charaden.

Brit.

/ʃəˈrɑːd/, U.S.

/ʃəˈreɪd/

Forms: 1700s charrade, 1700s chirard, 1700s– charade, 1700s– sharade.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French charade.

Etymology: < French charade, †charrade kind of riddle in which each syllable of a word, or a complete word or phrase, is enigmatically described or dramatically represented (1767 or earlier), game involving such riddles (although this is first attested slightly later than in English: 1777), apparently a specific semantic development of charade, †charrade idle conversation (1732 or earlier), probably < Occitan charrada conversation, chatter, itself < charrar to chatter, babble, of imitative origin + -ada -ade suffix.With Old Occitan charrar compare Catalan xerrar, xarrar to chatter (1502 as †scerrar), which shows the same imitative origin.

1. A kind of riddle in which each syllable of a word, or a complete word or phrase, is enigmatically described, or (now more usually) dramatically represented (in early use often more fully acted charade), sometimes in mime (more fully dumb charade); a game of presenting and solving such riddles. Also in plural with singular agreement: the game in which such riddles are presented, esp. dramatically. Also with other modifying words indicating variants of the non-dramatic form, as acrostic charade(s), numbered charade(s), etc.

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society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > puzzle > [noun] > other word puzzles

riddleOE

logogriph1598

rebus1605

name-device1631

telesticha1637

lipogram1711

charade1776

conundrum1790

logogram1820

anagrams?1860

acrostic1861

metagram1867

word square1867

verbarian1872

jumble-letters1899

word ladder1928

Double-Crostic1934

word search1957

hangman1961

society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > parlour and party games > [noun] > guessing game > specific

what's my thought like?1748

twenty questions1786

charade1826

how, when, and where1843

proverbs1855

hy-spy1876

game1937

I spy (with my little eye)1946

1776 Mrs. Boscawen in M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1862) 2nd Ser. II. 238 Pray send me some charrades..but I shall not guess them as you do.

1780 R. B. Sheridan School for Scandal i. i. 7 He..shall make a rebus or a chirard with any one.

1786 H. Walpole Let. 29 Oct. (1846) VI. 274 I am not clear but making or solving charades is as wise as anything we can do.

1826 Blackwood's Mag. May 558 (heading) Acted charades.

1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair li. 456 The amiable amusement of acting charades had come among us from France.

1852 L. Valentine Harry Brightsides Contents p. vi Game of charades.

1856 Illustr. London News 30 Aug. 233/2 (heading) Acrostic charades.

?1860 ‘H. Dalton’ Bk. Drawing-room Plays & Evening Amusem. i. i. 28 Mute or Dumb Charades. A ‘dumb’ charade? I could take part in that, the nervous or the shy are apt to exclaim.

1863 Boy's Yearly Bk. 193/1 Numbered Charade. My whole, a word of seven letters, is a name known to every reader; my 4, 5, 7, is the fairest offspring of my 7, 2, 5, 3; [etc.].

1870 in J. A. L. Kunz Charades en Action Pref. p. iii The taste for Acted Charades has much increased during the last few years.

1901 Royal Mag. Dec. 173/2 Charades is one of the kings of Christmas games.

1935 M. C. Bradbrook Themes & Convent. Elizabethan Trag. i. iii. 36 Action in a dumb show must be exaggerated to become intelligible, as anyone who plays in a dumb charade realises.

1943 A. G. Powell I can go Home Again 51 At the close of the school next spring, we had..charades, dialogues, recitations, and so forth.

1947 N.Z. School Jrnl. Feb. 30 Here is another numbered charade.

1981 G. Brandreth Puzzle Mountain 20/1 A Pictorial Acrostic Charade. Look at the pictures. The first four will give you all the letters you need. The next two are the acrostic charades.

1997 Games for Youth Groups 111/1 If the last person cannot guess the charade, Player 1 should perform it again.

2011 J. Schaefer Coming of Age in California—Eng. Style xxxiii. 337 Come and join in our fun and games next time we play. We have some pretty weird fun with Dumb Charades.

2. In extended use: something (esp. a dramatic entertainment) regarded as resembling a charade in some way, esp. in lacking sophistication. Later more usually: an (obvious) deception; an absurd, shallow pretence; a travesty.

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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > ridicule or mockery by specific means > [noun] > by imitation

mock1646

travestya1668

burlesquing1677

parody1730

burlesque1753

taking off1755

ludicrism1830

masquerade1847

caricaturing1859

charade1871

spoofing1920

piss-taking1967

1871 Athenæum 11 Mar. 313/2 I expect him [sc. a playwright] to show play-goers that elaborate charades are not comedies equal for their dialogue to those of Sheridan.

1878 ‘G. Eliot’ College Breakfast Party in Macmillan's Mag. July 163 The universe, I hold, is no charade, No acted pun unriddled by a word.

