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playingn. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: play v., -ing suffix1. Etymology: < play v. + -ing suffix1.Earlier currency of the word is perhaps implied by the following (compare playstow n.):lOE Bounds (Sawyer 998) in D. Hooke Pre-Conquest Charter-bounds Devon & Cornwall (1994) 200 East up andlang þæs slædes to þære pleginstowe [perh. read plegingstowe]. society > leisure > entertainment > [noun] the mind > emotion > love > action of caressing > [noun] > instance of caressing > act or instance of amorous caressing society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > playing instruments > [noun] society > leisure > sport > [noun] > participation in the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > [noun] > fluttering or flickering society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > management of artillery > [noun] > discharge of artillery the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of squirting or issuing in a jet > [noun] > water the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > [noun] > emission > emission in a jet c1300 (?c1225) (Laud) (1901) 32 (MED) Murri þe gode king Rod on his pleing [v.r. pleyhinge]. c1330 (?a1300) (1886) l. 1744 (MED) Tristrem and y boaþe Beþ schent for our playing. a1400 in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell (1845) II. 57 (MED) This pleyinge hath thre partelis [read parcelis]: the firste is that we beholden in how many thingis God hath ȝyven us his grace passynge oure neȝtheboris. a1450 (Faust.) (1883) 884 (MED) Edgar rode ouȝt on his pleyenge In to a forest neyȝt to his place. c1450 (c1400) (1908) 78 (MED) The emperour..when hys wyf was dede..myche loued playnge. 1535 Ecclus. xlix. 1 Swete as hony.., and as the playenge of Musick. 1561 T. Hoby tr. B. Castiglione i. sig. B.iiv Some in rydinge, some in playnge at fence. 1601 Bp. W. Barlow 60 They call it the playeing of the Bit in the horse mouth. a1610 J. Healey tr. Epictetus (1636) 73 Avoid the playing of the Buffone, and procuring of others laughter. 1691 T. Hale p. lxiii A playing of the Tide too and fro. 1711 in (1885) App. v. 148 The action..mostly consisted in the playeing of the artillery. 1712 J. James tr. A.-J. Dézallier d'Argenville 193 Conveying the Water..for the playing of Jets. 1741 D. Garrick 24 Nov. (1963) I. 32 Mr Littleton..Said he never saw Such playing upon ye English Stage before. 1816 J. Austen I. xi. 194 All the eating and drinking, and sleeping and playing, which they could possibly wish for. View more context for this quotation 1868 H. Chadwick 34 We now come to base playing, and we propose to show that each position has its peculiar points of play. 1885 14 Nov. 645/2 First-class orchestral playing. 1908 E. M. Forster iii. 51 I could hear your beautiful playing, Miss Honeychurch, though I was in my room with the door shut. 1978 24 Nov. 1/1 Absenteeism, known as ‘larking’ in Yorkshire and ‘playing’ in Lancashire, is endemic in the mining industry. 1992 25 2 What gave the exhibit extra significance was the playing of a loop tape which presented dialogue involving the labourers who made the find. the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > cooking > [noun] > boiling the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > action of boiling > [noun] > state of being boiling (of liquid) ?c1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac (Paris) (1971) 519 On þe morne boyle it two playenges [?a1425 N.Y. Acad. Med. wellyngez; L. feruoribus] with þe same water with a litel persil. c1450 (Harl. 6398) (1973) f. 9v (MED) Eschaufe [yt] wel to þe pleiing [v.rr. plynge, sethynge], and þan take it from þe fire. 1465 Inventory in (2004) I. 325 A grete lede to brew v comb malte wyth ons plawyng. 1683 J. Pettus Ess. Metallick Words at Boyling, in ii Antiently Boyling was called Plawing. Compounds C1. See also playing card n.society > leisure > [noun] > a period of > day or night 1575 (rev. ed.) ii. Ee vij b Then woulde the quotient declare the true number of the working dayes, and not of playing dayes. a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) iv. i. 9 'Tis a playing day I see: how now Sir Hugh, no Schoole to day? View more context for this quotation 1830 R. H. Dana 11 He who had tended us in our playing days had gone down into the still vale of years, while we stood on the open hill-top in our vigour and prime. 1995 Oct. 112 (caption) In his Villa playing days..Brian Little was at the heart of the hair-hopping '70s. (Harl. 221) 404 Pleyynge garment, ludix. 1996 (Nexis) 1 Dec. 134 Bowral was where Sir Donald Bradman began his cricketing career in the 1920s and many of his playing garments are displayed. 1531 in T. Sharp (1825) 44 The seid pagyaunt, with the implements and playing geire belongyng to the same. 1935 23 Nov. 4/1 One of the reforms brought out by the Football Institute is ‘insistence upon the use of approved protective playing gear and equipment’. 