difficult to distinguish from sense 1.

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

1784 J. King Cook's Voy. Pacific III. v. vii. 144 It is very remarkable that the people of these islands are great gamblers. They have a game very much like our draughts.

1824 J. Mactaggart Sc. Gallovidian Encycl. 36 When one of the gamblers stands, that is to say, will play.

1884 Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 22 Nov. 6/5 For some weeks the newspapers here have waged a war of extermination against gamblers, confidence men, thieves and others of like ilk.

1915 Washington Post 2 May ii. 2/4 These fellows, professional gamblers, had gotten me in between them, designing to raise and reraise each other..until I was skinned of every cent I had.

1965 N. Gulbenkian Pantaraxia viii. 152 Although I was not a gambler, I did buy a ticket in the first Irish Sweep.

1981 K. Vonnegut Palm Sunday (1982) v. 101 She studied magazines the way gamblers study racing forms.

2004 Independent 11 Nov. 36/1 Casino owners..rely on a carefree ‘Sin City’ image to attract tourists and gamblers.

3. A person who takes risks in the hope of gaining some advantage, benefit, or success.Frequently with somewhat negative connotations, typically of irresponsibility or irrationality, as distinct from more neutral or positive terms, as risk-taker and speculator.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > [noun] > risk > action of taking risks > one who

adventurerc1485

ventureling1562

bonaventure1598

boneventor1643

risker1678

gambler1838

brinkman1956

1838 A. De Morgan Ess. Probabilities 102 A gambler (meaning a bold venturer, which the term commonly implies) ceases to be such when he makes his stakes bear a proper proportion to his capital.

1891 Daily News 12 May 4/7 These ingenious speculators, ‘these gamblers miscalled statesmen’, to quote Professor Tyndall's phrase.

1932 E. Wilson Devil take Hindmost ix. 104 The local banks have failed through the speculations of some fool gambler.

1990 M. Levine Deep Cover ix. 242 He was a gambler unafraid of incurring bad press for a principle.

2009 R. T. Billingsley Devil is Lie 288 ‘Not a gambler. A big risk taker,’ he clarified.

Compounds

gambler's fallacy n. (also gamblers' fallacy) the fallacy that a particular outcome of one of a series of repeated, statistically independent trials is less likely if that same outcome has already occurred frequently, or more likely if it has occurred infrequently.

ΚΠ

1938 Philos. Sci. 5 58 The subject matter no longer is the specious present, or empty time, concepts that may properly enlist the psychologist's interest but are no more significant to the theory of time than..the gambler's fallacy is to the theory of probability.

1972 Jrnl. Amer. Statist. Assoc. 67 93/1 Analyses of data..have revealed a tendency for subjects to predict the alternative event with increasing probability during a run of a given event, apparently a manifestation of something akin to the ‘gambler's fallacy’.

2003 Financial Times 25 Jan. (Money Guide section) 8/1 Were these same observers playing roulette, they would be suffering from the well-known ‘gamblers' fallacy’ that assumes three reds must be followed by a black.

