gamblen.¹

Brit.

/ˈɡambl/, U.S.

/ˈɡæmbəl/

Forms: 1700s– gamble, 1900s– gambal; English regional (south-western) 1800s gambel (Suffolk), 1800s– gamel (south-western), 1800s– gammel (south-western); also Irish English (northern) 1900s gammel.

Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: gambrel n.

Etymology: Variant of gambrel n. Compare -le suffix.

1. = gambrel n. 2. Also more fully gamble joint. Now regional and rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > body or parts of horse > [noun] > leg > hock

cambrel?1523

hock1540

gambrel1601

gamble1703

chambrel1704

1703 London Gaz. No. 3970/4 Has had the Farcy on the near Leg behind..and has had a great Sore on that gamble Joynt.

1720 London Gaz. No. 5883/3 White Legs behind almost up to his Gambles.

a1876 E. Leigh Gloss. Words Dial. Cheshire (1877) 86 Gamble, the hough of a horse.

1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Gamble, the hock or elbow-joint of a hind-leg. Never applied to the entire leg..nor confined to horses. Properly the word applies to the strong tendon just above the joint.

1941 J. K. Rollinson Pony Trails in Wyoming iii. 37 With one hand, on the hoof or fetlock, and one on the gamble (gambrel).

2. More fully gamble stick. = gambrel n. 1.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > hook or frame for hanging meat

cambrelc1450

gambrel1547

butcher's hook1596

flesh-hook1596

cambren1656

shamble-hook1688

stage1715

meathook1771

progger1818

gamble1831

gallows1866

gammon1874

1831 N.-Y. Mirror 20 Apr. 339/1 He has left half the bristle on, and it hung all lopsided for the want of a gamble.

1876 Surrey Gloss. Gamble-stick, the crooked piece of wood used to hang up a pig or other slaughtered animal.

1893 G. E. Dartnell & E. H. Goddard Gloss. Words Wilts. Gamel, the piece of wood or iron used by butchers for extending or hanging a carcase.

1907 Hunter-Trader-Trapper Apr. 31/1 I tie binder twine to the middle of the gamble stick and hang over a limb.

1966 Weekly News (Auckland) 26 Jan. 39 My father already had the gallows ready, complete with ropes, pulleys and a ‘gamble’.

2004 R. Peck Teacher's Funeral xiv. 159 We hoisted the carcass up on the tripod and fixed the hind legs with the gamble stick.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

gamblen.²

Brit.

/ˈɡambl/, U.S.

/ˈɡæmbəl/

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: gamble v.

Etymology: < gamble v.

Originally colloquial.

a. A spell or bout of gambling. Also occasionally in on the gamble.

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the world > action or operation > doing > [noun] > spell or bout of action

turnc1230

heatc1380

touch1481

pluck?1499

push?1560

bout1575

yoking1594

pull1667

tirl1718

innings1772

go1784

gamble1785

pop1839

run1864

gang1879

inning1885

shot1939

1785 G. A. Bellamy Apol. Life II. lii. 186 We three had made a party for the evening, which was to commence early, that we might have a long gamble as he termed it.

1879 F. S. Bridges Round World in Six Months 138 Many English come here..to get fresh air and indulge in a gamble.

1887 H. R. Haggard Jess ii. 16 Her brute of a husband was away on the drink and gamble.

1896 Jrnl. Soc. Arts 13 Mar. 380/2 [They] would start work again the next morning for another year, with the prospect of another night's gamble at the end of it.

1942 J. Gardiner Let. Jan. in Class Apart (1992) 107/1 Darling I had a gamble on the ship and I won £3 and a bit more and the lads and I had a drink and got drunk with it on lager.

2010 M. Dare London to Las Vegas playing Roulette 97 The second day we went down the Boulder Highway to the Hoover Dam, stopping off for a quick gamble at the Railroad Cross casino.

b. An act of gambling a sum of money on a particular outcome; a wager, a bet, a ‘flutter’.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > betting > [noun] > bet

wager1548

bet1591

abetment1614

gamble1883

punt1965

1883 M. H. Hayes Indian Racing Reminisc. xi. 117 He..resolved to have a gamble on the steeplechase, although I entreated him to ‘leave well alone’.

1928 H. Lauder Roamin' in Gloamin' xix. 209 Our caddies were overjoyed at the success of our side because I think they had a gamble on with the other pair.

1957 R. Hoggart Uses of Literacy i. v. 115 Hence the plethora of gambles and flutters.

1989 U.S. News & World Rep. 6 Nov. 107/1 The sister security, called a score, entitles investors to capital gains above that limit. Scores, like options, are a gamble on future prices.

2002 M. Crick Boss (2003) xxi. 383 [He] saw drinking as the enemy, not gambling. He liked a gamble himself.

2. A venture, course of action, etc., undertaken even though it invites risk and uncertainty; a risky action undertaken with the hope of success.