1892 Glasgow Herald 17 Nov. 7/3 The farcical operetta, ‘The Statute of Albemarle,’ produced to-day at the Trafalgar Square Theatre.., is little more than a mere charade.

1939 Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune 18 Mar. 4/1 One of their descendants, carrying on a pathetic charade of past power and glory tries to re-establish contact with..the lives of ordinary men.

1960 Financial Times 17 June 8/4 Holding up a letter.., Mr. Griffith-Jones said... ‘It is a mere charade—an attempt to show that this transaction was a normal property transaction.’

1986 ‘J. le Carré’ Perfect Spy v. 106 The committee..was a charade, it was a sham, it was makework.

2008 T. R. Smith Child 44 376 The pretence of secrecy was zealously maintained, an elaborate charade fooling no one.

Compounds

General attributive, etc., as charade-acting, charade clue, charade game, charade-player, etc.

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1826 C. A. Eaton Continental Adventures III. xliii. 107 The account of the charade acting..seemed to me too improbable to obtain credit from Mr. Lindsay, unsupported by other testimony.

1844 New Monthly Mag. 70 421 Time galloped gaily along..with the charade-players, and the day for which the exhibition was fixed was rapidly approaching.

1845 Tait's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 791/1 No such waltzing as his—no such charade-playing had ever been seen there.

1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair li. 458 The performers disappeared, to get ready for the second charade-tableau.

1850 C. M. Yonge Henrietta's Wish xii. 173 She explained in a droll manner the distress in which the charade actors stood.

1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda IV. viii. lxix. 345 Miss Gascoigne let fall something in our talk about charade-acting—for I went through some of my nonsense to please the young ones.

1925 D. H. Lawrence St. Mawr 7 Her quaint air of playing at being well-bred, in a sort of charade game.

1956 Long Beach (Calif.) Press-Telegram 6 July a8/3 ‘Pantomime Quiz’ returns to the network..with a good lineup of charade-playing stars.

1987 E. A. Griffin Making Friends (& Making them Count) i. 22 I've seen charade players wipe off an imaginary chalk board to try to get their teammates to blot out early misconceptions.

