| 单词 | evens and odds |
| 释义 | > as lemmasevens and (also or) odds d. evens and (also or) odds (also even and odd, even or odd): any of various games of chance, esp. a guessing game involving objects concealed in a player's hand; = odds and (also or) evens at odd n.1 1b. Also figurative. †to go even or odd: to play such a game as a means of determining something (obsolete).See also earlier by evens and odds at evens n. 1a. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > other games of chance > [noun] even or odd1538 love1585 Jack-in-the-box?1593 under-hat1629 pluck-penny1643 morra1659 catch-dolt1674 shuffle-cap1712 fair chance1723 E O1751 teetotum1753 rondo1821 cut-throat1823 hop-my-fool1824 odds and evens1841 spin-'em-round1851 halfpenny under the hat1853 racehorses1853 fan-tan1878 tan1883 pakapoo1886 legality1888 petits chevaux1891 pai gow1906 boule1911 put and take1921 society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > play games of chance [verb (intransitive)] play1340 game1529 nick1611 to cast a chancea1628 to go even or odd1658 gamble1757 gaff1819 buck1849 spiel1859 1538 T. Elyot Dict. Par impar, a game that children vsed, called euen or odde. c1555 Manifest Detection Diceplay sig. Av The names of Dyce...A bale of long dyce for euen and odde. 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Pari dispari, euen and odde, a kinde of play so called. 1658 J. Goodwin Triumviri xvi. 220 I dare not play at even and odd with him in the dark. 1681 W. Robertson Phraseologia generalis (1693) 551 To play at even or odd. 1710 Brit. Apollo 5–7 Apr. A...Challenges B. to go even or odd with him for a..Sum of Money. 1740 C. Cibber Apol. Life C. Cibber i. 13 Socrates cou'd take pleasure in playing at Even or Odd with his Children. 1742 H. Fielding & W. Young tr. Aristophanes Plutus iv. i. 79 We Servants now play at Even and Odd with Golden Staters. 1801 J. Strutt Glig-gamena Angel-ðeod iv. iv. 289 Even or Odd is another childish game of chance well known to the ancients. 1833 Belfast News-let. 12 July It was a quite common thing for them to toss up for a score of dollars, or to play ‘evens or odds’ for a handful or a pocketful at a time. 1843 E. A. Poe Purloined Let. in Wks. (1850) I. 271 I knew one [schoolboy]..whose success at guessing in the game of ‘even and odd’ attracted universal admiration. 1907 Baroness Orczy In Mary’s Reign i. i. 13 There were the trestles where one could play at ball and knucklebone, or chance and mumchance; another, where evens and odds and backgammon proved tempting. 1965 N.Y. Times 28 Nov. 95/2 The ‘quiet Tommy Dodd’ that Jack won't join in is Cockney rhyming slang for a coin-spinning gambling game called ‘even and odd’. 1985 B. Barclay Last Echo i. 22 Ernst the gambler looks for a game of even and odd. 2010 Lockhart (Texas) Post-Register 22 July 4 b Play evens and odds with your fingers. < as lemmas |
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