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the world > existence and causation > causation > chance or causelessness > [noun] > hazard, venture, or gamble

adventurec1405

gamble1823

1823 W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 6 Sept. 598 This hop growing and dealing have always been a gamble.

1881 Sat. Rev. 9 July 40/2 Politics, in fact, are ‘a big gamble’.

1897 Westm. Gaz. 29 Apr. 4/2 Gold mines are necessarily a gamble.

1917 United Mine Workers Jrnl. 27 Dec. 26/2 If the bore is a gamble within known productive bounds, it is obviously much more so in territory which has never been tested.

1999 Stage 30 Sept. 14/2 Adults taking on the roles of children is often a gamble, and it does not pay off here.

2009 Daily Tel. 1 Sept. 23/1 Inviting Radiohead to close Reading festival was a bit of a gamble.

3. The fact or quality of being risky or involving an unavoidable element of chance; risk or uncertainty as a source of excitement.

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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > [noun] > risk > quality

hazardousness1651

riskiness1839

gamble1880

1880 Engin. & Mining Jrnl. 4 Sept. 160/2 It is the gamble that attracts them. They neither expect nor care much for a bonanza, except as an aid to the gamble.

1890 G. Saintsbury in New Rev. Feb. 141 The real point is the chance, the uncertainty, the gamble.

1924 J. Galsworthy White Monkey ii. iii, in Mod. Comedy (1929) 109 Take away the gamble, and life's a frost.

2009 C. Minor Hitler's Spy viii. 104 It was great fun; the risk, the gamble, the thrill you get from the bluff.

Phrases

Chiefly U.S. on a gamble: as a venture or undertaking unavoidably involving an element of risk and uncertainty; trusting to luck.

ΚΠ

1916 Creating Shipping Board (U.S. Senate Comm. on Commerce) 53 There are lots of them going into it on a gamble.

1924 C. E. Mulford Rustlers' Valley vi. 68 On a gamble he raised his sombrero.

2011 M. Swann Foreigners xxii. 206 She could do it on a gamble, hoping to get a job tonight, but that was really crazy.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

gamblev.

Brit.

/ˈɡambl/, U.S.

/ˈɡæmbəl/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: game v., game n.

Etymology: Ultimately < either game v. or game n.; the final -le may show that this word is a frequentative derivative (see -le suffix 3), or may have arisen as a variant of either α. forms at game v. or α. forms at game n., in either case apparently reflecting a form of either game v. or game n. with failure of Middle English lengthening in open syllables (compare forms at both entries); the -b- reflects subsequent development of an excrescent consonant. The related words gambling adj., gambling n., and gambler n. are all first attested somewhat earlier, and may have developed earlier than the verb.Compare earlier gameling n., which may reflect an intermediate step, although it apparently shows a long vowel in the first syllable. Eng. Dial. Dict. (1900) indicates variable vowel length for gameling ‘romping about’ in 19th-cent. use in Sussex and Hampshire. Compare also gammle occurring in the meaning ‘gamble’ in regional use in Yorkshire and in Ulster (although this could show a secondary development from gamble , rather than an older form), and also gamel ‘to gamble, to gambol’ and gamler ‘a gambler’ recorded in 19th-cent. use in Northumberland (see R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words II. (1893) 315). A related form may also be shown by the following:a1900 F. P. Thompson in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1900) II. 550/2 [Yorkshire] The yoong men go awaäy i' t'afternoon, a laäkin' at gam'lin'-sticks [glossed here as ‘the game of cricket’]. There is probably no direct connection with Middle High German gamel , variant of gamen game n., which survives in some modern varieties (especially in Switzerland); compare the derivatives Middle High German gämeln, German regional (Swiss) gammeln to make merry.

1. transitive (frequently in passive). With out of. To divest (a person) of something, esp. a sum of money, through gambling. Now rare.

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1753 Ess. on Deism 9 The Youth who so supinely permits himself to be cheated (or thus gambled) out of his Principles, becomes a Devotee to every Vice [etc.].

1838 R. M. Bird Peter Pilgrim II. 196 A scoundrelly fellow, who met my advances with extreme cordiality, and immediately gambled me out of all my money.

1862 Cornhill Mag. Nov. 645 The stranger will perhaps be cheated and gambled out of all his money, and then sent out of the house insulted as well as plundered.

1914 C. S. Thoms Working Man's Christ xii. 254 Our Father who art in heaven, remember in love and mercy the man I gambled out of fifty dollars to-day.

a. intransitive. To play games for stakes, as cards, dice, etc., or bet on the outcome of particular events, e.g. the result of a race or other sporting contest; to engage in gambling, esp. habitually or on a specified type of event. Formerly also: †to cheat at a gambling game; to be a sharper or swindler (cf. gambler n. 1) (obsolete). Also figurative.In early use almost always with pejorative connotations of extravagance, immorality, etc. N.E.D. (1898) noted ‘it would not ordinarily be applied to the action of playing for stakes of trifling amount, except by those who condemn playing for money altogether’.