2000 B. Southam in F. J. Stafford Jane Austen's Emma (2007) 272 When a ‘ship’ enters the story, it is not one of Britain's ‘wooden walls’ but the answer to a charade clue, ‘the monarch of the seas!’.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	charade
释义	charaden. Brit. /ʃəˈrɑːd/, U.S. /ʃəˈreɪd/ Forms: 1700s charrade, 1700s chirard, 1700s– charade, 1700s– sharade. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French charade. Etymology: < French charade, †charrade kind of riddle in which each syllable of a word, or a complete word or phrase, is enigmatically described or dramatically represented (1767 or earlier), game involving such riddles (although this is first attested slightly later than in English: 1777), apparently a specific semantic development of charade, †charrade idle conversation (1732 or earlier), probably < Occitan charrada conversation, chatter, itself < charrar to chatter, babble, of imitative origin + -ada -ade suffix.With Old Occitan charrar compare Catalan xerrar, xarrar to chatter (1502 as †scerrar), which shows the same imitative origin. 1. A kind of riddle in which each syllable of a word, or a complete word or phrase, is enigmatically described, or (now more usually) dramatically represented (in early use often more fully acted charade), sometimes in mime (more fully dumb charade); a game of presenting and solving such riddles. Also in plural with singular agreement: the game in which such riddles are presented, esp. dramatically. Also with other modifying words indicating variants of the non-dramatic form, as acrostic charade(s), numbered charade(s), etc. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > puzzle > [noun] > other word puzzles riddleOE logogriph1598 rebus1605 name-device1631 telesticha1637 lipogram1711 charade1776 conundrum1790 logogram1820 anagrams?1860 acrostic1861 metagram1867 word square1867 verbarian1872 jumble-letters1899 word ladder1928 Double-Crostic1934 word search1957 hangman1961 society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > parlour and party games > [noun] > guessing game > specific what's my thought like?1748 twenty questions1786 charade1826 how, when, and where1843 proverbs1855 hy-spy1876 game1937 I spy (with my little eye)1946 1776 Mrs. Boscawen in M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1862) 2nd Ser. II. 238 Pray send me some charrades..but I shall not guess them as you do. 1780 R. B. Sheridan School for Scandal i. i. 7 He..shall make a rebus or a chirard with any one. 1786 H. Walpole Let. 29 Oct. (1846) VI. 274 I am not clear but making or solving charades is as wise as anything we can do. 1826 Blackwood's Mag. May 558 (heading) Acted charades. 1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair li. 456 The amiable amusement of acting charades had come among us from France. 1852 L. Valentine Harry Brightsides Contents p. vi Game of charades. 1856 Illustr. London News 30 Aug. 233/2 (heading) Acrostic charades. ?1860 ‘H. Dalton’ Bk. Drawing-room Plays & Evening Amusem. i. i. 28 Mute or Dumb Charades. A ‘dumb’ charade? I could take part in that, the nervous or the shy are apt to exclaim. 1863 Boy's Yearly Bk. 193/1 Numbered Charade. My whole, a word of seven letters, is a name known to every reader; my 4, 5, 7, is the fairest offspring of my 7, 2, 5, 3; [etc.]. 1870 in J. A. L. Kunz Charades en Action Pref. p. iii The taste for Acted Charades has much increased during the last few years. 1901 Royal Mag. Dec. 173/2 Charades is one of the kings of Christmas games. 1935 M. C. Bradbrook Themes & Convent. Elizabethan Trag. i. iii. 36 Action in a dumb show must be exaggerated to become intelligible, as anyone who plays in a dumb charade realises. 1943 A. G. Powell I can go Home Again 51 At the close of the school next spring, we had..charades, dialogues, recitations, and so forth. 1947 N.Z. School Jrnl. Feb. 30 Here is another numbered charade. 1981 G. Brandreth Puzzle Mountain 20/1 A Pictorial Acrostic Charade. Look at the pictures. The first four will give you all the letters you need. The next two are the acrostic charades. 1997 Games for Youth Groups 111/1 If the last person cannot guess the charade, Player 1 should perform it again. 2011 J. Schaefer Coming of Age in California—Eng. Style xxxiii. 337 Come and join in our fun and games next time we play. We have some pretty weird fun with Dumb Charades. 2. In extended use: something (esp. a dramatic entertainment) regarded as resembling a charade in some way, esp. in lacking sophistication. Later more usually: an (obvious) deception; an absurd, shallow pretence; a travesty. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > ridicule or mockery by specific means > [noun] > by imitation mock1646 travestya1668 burlesquing1677 parody1730 burlesque1753 taking off1755 ludicrism1830 masquerade1847 caricaturing1859 charade1871 spoofing1920 piss-taking1967 1871 Athenæum 11 Mar. 313/2 I expect him [sc. a playwright] to show play-goers that elaborate charades are not comedies equal for their dialogue to those of Sheridan. 1878 ‘G. Eliot’ College Breakfast Party in Macmillan's Mag. July 163 The universe, I hold, is no charade, No acted pun unriddled by a word. 1892 Glasgow Herald 17 Nov. 7/3 The farcical operetta, ‘The Statute of Albemarle,’ produced to-day at the Trafalgar Square Theatre.., is little more than a mere charade. 1939 Wisconsin Rapids Daily Tribune 18 Mar. 4/1 One of their descendants, carrying on a pathetic charade of past power and glory tries to re-establish contact with..the lives of ordinary men. 1960 Financial Times 17 June 8/4 Holding up a letter.., Mr. Griffith-Jones said... ‘It is a mere charade—an attempt to show that this transaction was a normal property transaction.’ 1986 ‘J. le Carré’ Perfect Spy v. 106 The committee..was a charade, it was a sham, it was makework. 2008 T. R. Smith Child 44 376 The pretence of secrecy was zealously maintained, an elaborate charade fooling no one. Compounds General attributive, etc., as charade-acting, charade clue, charade game, charade-player, etc. ΚΠ 1826 C. A. Eaton Continental Adventures III. xliii. 107 The account of the charade acting..seemed to me too improbable to obtain credit from Mr. Lindsay, unsupported by other testimony. 1844 New Monthly Mag. 70 421 Time galloped gaily along..with the charade-players, and the day for which the exhibition was fixed was rapidly approaching. 1845 Tait's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 791/1 No such waltzing as his—no such charade-playing had ever been seen there. 1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair li. 458 The performers disappeared, to get ready for the second charade-tableau. 1850 C. M. Yonge Henrietta's Wish xii. 173 She explained in a droll manner the distress in which the charade actors stood. 1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda IV. viii. lxix. 345 Miss Gascoigne let fall something in our talk about charade-acting—for I went through some of my nonsense to please the young ones. 1925 D. H. Lawrence St. Mawr 7 Her quaint air of playing at being well-bred, in a sort of charade game. 1956 Long Beach (Calif.) Press-Telegram 6 July a8/3 ‘Pantomime Quiz’ returns to the network..with a good lineup of charade-playing stars. 1987 E. A. Griffin Making Friends (& Making them Count) i. 22 I've seen charade players wipe off an imaginary chalk board to try to get their teammates to blot out early misconceptions. 2000 B. Southam in F. J. Stafford Jane Austen's Emma (2007) 272 When a ‘ship’ enters the story, it is not one of Britain's ‘wooden walls’ but the answer to a charade clue, ‘the monarch of the seas!’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1776
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