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ˈplay-game
A game of play; a piece of sport; an amusement, a sport; a plaything.
1598R. Barckley Felic. Man i. (1603) 62 They esteeme this our life to be but a play-game. 1632J. Hayward tr. Biondi's Eromena 30 A small Barke..that had beene rob'd by Pirates, and left as a play-game to the windes. 1697W. Dampier Voy. round World (1699) 496, I had been in many eminent Dangers before now,..but the worst of them all was but a Play-game in comparison with this. 1972Evening Telegram (St. John's, Newfoundland) 24 June 3/1, I won't be spending such a week as the one just past. All jokes aside, it has been no playgame. 1973Shooting Times & Country Mag. 7 July 21/1 To my way of thinking, anything easy to acquire is never valued for long and, compared to what it was in my younger days, fishing is now almost a playgame. |