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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > betting > bet [verb (intransitive)]

laya1300

to lay wedc1330

stake1530

wager1604

bet1609

gamble1757

sport1760

invest1852

punt1887

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

1757 London Mag. Apr. 160/2 This consideration, that great people..are..gambling perhaps with their own grooms,..is enough to make an Englishman forget himself.

1775 J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang. Gamble [printed Gamblet], to game, to cheat; to make a practice of gaming.

1786 R. Burns Twa Dogs xxii, in Poems 17 At Operas an' Plays parading, Mortgaging, gambling, masquerading.

1838 A. De Morgan Ess. Probabilities 101 It should seem as if we were thus told either not to gamble at all, or else to play incessantly.

1850 T. Carlyle Latter-day Pamphlets vi. 21 Gambling against the world for life or for death.

1897 Times 9 Jan. 7 As a husband Pierrot falls short of expectations... He drinks, he gambles, he stays out the greater part of the night.

1909 B. O'Hara From Figg to Johnson 160 He goes into retirement, travels extensively, gambles on the horses, loses his wealth.

1911 Lincoln (Nebraska) Evening News 26 Sept. 4/6 He and Mike Petaris, a Mexican, gambled for the clothes of the other in a railroad bunk car.

1956 N. Algren Walk on Wild Side i. 6 In a town where nearly everyone danced, swore and gambled, the only fun Fitz had left was getting his back up.

1989 S. MacGowan White City (song) in ‘The Pogues’ Peace & Love (record sleeve notes) Here the paddies and the frogs Came to gamble on the dogs.

2009 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 15 Jan. a10/2 The Chinese officials who gamble here lose mostly at baccarat, the game of choice in Macao.

b. intransitive. To behave in a way which exposes something valuable to risk, danger, or unnecessary uncertainty; to speculate or take risks, esp. recklessly. Frequently with in, with.

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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > face danger [verb (intransitive)] > risk oneself > run or take risks

dicec1440

to put one's finger in the fire1546

hazardc1550

venture1560

to jeopard a joint1563

to venture a joint1570

to run (also take) a (also the) risk (also risks)1621

danger1672

risk1767

gamble1802

to ride a tiger1902

to stick (also put) one's neck out1926

to lead with one's chin1949

to tickle the dragon('s tail)1964

1802 European Mag. Feb. 105/1 To make the bounty of Providence an object of speculation, and gamble with the first necessaries of life.

1828 Niles' Reg. 23 Aug. 419/2 A new race of merchant adventurers (in the modern acceptation of that word) comes forward to speculate, or rather, to gamble with the fortunes of others.

1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda II. iii. xxv. 151 He was almost in danger of forgetting that he was merely gambling in argument.

1884 Harper's Mag. Apr. 26 The evil effects of gambling in stocks and provisions.

1939 Rotarian June 36/2 I was game to gamble with public opinion.

1997 Arthritis Today Mar. 41/3 (advt.) With the stress, pollution, and viruses that plague us today, why gamble with your health?

c. intransitive. With on (also upon). To stake money or risk anything of value on the outcome of an event involving a large degree of chance or uncertainty, as a game of chance, a horse race or other sporting contest, a commercial enterprise, etc. Also in extended use.

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1804 W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. 2 235 Antijacobinism had..still some gay hopes to gamble upon, still some inkling to turn up a king.

1887 Jrnl. House of Representatives Michigan 23 Apr. 2 1514 In other words he gambled upon the lives of these paupers under his charge?

1925 E. F. Norton in E. F. Norton et al. Fight for Everest: 1924 194 And so a party starting from the North Col gambles on three suitable days running.

1954 T. S. Eliot Confidential Clerk ii. 64 I don't believe you ever gamble On anything that isn't a certainty.

1997 Daily Tel. 1 Apr. 13/2 Punters can gamble on the number of seats Labour will win.

d. intransitive. To take a chance that a desired result will be achieved or state of affairs be the case.

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the world > existence and causation > causation > chance or causelessness > chance [verb (intransitive)] > run a risk or take one's chance

to take one's chancec1325

to take penancec1400

to throw at allc1400

to buy a pig (in Scotl. a cat) in a poke1546

to throw the helve after the hatchet1546

to set (up) one's rest1579

to give the adventure1607

to make a shaft or a bolt of ita1616

to run a fortune1627

to run for luck1799

to go the vole1816

chance1863

to chance one's arm1889

to take a chance or chances1902

gamble1919

1919 Engin. & Contracting 24 Sept. 355/1 Those who were expected..to gamble that their costs would fall within a fixed contract price.

1948 Sun (Baltimore) 3 Dec. 14/2 Who wants to gamble that a passel of bureaucrats in a planned economy could have shown similar bounce in the face of adversity?

