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Scrabble, n.2|ˈskræb(ə)l|
Also scrabble.
a. The proprietary name of a game in which players use tiles displaying individual letters to form words on a special board.
1950Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 10 Jan. 334/2 The Production and Marketing Corporation, Newtown, Conn... Scrabble. For Game including Board and Playing Pieces. Claims use since Dec. 1, 1948. 1953New Yorker 30 May 17/2 We present for your edification the history of Scrabble, the biggest thing in games since Monopoly and maybe the biggest thing ever. Ibid. 18/1 It was as if everyone alive were suddenly clamoring to play Scrabble. 1954Trade Marks Jrnl. 21 July 736/1 Scrabble... ‘Board games.’ Production and Marketing Corporation (a Corporation organised and existing under the laws of the State of Connecticut, United States of America; Merchants). 1957T. Girtin in Pick of Punch 150/1 My suspicions were first aroused while I was losing to my wife at ‘Scrabble’. 1959C. Spry Favourite Flowers iii. 25 For relaxation I sometimes play the spelling game of Scrabble and in consequence am wearing to ribbons the unwieldy volumes of the Shorter Oxford English Dictionary. 1962A. Sampson Anat. of Britain xxvii. 450 He likes going home early,..and plays bridge or scrabble in the evenings. 1971C. Bonington Annapurna South Face ix. 107 After the meal we played liar dice or Scrabble. 1978J. Matson Dear Osborne xxii. 151 Scrabble, Shove Ha'penny and Draughts indicate the levels of skills and activities.
b. attrib. and Comb.
1954Newsweek 26 Apr. 57 To help Scrabble fans, crossword-puzzle addicts, and other persons troubled for a word ending in ‘x’, ‘y’, or ‘z’, a ‘reverse’ dictionary has been compiled at the University of Massachusetts. 1956N. Streatfeild Judith ii. 117 Cynthia sprawled over the Scrabble board. 1960Sunday Express 11 Sept. 6/6, I leave it to Oscar, the Scrabble-playing cat, to dredge up obscure words. 1967Sci. Amer. Sept. 268/1 The Double-Crostic and games of the Scrabble type can be thought of as combinatorial play in which 26 elements (letters) are arranged into sets (words). 1977B. Garfield Recoil x. 103 Anna made a word on the Scrabble board and watched him enter the score.
Add: Hence ˈScrabbler n., one who plays Scrabble.
1954Orleans & Jacobson More Fun with Scrabble i. 7 This book is designed to give the Scrabbler more opportunities to enjoy his Scrabble board and tiles. 1978Times Lit. Suppl. 1 Dec. 1384/2 This innovative, intelligent and enjoyable dictionary will not serve for reading Hamlet or Burns..; scrabblers and crossword-puzzlers will find it uncooperative. 1989Los Angeles Times 20 May v. 13/5 Higher-rated Scrabblers—like poker's master bluffers—frequently commit parricide with impunity. |