单词 | repique |
释义 | repiquen. Piquet. The winning of thirty points or more on cards alone before beginning to play (and before one's opponent begins to count), for which a further sixty points is awarded; an instance of this. Cf. pique n.2 Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > piquet > [noun] > score capot1651 pique1668 repique1668 picy1674 point1719 1668 W. Temple Let. to Ld. Arlington in Wks. (1731) II. 93 In their Audiences..the Cards commonly run high, and all is Picque and Repicque between them. 1707 C. Cibber School-boy i. 2 I..constantly receive my Rent in nothing but Repigues, Capotts, Gamons, and Doublets. 1771 H. Mackenzie Man of Feeling xxv His score was 90 to 35, and he was elder hand; but a momentous repique decided it in favour of his adversary. 1859 F. C. L. Wraxall tr. J. E. Robert-Houdin Mem. iv. 39 When the cards are dealt out, I will leave you to select the hand you think will enable you best to prevent a repique. 1882 Laws of Piquet Law xviii Carte blanche..scores first, and consequently saves a pique or a repique. 1938 Times 27 July 17/6 They had played countless games of piquet on top of a packing-case, and Clem had scored repique and capot twice running. 1972 P. O'Brian Post Captain x. 282 With repique and capot, that is a hundred and thirty. 2004 N. Katz Everything Card Games Bk. 45 If you score thirty points in hand alone, before playing any tricks and before your opponent scores any points, you win a ‘repique’ and score sixty points. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). repiquev. 1. Piquet. a. transitive. To score a repique against or win a repique from (one's opponent). Cf. pique v.1 1. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > piquet > [verb (transitive)] > score capot1651 pique1659 repique1659 rubicon1881 1659 H. Neville Shufling, Cutting, & Dealing 8 I was Pickquet the last, but am now repickqt. 1709 D. Manley Secret Mem. (ed. 2) II. 104 We agreed to play for fifty Pieces the Party; I repiqu'd him eight times in a dozen. 1756 World III. 297 He was most cruelly repiqued when he wanted but two points of the game. 1830 R. Hardie Hoyle made Familiar 49 It also piques and repiques the adversary, in the same manner as if those points were reckoned in any other way. 1910 Encycl. Brit. XXI. 638/2 A player who reckons nothing that hand as a penalty is not piqued or repiqued if he holds any cards which, but for the penalty, would have reckoned before his adversary reached thirty. 1983 P. O'Brian Treason's Harbour viii. 237 Thus spoiling Wray's splendid point of seven and septième to the king by one pip, repiquing him. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > piquet > [verb (intransitive)] > score pique1706 repique1706 1706 in H. Playford Wit & Mirth (new ed.) IV. 55 He piqu'd, and repiqu'd so oft. a. transitive. To repel, resist; to thwart. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > oppose [verb (transitive)] > resist withstandc888 withsake971 forstanda1000 to stand again ——OE withsetc1000 again-standOE to stand againOE warnc1175 wiþerhaldec1175 atstandc1220 astand1250 withsitc1300 sitc1325 asitc1330 (it) may well withc1395 reversea1400 resist1417 ofstandc1425 onstandc1425 gainstand?c1450 endure1470 obsista1475 repugna1513 recountera1525 occur1531 desist1548 impugn1577 obstrigillate1623 counter-stand1648 stem1675 repique1687 to make face to1807 to fight off1833 to stick up1838 bay1848 withstay1854 buck1857 1687 T. Beverley Expos. Song of Songs 27 Those enterweaves of Holy Order like The well-curl'd Locks, all falshood that Repique. 1726 C. Johnson Female Fortune-teller v. 90 How is this? in a Reverie, my Girl of Mettle; fairly repiqued, by Jupiter. 1773 K. O'Hara Golden Pippin i. 11 The Queen has got it,—I may go whistle—Piqued,—Repiqued,—Capotted! 1814 Ld. Byron Let. 27 Feb. (1974) III. 246 Buonaparte is not yet beaten; but has rebutted Blucher, and repiqued S[ch]wartzenburg. b. transitive. Used as an imprecation expressing annoyance with someone. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > malediction > oaths > [verb (transitive)] > oaths other than religious or obscene confoundc1330 founda1382 hanga1400 whip1609 rat1691 fire1730 repique1760 curse1761 blow1781 blister1840 sugar1886 1760 S. Foote Minor i. 32 Repique the Rascal. He promis'd to be here before me. Derivatives reˈpiquing n. Piquet (now rare) the scoring of a repique. ΚΠ 1840 Lady C. M. C. Bury Hist. Flirt i He was obstinately bent on repiquing. 1895 J. C. Snaith Dorothy Marvin vi The mysteries of sword and musket were discarded for those..of piqueing, repiqueing and capotting. 1910 P. G. Wodehouse Gentleman of Leisure xx. 226 It was evident that he was beginning to grasp the idea of the game. ‘What exactly is re-piquing?’ he asked. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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