1977 Time 18 Apr. 53/2 Carter may be gambling that..he can tamp down the debate over the safety of nuclear power.

1993 Rugby World & Post May 28/2 The selectors are prepared to gamble that they still have the fire in their bellies and wind in their lungs.

2004 New Yorker 13 Sept. 29/3 Giuliani is gambling that well-watered memories of his 9/11 Churchillian moment..can overcome his record.

3. transitive. To lose or squander (money, property, etc.) by gambling. Usually with adverb or adverbial phrase, esp. away.

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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > betting > bet on [verb (transitive)] > lose

to play away1562

to play off1693

to race away1741

gamble1764

society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > gamble at a game [verb (transitive)] > lose by gaming

game1597

gamble1764

1764 W. Dodd Visitor II. xlvi. 23 Some folks had better be fighting than gambling away their money.

1836 W. Irving Astoria II. 290 They gamble away every thing they possess, even to their wives and children.

1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair lxiv. 585 When she got her money she gambled; when she had gambled it she was put to shifts to live.

1865 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. Rationalism II. vi. 257 Men who had gambled away their liberty.

1874 ‘H. Churton’ Toinette xii Loyd probably traded her off, perhaps gambled her off, in some drunken spree.

1901 G. W. James Indian Basketry iii. 26 After he had gambled away all his possessions, he left his home for some far away country in the hope of bettering his fortunes.

1986 M. Thompson Coaltown Blues 35 Why do you gamble our lives down the drain?

2004 P. Southern Craze viii. 57 They were..forever gambling the wives' housekeeping away.

4. transitive. To bet, wager (a sum of money, or other stake). Also more generally: to expose (something valuable) to risk or danger in the hope of gaining some advantage, benefit, or success. Frequently with on, specifying the outcome or event on which the stake is risked.

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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > betting > bet on [verb (transitive)] > bet (money, etc.)

laya1300

wed1362

to lay downc1430

setc1460

jeopardc1470

wage1484

holda1500

pary?a1505

to stake down1565

stake1591

gagec1598

bet?a1600

go1607

wagera1616

abet1617

impone1702

sport1706

stand1795

gamble1813

parlay1828

ante1846

to put on1890

plunge1919

society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > gamble at a game [verb (transitive)] > stake something in game

play?a1425

hazard1529

stoopc1555

to stake down1565

prizea1592

stake1591

gamble1813

buck1851

chip1857

to chip in1892

1813 H. Binney Rep. Supreme Court Pennsylvania 5 123 I should require strong proof to satisfy my mind, that they meditated survivorship in their transactions, and gambled their lives respectively against each other.

1822 New Ann. Reg. 1821 Brit. & Foreign Hist. 192/2 He maintained that..if the people did not gamble their money in that manner, they would expend it in some other equally objectionable.

1831 R. Cox Columbia River II. (Concl.) 377 They will gamble their guns, robes, and even their shoes.

1885 O. W. Holmes, Jr. in Law Q. Rev. Apr. 172 Tacitus says that the Germans would gamble their personal liberty and pay with their persons if they lost.

1905 E. Hough Heart's Desire xv. 204 The boys they gambled about two thousand dollars on that horse over at Socorro.

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xviii. [Penelope] 728 When do you ever see women rolling around drunk like they do or gambling every penny they have and losing it on horses.

1984 T. Horton Bay Country (1987) 63 The blue crab alone seems wont to gamble its existence.

2004 Golf Punk Dec. 126 What can be better than gambling £1000 on the annual lottery of tour school.

2006 Esquire Sept. 78/3 I panic and not only bet, but gamble all of the money at my disposal.

Phrases

colloquial. In various asseverations expressing absolute certainty, as you can gamble on that, you can gamble your boots that, etc. Cf. bet v. c.Much less common than the equivalent uses of bet, esp. after the early 20th cent.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > absence of doubt, confidence > assured fact, certainty > making certain, assurance > of course, certainly [phrase] > beyond question

(as) sure as ——a1413

if your cap be of wool1546

as sure as a club1584

(as) sure as a guna1640

(as) sure as God made little apples1796

you can gamble on that1862

no matter how (or whichever way, etc.) you slice it1936

that's for sure1971

1862 Vanity Fair 26 Apr. 199/1 You ain't goin' to fool female Young America much. You may gamble on that.

1896 Pall Mall Mag. 14 Sept. There will be trouble for some one. You can gamble on that.

1911 G. Bronson-Howard Enemy to Society 41 You kin go gamble your boots that th' men who've been fixed for the franchise get in if there has to be all kinds of assault and murder done.

1919 Railroad Telegrapher May 605/1 I am intensely human in some ways myself, and you can gamble your life that I recognize humanness when I see it.