2004 (Nexis) 16 June 43 Nasinu participated in the tournament with the help of Fiji FA and Tappoos, which sponsored the team with playing gear. 1957 Nov. 20/1 If it is already tracking properly, a sapphire should have a playing life of about 50 hours. 2004 (Nexis) 11 June 23 Out of their playing life, they probably remember a dozen or so really good gigs and Adelaide features prominently. 1578 T. White sig. C viiiv If it [sc. the Theatre] be not suppressed..it will make such a Tragedie, yt all London may well mourne..for it is no playing time..but time to pray rather. 1870 Apr. 768/1 The Easy Chair is of opinion that the prattling and playing time has passed, and that the Academy is now to be an actual force and inspiration in the development of universal art in America. 1887 Oct. 893/1 When less than ten minutes' playing-time remained, Yale was still successful and the score was 5 to 0 in her favor. 1990 Aug. 57/3 He is not sticking rigidly to albums conceived and issued in the days when vinyl had a limited playing time. 1523–4 in H. Littlehales (1905) 322 Mr parson gave to them a playng weke to make mery. 1892 2 Nov. 6/4 The desirability or otherwise of a ‘playing’ week at Christmas. 1992 Oct. 42/1 One dart fanatic was telling me that the sport costs him more money during the ‘close’ season than a normal playing week. C2. society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > board game > [noun] > board a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus (BL Add.) f. 250 Tabula is a playinge borde þat men pleyeþ on at þe dys [L. tabula alea in qua luditur] and oþere games. 1895 28 July 5 Pal number one has whisked the cards under the playing board and substituted a ‘stacked’ deck. 1983 (U.S. Patent Office) 8 Feb. tm176/2 Equipment including a playing board, die, rules of play, question and answer cards. society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > [noun] > playground 1804 W. Taylor in 2 370 If both sexes have separate playing-crofts. society > leisure > entertainment > [noun] > companion in amusement c1300 Childhood Jesus (Laud) 1003 in C. Horstmann (1875) 1st Ser. 35 Ȝware þe children miȝhten be..Þat weren mine pleiing fere? a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 357 (MED) He loueþ somdel her norice and here pleieng feres [v.r. pley feres], whiche þat soukeþ þe same melk þat þey soukeþ while they beeþ children. a1456 (?1417) J. Lydgate (1934) ii. 659 (MED) Now to forgone þin owen pleying feere..hit is to þe gret peyne. society > leisure > sport > place for sports or games > [noun] 1583–4 Eton Coll. Accts. in R. Willis & J. W. Clark (1886) I. 464 Trees..aboute the playinge fildes. 1736 H. Walpole (1820) I. 6 The playing fields at Eton. 1898 J. A. Gibbs 28 Pass on to Eton... Mark well the playing fields. 1979 R. Barnard III. 26 There were no playing-fields ethics in the lower reaches of Fleet Street. 1992 July 34/3 An economically-depressed kilometre-square patch of Halifax bounded by the harbour, Citadel Hill and the grassy playing fields of the Halifax Commons. the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > larger song birds > [noun] > family Ptilinorhynchidae (bower-bird) > bower of 1589 ‘Marphoreus’ sig. F1 The other..for a penie, may haue farre better by oddes at the Theater and Curtaine, and any blind playing house euerie day. 1603–4 Accts. Office of Works in (1977) X. 19 Mending of the little Tenniscourt plaieng howses. 1790 J. Huntingford 35 [In 1535] No person was to keep any open playing-house, or place for common bowling, dicing, carding, closh, tennis, or other unlawful game. 1840 J. Gould in 94 They are used by the birds as a playing-house or ‘run’, as it is termed. 1841 8 Feb. 3/2 Who knows..that we shall find ourselves playing partners with England! 1907 24 June 3/3 John C. Challoner was his playing partner, and made the next lowest score, having a net total of 89. 1950 28 416/2 Sex, age, and each player's estimate of his or her own skill at the game were the controlling factors in matching playing partners. 1996 29 Apr. 17/1 He highlighted his day with an eagle on the par-4 seventh hole—playing partner Keith Fergus also eagled the hole. the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > larger song birds > [noun] > family Ptilinorhynchidae (bower-bird) > bower of 1845 C. Darwin (ed. 2) vii. 125 Mr. Gould,..informs me, that the natives, when they lose any hard object, search the playing passages, and he has known a tobacco-pipe thus recovered. 1871 C. Darwin I. i. ii. 63 The Bowerbirds..tastefully ornamenting their playing-passages with gaily-coloured objects. society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > the theatre or the stage > a theatre > [noun] a1375 (c1350) (1867) 750 (MED) Þat preui pleyng place..Ioyned..to meliors chamber. ?c1475 (BL Add. 15562) f. 96v A playinge place, diludium. 1556 J. Olde tr. R. Gwalther f. 87v The plaieng place, which they call Theatrum Colosseum. 