| 单词 | laugh and lie down |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslaugh and lie down laugh and lie down n. (also laugh and lay down) now historical a card game in which the object is to make pairs from the cards in one's hand and those on the table, a player unable to do this having to lay down his or her remaining cards; frequently used punningly with reference to sexual intercourse.For a detailed account of the rules see Francis Willughby's Book of Games (2003) 138-40. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > other card games > [noun] > others laugh and lie down1522 mack1548 decoyc1555 pinionc1557 to beat the knave out of doors1570 imperial1577 prima vista1587 loadum1591 flush1598 prime1598 thirty-perforce1599 gresco1605 hole1621 my sow's pigged1621 slam1621 fox-mine-host1622 whipperginnie1622 crimpa1637 hundred1636 pinache1641 sequence1653 lady's hole1658 quebas1668 art of memory1674 costly colours1674 penneech1674 plain dealing1674 wit and reason1680 comet1685 lansquenet1687 incertain1689 macham1689 uptails1694 quinze1714 hoc1730 commerce1732 matrimonya1743 tredrille1764 Tom come tickle me1769 tresette1785 snitch'ems1798 tontine1798 blind hazard1816 all fives1838 short cards1845 blind hookey1852 sixty-six1857 skin the lamb1864 brisque1870 handicap1870 manille1874 forty-five1875 slobberhannes1877 fifteen1884 Black Maria1885 slapjack1887 seven-and-a-half1895 pit1904 Russian Bank1915 red dog1919 fan-tan1923 Pelmanism1923 Slippery Sam1923 go fish1933 Russian Banker1937 racing demon1938 pit-a-pat1947 scopa1965 1522 J. Skelton Why come ye nat to Courte 928 Now nothynge but pay, pay, With, laughe and lay downe, Borowgh, cyte, and towne. 1591 J. Florio Second Frutes 67 What game doo you plaie at cards? At primero, at trump, at laugh and lie downe. 1594 J. Lyly Mother Bombie sig. Hv At laugh and lie downe, if they play, What Asse against the sport can bray? 1634 Noble Souldier i. sig. B2v Sorrow becomes me best. A suit of laugh and lye downe would weare better. a1672 F. Willughby Bk. of Games (2003) 138 From this laying downe of cards, & the rests laughing at him that lays them downe, comes the name Laugh & Ly Downe. 1713 Capt. Bland Northern Atalantis (ed. 2) 67 To any Game at Cards she'll not say nay, But Laugh and Lye down is her common play. 1764 T. Turner Diary 16 Nov. (1984) (modernized text) 309 We played some time at a game called ‘Laugh and lay down’. a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Laugh-and-lay-down, a childish game at cards. 1855 H. R. Helper Land of Gold 169 Some of the tavern-loungers seat themselves around the table, to take a friendly game of euchre, whist, seven-up, laugh-and-lay-down,..or matrimony. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses 194 He will never..play victoriously the game of laugh and lie down. 2004 J. E. Fender Our Lives, our Fortunes 32 Until I played agin Daniel O'Buck,..I alus thought Laugh and Lie Down wus truly a game o' chance. < as lemmas |
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