1920 W. P. White Paradise Bend ii. 15 He wasn't afraid, yuh can gamble on that.

2008 M. Mahy Magician of Hoad (2009) iii. 235 No one will ever be able to take it away from me. I'll gamble on that.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

n.¹1703

n.²1785

v.1753

单词	gamble
释义	gamblen.¹ Brit. /ˈɡambl/, U.S. /ˈɡæmbəl/ Forms: 1700s– gamble, 1900s– gambal; English regional (south-western) 1800s gambel (Suffolk), 1800s– gamel (south-western), 1800s– gammel (south-western); also Irish English (northern) 1900s gammel. Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: gambrel n. Etymology: Variant of gambrel n. Compare -le suffix. 1. = gambrel n. 2. Also more fully gamble joint. Now regional and rare. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > body or parts of horse > [noun] > leg > hock cambrel?1523 hock1540 gambrel1601 gamble1703 chambrel1704 1703 London Gaz. No. 3970/4 Has had the Farcy on the near Leg behind..and has had a great Sore on that gamble Joynt. 1720 London Gaz. No. 5883/3 White Legs behind almost up to his Gambles. a1876 E. Leigh Gloss. Words Dial. Cheshire (1877) 86 Gamble, the hough of a horse. 1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Gamble, the hock or elbow-joint of a hind-leg. Never applied to the entire leg..nor confined to horses. Properly the word applies to the strong tendon just above the joint. 1941 J. K. Rollinson Pony Trails in Wyoming iii. 37 With one hand, on the hoof or fetlock, and one on the gamble (gambrel). 2. More fully gamble stick. = gambrel n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > hook or frame for hanging meat cambrelc1450 gambrel1547 butcher's hook1596 flesh-hook1596 cambren1656 shamble-hook1688 stage1715 meathook1771 progger1818 gamble1831 gallows1866 gammon1874 1831 N.-Y. Mirror 20 Apr. 339/1 He has left half the bristle on, and it hung all lopsided for the want of a gamble. 1876 Surrey Gloss. Gamble-stick, the crooked piece of wood used to hang up a pig or other slaughtered animal. 1893 G. E. Dartnell & E. H. Goddard Gloss. Words Wilts. Gamel, the piece of wood or iron used by butchers for extending or hanging a carcase. 1907 Hunter-Trader-Trapper Apr. 31/1 I tie binder twine to the middle of the gamble stick and hang over a limb. 1966 Weekly News (Auckland) 26 Jan. 39 My father already had the gallows ready, complete with ropes, pulleys and a ‘gamble’. 2004 R. Peck Teacher's Funeral xiv. 159 We hoisted the carcass up on the tripod and fixed the hind legs with the gamble stick. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). gamblen.² Brit. /ˈɡambl/, U.S. /ˈɡæmbəl/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: gamble v. Etymology: < gamble v. Originally colloquial. 1. a. A spell or bout of gambling. Also occasionally in on the gamble. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > doing > [noun] > spell or bout of action turnc1230 heatc1380 touch1481 pluck?1499 push?1560 bout1575 yoking1594 pull1667 tirl1718 innings1772 go1784 gamble1785 pop1839 run1864 gang1879 inning1885 shot1939 1785 G. A. Bellamy Apol. Life II. lii. 186 We three had made a party for the evening, which was to commence early, that we might have a long gamble as he termed it. 1879 F. S. Bridges Round World in Six Months 138 Many English come here..to get fresh air and indulge in a gamble. 1887 H. R. Haggard Jess ii. 16 Her brute of a husband was away on the drink and gamble. 1896 Jrnl. Soc. Arts 13 Mar. 380/2 [They] would start work again the next morning for another year, with the prospect of another night's gamble at the end of it. 1942 J. Gardiner Let. Jan. in Class Apart (1992) 107/1 Darling I had a gamble on the ship and I won £3 and a bit more and the lads and I had a drink and got drunk with it on lager. 2010 M. Dare London to Las Vegas playing Roulette 97 The second day we went down the Boulder Highway to the Hoover Dam, stopping off for a quick gamble at the Railroad Cross casino. b. An act of gambling a sum of money on a particular outcome; a wager, a bet, a ‘flutter’. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > betting > [noun] > bet wager1548 bet1591 abetment1614 gamble1883 punt1965 1883 M. H. Hayes Indian Racing Reminisc. xi. 117 He..resolved to have a gamble on the steeplechase, although I entreated him to ‘leave well alone’. 1928 H. Lauder Roamin' in Gloamin' xix. 209 Our caddies were overjoyed at the success of our side because I think they had a gamble on with the other pair. 1957 R. Hoggart Uses of Literacy i. v. 115 Hence the plethora of gambles and flutters. 1989 U.S. News & World Rep. 6 Nov. 107/1 The sister security, called a score, entitles investors to capital gains above that limit. Scores, like options, are a gamble on future prices. 2002 M. Crick Boss (2003) xxi. 383 [He] saw drinking as the enemy, not gambling. He liked a gamble himself. 2. A venture, course of action, etc., undertaken even though it invites risk and uncertainty; a risky action undertaken with the hope of success. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > chance or causelessness > [noun] > hazard, venture, or gamble adventurec1405 gamble1823 1823 W. Cobbett Rural Rides in Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 6 Sept. 598 This hop growing and dealing have always been a gamble. 