| 单词 | brag-party |
| 释义 | > as lemmasbrag-party a. A card game, essentially identical with the modern game of ‘poker’. The name is taken from the ‘brag’ or challenge given by one of the players to the rest to turn up cards equal in value to his. See also quotations. Also attributive, as in brag-party. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > poker > [noun] > varieties of vaunt1598 brag1734 draw poker1847 penny ante1855 freeze-out1856 draw1857 straight poker1864 stud poker1864 mistigris1875 highball1878 whisky-poker1878 stud-horse poker1881 stud horse1882 stud1884 showdown poker1892 show poker1895 red dog1919 showdown1927 strip-poker1929 manilla1930 Hold 'Em1964 Texas Hold 'Em1968 pai gow poker1985 1734 R. Seymour Compl. Gamester 20 The main Thing by which the second Stake is to be won, is called the Brag, which..gives the Game its Denomination. 1749 H. Walpole Let. 23 Mar. in Lett. to H. Mann (1833) II. 287 Methodism is more fashionable than anything but brag; the women play very deep at both. 1822 Encycl. Brit. (at cited word) A pair of aces is the best brag, a pair of kings the next, and so on. 1855 ‘G. Eliot’ in J. W. Cross George Eliot's Life (1885) I. 356 One night we attempted ‘Brag’ or ‘Pocher.’ 1859 J. Lang Wanderings in India 16 Two young gentlemen were victimized last night at the brag party. < as lemmas |
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