| 单词 | dumb charade |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdumb charade 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. < as lemmas |
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