1881 Sat. Rev. 9 July 40/2 Politics, in fact, are ‘a big gamble’. 1897 Westm. Gaz. 29 Apr. 4/2 Gold mines are necessarily a gamble. 1917 United Mine Workers Jrnl. 27 Dec. 26/2 If the bore is a gamble within known productive bounds, it is obviously much more so in territory which has never been tested. 1999 Stage 30 Sept. 14/2 Adults taking on the roles of children is often a gamble, and it does not pay off here. 2009 Daily Tel. 1 Sept. 23/1 Inviting Radiohead to close Reading festival was a bit of a gamble. 3. The fact or quality of being risky or involving an unavoidable element of chance; risk or uncertainty as a source of excitement. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > [noun] > risk > quality hazardousness1651 riskiness1839 gamble1880 1880 Engin. & Mining Jrnl. 4 Sept. 160/2 It is the gamble that attracts them. They neither expect nor care much for a bonanza, except as an aid to the gamble. 1890 G. Saintsbury in New Rev. Feb. 141 The real point is the chance, the uncertainty, the gamble. 1924 J. Galsworthy White Monkey ii. iii, in Mod. Comedy (1929) 109 Take away the gamble, and life's a frost. 2009 C. Minor Hitler's Spy viii. 104 It was great fun; the risk, the gamble, the thrill you get from the bluff. Phrases Chiefly U.S. on a gamble: as a venture or undertaking unavoidably involving an element of risk and uncertainty; trusting to luck. ΚΠ 1916 Creating Shipping Board (U.S. Senate Comm. on Commerce) 53 There are lots of them going into it on a gamble. 1924 C. E. Mulford Rustlers' Valley vi. 68 On a gamble he raised his sombrero. 2011 M. Swann Foreigners xxii. 206 She could do it on a gamble, hoping to get a job tonight, but that was really crazy. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). gamblev. Brit. /ˈɡambl/, U.S. /ˈɡæmbəl/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: game v., game n. Etymology: Ultimately < either game v. or game n.; the final -le may show that this word is a frequentative derivative (see -le suffix 3), or may have arisen as a variant of either α. forms at game v. or α. forms at game n., in either case apparently reflecting a form of either game v. or game n. with failure of Middle English lengthening in open syllables (compare forms at both entries); the -b- reflects subsequent development of an excrescent consonant. The related words gambling adj., gambling n., and gambler n. are all first attested somewhat earlier, and may have developed earlier than the verb.Compare earlier gameling n., which may reflect an intermediate step, although it apparently shows a long vowel in the first syllable. Eng. Dial. Dict. (1900) indicates variable vowel length for gameling ‘romping about’ in 19th-cent. use in Sussex and Hampshire. Compare also gammle occurring in the meaning ‘gamble’ in regional use in Yorkshire and in Ulster (although this could show a secondary development from gamble , rather than an older form), and also gamel ‘to gamble, to gambol’ and gamler ‘a gambler’ recorded in 19th-cent. use in Northumberland (see R. O. Heslop Northumberland Words II. (1893) 315). A related form may also be shown by the following:a1900 F. P. Thompson in Eng. Dial. Dict. (1900) II. 550/2 [Yorkshire] The yoong men go awaäy i' t'afternoon, a laäkin' at gam'lin'-sticks [glossed here as ‘the game of cricket’]. There is probably no direct connection with Middle High German gamel , variant of gamen game n., which survives in some modern varieties (especially in Switzerland); compare the derivatives Middle High German gämeln, German regional (Swiss) gammeln to make merry. 1. transitive (frequently in passive). With out of. To divest (a person) of something, esp. a sum of money, through gambling. Now rare. ΚΠ 1753 Ess. on Deism 9 The Youth who so supinely permits himself to be cheated (or thus gambled) out of his Principles, becomes a Devotee to every Vice [etc.]. 1838 R. M. Bird Peter Pilgrim II. 196 A scoundrelly fellow, who met my advances with extreme cordiality, and immediately gambled me out of all my money. 1862 Cornhill Mag. Nov. 645 The stranger will perhaps be cheated and gambled out of all his money, and then sent out of the house insulted as well as plundered. 1914 C. S. Thoms Working Man's Christ xii. 254 Our Father who art in heaven, remember in love and mercy the man I gambled out of fifty dollars to-day. 2. a. intransitive. To play games for stakes, as cards, dice, etc., or bet on the outcome of particular events, e.g. the result of a race or other sporting contest; to engage in gambling, esp. habitually or on a specified type of event. Formerly also: †to cheat at a gambling game; to be a sharper or swindler (cf. gambler n. 1) (obsolete). Also figurative.In early use almost always with pejorative connotations of extravagance, immorality, etc. N.E.D. (1898) noted ‘it would not ordinarily be applied to the action of playing for stakes of trifling amount, except by those who condemn playing for money altogether’. