| 单词 | word-making and word-taking |
| 释义 | > as lemmasword-making and word-taking 2. More fully word-making and word-taking. A game played with lettered cards, in which players compete to form anagrams. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > table game > other table games > [noun] > word games word-making and word-taking1879 lexicon1932 Scrabble1950 1879 ‘L. Hoffmann’ Drawing-room Amusem. ii. 54 Another game, known as ‘Word-making’. 1884 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 5 July 2/2 (advt.) Word Making and Word Taking. 1s 6d each. 1893 Jrnl. Amer. Folklore 6 227 A teacher in a young ladies' school in Salem devised a game of letters which has since become popular under the various names of ‘Spelling Puzzle’, ‘Word Making and Word Taking’, ‘War of Words’, ‘Anagrams’, ‘Logomachy’, ‘Words and Sentences’, etc. 1935 Encycl. Sports, Games & Pastimes 396/1 The games played with these [cardboard] letters are very numerous. Word making and word taking may be mentioned first. 1952 G. Raverat Period Piece xii. 243 Our chief intellectual exercise was the Letter Game; Word-making and word-taking. 1980 L. Lewis Private Life of Country House ii. 20 My mother..scattered on the floor the cardboard letter squares from a game called ‘Wordmaking and Wordtaking’. 2002 Manch. Guardian Weekly 18 Sept. 20 I recently came across an old parlour game called word making, word taking, which appears to be a precursor to Scrabble. < as lemmas |
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