1608 in J. D. Marwick (1876) I. 296 In saying: God nor he be brunt in the playing place as Mergrat Park wes. 1852 W. J. Broderip 152 On visiting the cedar-brushes of the Liverpool range, he discovered several of these bowers or playing-places. 1996 47 566 Theatre historians should be looking at the traditional building practices employed on Cambridge playing-places..in order to account for the irregularities that have so puzzled the recent excavators of the Rose and Globe. the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > fact or condition of being mocked or ridiculed > [noun] > object of ridicule 1579 T. North tr. Plutarch 962 To make him a playing stocke in common playes. society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > board game > [noun] > board 1468 in J. D. Fudge (1995) 217 Item pro 2 douden pair playng tables valoris 10s. 1519 W. Horman xxxii. f. 282v I haue bought a pleyeng tabull: with .XII. poyntis on the one syde: and chekers on the other syde. 1639 in S. Tymms (1850) 180 I give vnto my sonne-in-law..my inlaid playeing tables. 1869 23 Jan. 61/3 Patents and Patent Claims... 85,539—Playing Table—Henry Schere, New York city. 1991 (Nexis) July 46 Down the hall from the lobby is the card room, where residents gather for informal card and board games... Wooden ladderback chairs with tie-on cushions surround mahogany playing tables. society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > [noun] (Harl. 221) 404 Pleyynge thynge, or thynge þat menn or chyldyr pley wythe, adluricum. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022). playingadj. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: play v., -ing suffix2. Etymology: < play v. + -ing suffix2. society > leisure > entertainment > [adjective] > engaged in amusement society > armed hostility > military equipment > operation and use of weapons > action of propelling missile > discharge of firearms > management of artillery > [adjective] > being discharged the world > matter > colour > variegation > iridescence > [adjective] OE (Corpus Cambr. 41) 26 Dec. 6 An plegende cild arn under wænes hweowol. c1330 (?a1300) (1886) l. 291 (MED) He tauȝt..euerich playing þede Old lawes and newe. ?a1425 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius iii. met. ii. 27 The pleyinge [L. ludens] bysynes of men. 1575 T. Churchyard f. 96v For to plant, som playing peeces thear A Mount was raysd, which kept the foe in fear. 1598 J. Florio A daintie mop, a playing babie. 1638 F. Junius iii. iv. 297 His pliant hands attended their severall charge: the left being somewhat advanced, did with divided fingers warble the strings: the right did in a playing gesture apply the sticke to the instrument, as ready to strike. 1695 R. Blackmore iii. 82 No Clouds, but those of curling Incense rise, By playing Zephirs tost about the Skies. 1701 J. Evelyn (1955) V. 453 A lively playing boy. 1756 T. Amory I. 375 Some sat by playing fountains. 1823 J. Galt II. vii. 61 Weel do I mind, when he was a playing bairn, that I first kent the blessing of what it is to hae something to be kind to. 1871 J. Ruskin in 24 Feb. (1898) 6/2 Turner has put the only piece of playing colour in all the picture into the reflections in this. 1889 W. Allingham iii. 50 The whispering harebell on the leas, And the forest-harp of the playing breeze. 1916 J. W. Riley ii. i. 329 (stage direct.) A playing fountain, at marge of which Amphine sits thrumming a trentoraine. 1989 (Yearbk.) 34/3 Here the ‘tottering zigzags’ of the playing children take the form of hesitant phrases and frequent changes of meter. the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > cooking > [adjective] > boiling or boiled the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > action of boiling > [adjective] (Harl. 221) 521 Wellynge, or boylynge of playynge [v.r. plawynge] pottys, ebullicio, bullicio. a1450 (a1400) (BL Add.) (1932) 670 Hote playande picche amanges þe peple ȝett. a1475 (Sloane) (1862) 37 (MED) In playand water þou kast hit schalle. 1552 R. Huloet Bubble, lyke plawing water,..scateo. Compounds society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > [noun] > game or match > a deal > type 1899 E. Œ. Somerville & ‘M. Ross’ iv. 90 We were in the first game..and I was holding a very nice playing hand. 1976 ‘Trevanian’ ii. 24 He has a fair playing hand but no meld to speak of. 2003 (Nexis) 1 July a37 North considered. He had a strong playing hand and adequate trump support now that partner had rebid hearts. society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > bridge > [noun] > actions or tactics > tricks or taking tricks 1959 T. Reese & A. Dormer 166 Playing tricks are tricks that a hand may reasonably be expected to take when playing in its own best trump suit. 1964 R. L. Frey & A. F. Truscott (Amer. Contract Bridge League) 430/2 Playing trick, an expected trick if the holder or his partner buys the contract. 1991 Mar. 98/2 An opening bid of five clubs or five diamonds promises eight playing tricks non-vulnerable and nine playing tricks vulnerable. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022). <  n.c1300 adj.OE |