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > betting > bet [verb (intransitive)] laya1300 to lay wedc1330 stake1530 wager1604 bet1609 gamble1757 sport1760 invest1852 punt1887 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 1757 London Mag. Apr. 160/2 This consideration, that great people..are..gambling perhaps with their own grooms,..is enough to make an Englishman forget himself. 1775 J. Ash New Dict. Eng. Lang. Gamble [printed Gamblet], to game, to cheat; to make a practice of gaming. 1786 R. Burns Twa Dogs xxii, in Poems 17 At Operas an' Plays parading, Mortgaging, gambling, masquerading. 1838 A. De Morgan Ess. Probabilities 101 It should seem as if we were thus told either not to gamble at all, or else to play incessantly. 1850 T. Carlyle Latter-day Pamphlets vi. 21 Gambling against the world for life or for death. 1897 Times 9 Jan. 7 As a husband Pierrot falls short of expectations... He drinks, he gambles, he stays out the greater part of the night. 1909 B. O'Hara From Figg to Johnson 160 He goes into retirement, travels extensively, gambles on the horses, loses his wealth. 1911 Lincoln (Nebraska) Evening News 26 Sept. 4/6 He and Mike Petaris, a Mexican, gambled for the clothes of the other in a railroad bunk car. 1956 N. Algren Walk on Wild Side i. 6 In a town where nearly everyone danced, swore and gambled, the only fun Fitz had left was getting his back up. 1989 S. MacGowan White City (song) in ‘The Pogues’ Peace & Love (record sleeve notes) Here the paddies and the frogs Came to gamble on the dogs. 2009 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 15 Jan. a10/2 The Chinese officials who gamble here lose mostly at baccarat, the game of choice in Macao. b. intransitive. To behave in a way which exposes something valuable to risk, danger, or unnecessary uncertainty; to speculate or take risks, esp. recklessly. Frequently with in, with. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > face danger [verb (intransitive)] > risk oneself > run or take risks dicec1440 to put one's finger in the fire1546 hazardc1550 venture1560 to jeopard a joint1563 to venture a joint1570 to run (also take) a (also the) risk (also risks)1621 danger1672 risk1767 gamble1802 to ride a tiger1902 to stick (also put) one's neck out1926 to lead with one's chin1949 to tickle the dragon('s tail)1964 1802 European Mag. Feb. 105/1 To make the bounty of Providence an object of speculation, and gamble with the first necessaries of life. 1828 Niles' Reg. 23 Aug. 419/2 A new race of merchant adventurers (in the modern acceptation of that word) comes forward to speculate, or rather, to gamble with the fortunes of others. 1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda II. iii. xxv. 151 He was almost in danger of forgetting that he was merely gambling in argument. 1884 Harper's Mag. Apr. 26 The evil effects of gambling in stocks and provisions. 1939 Rotarian June 36/2 I was game to gamble with public opinion. 1997 Arthritis Today Mar. 41/3 (advt.) With the stress, pollution, and viruses that plague us today, why gamble with your health? c. intransitive. With on (also upon). To stake money or risk anything of value on the outcome of an event involving a large degree of chance or uncertainty, as a game of chance, a horse race or other sporting contest, a commercial enterprise, etc. Also in extended use. ΚΠ 1804 W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. 2 235 Antijacobinism had..still some gay hopes to gamble upon, still some inkling to turn up a king. 1887 Jrnl. House of Representatives Michigan 23 Apr. 2 1514 In other words he gambled upon the lives of these paupers under his charge? 1925 E. F. Norton in E. F. Norton et al. Fight for Everest: 1924 194 And so a party starting from the North Col gambles on three suitable days running. 1954 T. S. Eliot Confidential Clerk ii. 64 I don't believe you ever gamble On anything that isn't a certainty. 1997 Daily Tel. 1 Apr. 13/2 Punters can gamble on the number of seats Labour will win. d. intransitive. To take a chance that a desired result will be achieved or state of affairs be the case. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > chance or causelessness > chance [verb (intransitive)] > run a risk or take one's chance to take one's chancec1325 to take penancec1400 to throw at allc1400 to buy a pig (in Scotl. a cat) in a poke1546 to throw the helve after the hatchet1546 to set (up) one's rest1579 to give the adventure1607 to make a shaft or a bolt of ita1616 to run a fortune1627 to run for luck1799 to go the vole1816 chance1863 to chance one's arm1889 to take a chance or chances1902 gamble1919 1919 Engin. & Contracting 24 Sept. 355/1 Those who were expected..to gamble that their costs would fall within a fixed contract price. 1948 Sun (Baltimore) 3 Dec. 14/2 Who wants to gamble that a passel of bureaucrats in a planned economy could have shown similar bounce in the face of adversity? 1977 Time 18 Apr. 53/2 Carter may be gambling that..he can tamp down the debate over the safety of nuclear power. 1993 Rugby World & Post May 28/2 The selectors are prepared to gamble that they still have the fire in their bellies and wind in their lungs. 