| 单词 | demon patience |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdemon patience 6. British. Cards. More fully demon patience. Also with capital initial(s). A kind of one-pack patience game played with a tableau of four columns and a reserve of thirteen cards. Also occasionally: = racing demon n. at racing n.2 Compounds 2. In the United States known as Canfield (see Canfield n.). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > patience or solitaire > [noun] > varieties of spider1890 demon1893 Miss Milligan1899 Klondike1902 Canfield1912 poker patience1912 clock solitaire1919 pisha paysha1928 clock patience1937 1893 M. W. Jones Games of Patience 3rd Ser. ix. 19 Demon Patience. 1895 ‘J. S. Winter’ Magnificent Young Man xvii. 156 It is well called ‘Demon Patience’. I have often tried a dozen times to do it and failed each time. 1900 ‘L. Hoffmann’ Illustr. Bk. Patience Games 36 The Demon. 1918 H. G. Wells Joan & Peter xi. 388 A new card game, Demon Patience, a scrambling sort of game in which you piled on aces in the middle and cried ‘Stop!’ as soon as your stack was out. 1919 ‘K. Mansfield’ Let. 4 Oct. (1993) III. 7 You know how, when we get hungry, we are at last even unable to play demon for wanting the hashhammer to sound. 1936 ‘P. Quentin’ Puzzle for Fools xii. 95 I began to wonder whether she stole cards from a concealed pack... Her demon came out three times running. 1976 D. Parlett Patience Games 11/1 With minimal scope for skill, Demon is..unlikely to appeal to any but hard-bitten gamblers. 2009 P. Lively Family Album 113 Monopoly, badminton in the garden, demon patience, quoits in the garden, snakes and ladders, why not get out the table tennis things? < as lemmas |
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