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

单词	gambler
释义	gamblern. Brit. /ˈɡamblə/, U.S. /ˈɡæmblər/ Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymons: game v., game n., -er suffix¹. Etymology: Ultimately < either a derivative or a variant of either game v. or game n. + -er suffix¹; compare gamer n. and forms at that entry. Compare later gamble v. and see discussion at that entry, and compare also gambling adj. and gambling n. †1. A swindler, a cheat, a trickster; spec. (a) = money-dropper n. at money n. Compounds 2; (b) a person who cheats at cards, dice, etc.; a sharper. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > defrauder or swindler > [noun] > confidence trickster > types of ring-chopper1575 ring-faller1575 guinea-dropper1710 gambler1735 money-dropper1737 ring-dropper?1780 pigeon dropper1858 bunco-steerer1875 society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > [noun] > player of games of chance > cheat or swindler butter1474 rooka1568 steal-counter1588 nicker1669 sharper1681 tat-monger1688 gambler1735 blackleg1767 gouger1790 sharp1797 tatsman1825 leggism1843 spieler1859 sniggler1887 1735 Proc. Old Bailey 2 July 88/1 The Prisoner has been a Gambler..for several Years past... A Gambler is one of the Modern Cant Names for a Money Dropper. 1747 Gentleman's Mag. Jan. 35/2 Composed of gamesters, commonly call'd gamblers, players, women of the town. 1756 H. Fielding in Gentleman's Mag. 26 565 Another set of gamblers..call'd duffers..invite you to go down some alley, and buy some cheap India handkerchiefs. 1762 O. Goldsmith Life R. Nash 133 Countrymen are deceived by gamblers, at a game called Pricking in the Belt, or the Old Nob. 1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue High Jinks, a gambler at dice, who, having a strong head, drinks to intoxicate his adversary, or pigeon. 1797 Sporting Mag. 9 315 Low gamblers, ring droppers, sharpers and thieves of every description. 1824 Hist. Gaming Houses 16 Those pestiferous hordes of gamblers, black-legs, and sharpers. 2. A person who plays games for stakes, as cards, dice, etc., or bets on the outcome of particular events, e.g. the result of a race or other sporting contest; a person who gambles for money or other stakes, esp. habitually. Cf. earlier gamester n. 1a.In early use almost always with pejorative connotations of extravagance, immorality, etc., and hence sometimes difficult to distinguish from sense 1. 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 1784 J. King Cook's Voy. Pacific III. v. vii. 144 It is very remarkable that the people of these islands are great gamblers. They have a game very much like our draughts. 1824 J. Mactaggart Sc. Gallovidian Encycl. 36 When one of the gamblers stands, that is to say, will play. 1884 Boston (Mass.) Jrnl. 22 Nov. 6/5 For some weeks the newspapers here have waged a war of extermination against gamblers, confidence men, thieves and others of like ilk. 1915 Washington Post 2 May ii. 2/4 These fellows, professional gamblers, had gotten me in between them, designing to raise and reraise each other..until I was skinned of every cent I had. 1965 N. Gulbenkian Pantaraxia viii. 152 Although I was not a gambler, I did buy a ticket in the first Irish Sweep. 1981 K. Vonnegut Palm Sunday (1982) v. 101 She studied magazines the way gamblers study racing forms. 2004 Independent 11 Nov. 36/1 Casino owners..rely on a carefree ‘Sin City’ image to attract tourists and gamblers. 3. A person who takes risks in the hope of gaining some advantage, benefit, or success.Frequently with somewhat negative connotations, typically of irresponsibility or irrationality, as distinct from more neutral or positive terms, as risk-taker and speculator. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > [noun] > risk > action of taking risks > one who adventurerc1485 ventureling1562 bonaventure1598 boneventor1643 risker1678 gambler1838 brinkman1956 1838 A. De Morgan Ess. Probabilities 102 A gambler (meaning a bold venturer, which the term commonly implies) ceases to be such when he makes his stakes bear a proper proportion to his capital. 1891 Daily News 12 May 4/7 These ingenious speculators, ‘these gamblers miscalled statesmen’, to quote Professor Tyndall's phrase. 1932 E. Wilson Devil take Hindmost ix. 104 The local banks have failed through the speculations of some fool gambler. 1990 M. Levine Deep Cover ix. 242 He was a gambler unafraid of incurring bad press for a principle. 2009 R. T. Billingsley Devil is Lie 288 ‘Not a gambler. A big risk taker,’ he clarified. Compounds gambler's fallacy n. (also gamblers' fallacy) the fallacy that a particular outcome of one of a series of repeated, statistically independent trials is less likely if that same outcome has already occurred frequently, or more likely if it has occurred infrequently. ΚΠ 1938 Philos. Sci. 5 58 The subject matter no longer is the specious present, or empty time, concepts that may properly enlist the psychologist's interest but are no more significant to the theory of time than..the gambler's fallacy is to the theory of probability. 1972 Jrnl. Amer. Statist. Assoc. 67 93/1 Analyses of data..have revealed a tendency for subjects to predict the alternative event with increasing probability during a run of a given event, apparently a manifestation of something akin to the ‘gambler's fallacy’. 2003 Financial Times 25 Jan. (Money Guide section) 8/1 Were these same observers playing roulette, they would be suffering from the well-known ‘gamblers' fallacy’ that assumes three reds must be followed by a black. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1735
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