2004 New Yorker 13 Sept. 29/3 Giuliani is gambling that well-watered memories of his 9/11 Churchillian moment..can overcome his record. 3. transitive. To lose or squander (money, property, etc.) by gambling. Usually with adverb or adverbial phrase, esp. away. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > betting > bet on [verb (transitive)] > lose to play away1562 to play off1693 to race away1741 gamble1764 society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > gamble at a game [verb (transitive)] > lose by gaming game1597 gamble1764 1764 W. Dodd Visitor II. xlvi. 23 Some folks had better be fighting than gambling away their money. 1836 W. Irving Astoria II. 290 They gamble away every thing they possess, even to their wives and children. 1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair lxiv. 585 When she got her money she gambled; when she had gambled it she was put to shifts to live. 1865 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. Rationalism II. vi. 257 Men who had gambled away their liberty. 1874 ‘H. Churton’ Toinette xii Loyd probably traded her off, perhaps gambled her off, in some drunken spree. 1901 G. W. James Indian Basketry iii. 26 After he had gambled away all his possessions, he left his home for some far away country in the hope of bettering his fortunes. 1986 M. Thompson Coaltown Blues 35 Why do you gamble our lives down the drain? 2004 P. Southern Craze viii. 57 They were..forever gambling the wives' housekeeping away. 4. transitive. To bet, wager (a sum of money, or other stake). Also more generally: to expose (something valuable) to risk or danger in the hope of gaining some advantage, benefit, or success. Frequently with on, specifying the outcome or event on which the stake is risked. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > betting > bet on [verb (transitive)] > bet (money, etc.) laya1300 wed1362 to lay downc1430 setc1460 jeopardc1470 wage1484 holda1500 pary?a1505 to stake down1565 stake1591 gagec1598 bet?a1600 go1607 wagera1616 abet1617 impone1702 sport1706 stand1795 gamble1813 parlay1828 ante1846 to put on1890 plunge1919 society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > gamble at a game [verb (transitive)] > stake something in game play?a1425 hazard1529 stoopc1555 to stake down1565 prizea1592 stake1591 gamble1813 buck1851 chip1857 to chip in1892 1813 H. Binney Rep. Supreme Court Pennsylvania 5 123 I should require strong proof to satisfy my mind, that they meditated survivorship in their transactions, and gambled their lives respectively against each other. 1822 New Ann. Reg. 1821 Brit. & Foreign Hist. 192/2 He maintained that..if the people did not gamble their money in that manner, they would expend it in some other equally objectionable. 1831 R. Cox Columbia River II. (Concl.) 377 They will gamble their guns, robes, and even their shoes. 1885 O. W. Holmes, Jr. in Law Q. Rev. Apr. 172 Tacitus says that the Germans would gamble their personal liberty and pay with their persons if they lost. 1905 E. Hough Heart's Desire xv. 204 The boys they gambled about two thousand dollars on that horse over at Socorro. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xviii. [Penelope] 728 When do you ever see women rolling around drunk like they do or gambling every penny they have and losing it on horses. 1984 T. Horton Bay Country (1987) 63 The blue crab alone seems wont to gamble its existence. 2004 Golf Punk Dec. 126 What can be better than gambling £1000 on the annual lottery of tour school. 2006 Esquire Sept. 78/3 I panic and not only bet, but gamble all of the money at my disposal. Phrases colloquial. In various asseverations expressing absolute certainty, as you can gamble on that, you can gamble your boots that, etc. Cf. bet v. c.Much less common than the equivalent uses of bet, esp. after the early 20th cent. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > absence of doubt, confidence > assured fact, certainty > making certain, assurance > of course, certainly [phrase] > beyond question (as) sure as ——a1413 if your cap be of wool1546 as sure as a club1584 (as) sure as a guna1640 (as) sure as God made little apples1796 you can gamble on that1862 no matter how (or whichever way, etc.) you slice it1936 that's for sure1971 1862 Vanity Fair 26 Apr. 199/1 You ain't goin' to fool female Young America much. You may gamble on that. 1896 Pall Mall Mag. 14 Sept. There will be trouble for some one. You can gamble on that. 1911 G. Bronson-Howard Enemy to Society 41 You kin go gamble your boots that th' men who've been fixed for the franchise get in if there has to be all kinds of assault and murder done. 1919 Railroad Telegrapher May 605/1 I am intensely human in some ways myself, and you can gamble your life that I recognize humanness when I see it. 1920 W. P. White Paradise Bend ii. 15 He wasn't afraid, yuh can gamble on that. 2008 M. Mahy Magician of Hoad (2009) iii. 235 No one will ever be able to take it away from me. I'll gamble on that. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.¹1703n.²1785v.1753
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