great gamen.

Brit.

/ˌɡreɪt ˈɡeɪm/, U.S.

/ˌɡreɪt ˈɡeɪm/

Forms: also with capital initials in sense 1.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: great adj., game n.

Etymology: < great adj. + game n.

With the.

1. The struggle for power and influence in southern central Asia and the north-west borders of India and present Pakistan, spec. that between Britain and Russia in the 19th cent. Hence (with allusion to the methods frequently associated with this historical struggle): undercover and intelligence activities.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > secret observation, spying > [noun]

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espying1340

espialc1386

espyc1386

spyc1450

especiala1500

spieryc1588

intelligence1602

worming1607

scouting1644

espionage1793

spyism1847

spydom1859

obbo1933

great game1936

spooking1977

1841 Lit. Gaz. 5 June 368/1 (advt.) The important part which Persia has recently been playing in the great game of Eastern politics.

1842 United Service Mag. Nov. 452 Should Nott, after the destruction of Ghiznee, have orders to retire on the Indus, the like instructions are probably given to Pollock; and the great game against Cabul will be postponed until the spring.

1849 R. G. Taylor Rep. 15 Jan. in Papers relating to Punjab 571 Supposing..the Ameer to wish to assist in the great game, create a diversion in favor of the Sikhs, [etc.].

1851 J. W. Kaye Hist. War Afghanistan I. iv. i. 496 (heading) The Great Game of Central Asia—The Russian Expedition to Khiva.

1883 H. M. Durand Life Major-Gen. Sir H. M. Durand I. x. 281 The conduct of this correspondence, which often involves questions of great difficulty and imperial interest, and the watching of the ‘great game’ beyond our north-western frontier, towards which, whether for good or evil, Russia is steadily advancing, are duties of no light weight and importance.

1901 R. Kipling Kim vii. 183 When he comes to the Great Game he must go alone—alone, and at peril of his head.

1936 Pop. Sci. June 95 There is a tense, hidden conflict between spy and cryptographer, that furnishes one of the most dramatic and mystifying aspects of the great game of secret service.

1961 Guardian 17 Mar. 10/7 Some John Buchan hero, busily playing the Great Game for Queen and Country.

1964 ‘J. Welcome’ Hard to Handle ii. 28 Originally the Secret Service..was entrusted to amateurs..who played ‘the great game’, as they romantically called it, amongst themselves.

2010 Independent 27 Oct. (Viewspaper section) 2/3 Whether this latest twist in the Great Game offers a better future for the long-suffering Afghan people is, sadly, impossible at this stage to say.

2. The game of golf.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > golf > [noun]

golf1457

great game1866

1866 J. Blackwood Let. 26 Apr. in ‘G. Eliot’ Lett. (1955) IV. 245 The old golf ball maker's shop is associated in my mind..with elevating talks about ‘the great game’.

1922 T. W. Goodspeed University of Chicago Biogr. Sketches I. 271 His love for the great game made him a member of several golf clubs.

1997 R. Mintzer & P. Grossman Everything Golf Bk. 209 St. Andrews..is a perennial favorite stop for tours from all over the world. Getting to play this magnificent homage to the great game is not easy.

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

> as lemmas

1. Amusement, sport, fun; pleasure, enjoyment. In later use only with modifying adjective, as great (good, etc.) game. Also in fixed collocation with certain other nouns: see Phrases 15. Now rare (chiefly English regional (northern) and Irish English in later use).

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > entertainment > [noun]

gleea700

playeOE

gameeOE

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wil-gomenc1275

solacec1290

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solacingc1384

bourdc1390

mazec1390

welfarea1400

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solancec1400

sporta1425

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deport1477

recreancea1500

shurting15..

ebate?1518

recreating1538

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comfortmenta1558

disporting1561

pastiming1574

riec1576

joyance1595

spleen1598

merriment1600

amusement1603

amusing1603

entertainment1612

spleena1616

divertisement1651

diversion1653

disportment1660

sporting of nature1666

fun1726

délassement1804

gammock1841

pleasurement1843

dallying1889

rec1922

good, clean fun1923

cracka1966

looning1966

shoppertainment1993

society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > [noun]

playeOE

gameeOE

disportc1380

sportc1443

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pastime?1473

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retirement1641

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diversiona1684

ploya1689

lounge1788

divertissement1804

happening1959

letterboxing1977

timepass1982

eOE Metres of Boethius (partly from transcript of damaged MS) (2009) ix. 9 He het him to gamene geara forbærnan Romana burig.

OE Ælfric Homily: De Falsis Diis (Corpus Cambr. 178) in J. C. Pope Homilies of Ælfric (1968) II. 706 Þar wearð þa micel gamen þæt feala musa scutan of þære anlicnysse, þa hire ofe [read of] wæs þæt heafod.

c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 1521 Mid gomene [c1300 Otho game] & mid lehtre.

a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 2015 One and stille ðogt hire gamen Wið ioseph speken and plaigen samen.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 12554 Quen þis meigne was gadird same[n], þam wanted ai þeir gasteli gamen, Til þat iesus was cummen in place.

a1450 York Plays (1885) 298 We schall haue goode game with þis boy.

?c1500 Wisdom (Digby) l. 605 To be false, men reportith it game.

1529 T. More Dyaloge Dyuers Maters iv. vii. f. cv^v/1 [They] fyrste rebelled agaynst an abbot, & after agaynst a byshop, wherwyth the temporall lordys had good game and sporte.

1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 360 We haue had pastimes here and pleasant game .

1619 T. Gataker Spiritvall Watch 45 A man may surfet of, and bee drunke with prosperity, with pleasure, with game, with disport, with other the like delights.

1793 Northumberland Garland 67 You would have laugh'd had you seen the gam, The deil gat my marrow, but I gat the tram.

1832 Carpenter's Monthly Polit. Mag. Jan. 188 Kicking at dead lions is ‘rare game’ to cowards and bullies!

1850 J. P. Robson Songs Bards of Tyne 459 There's bonny gam' aboot wor toon.

1860 A. C. Swinburne Queen-mother i. iii. 21 It was good game to see Your hand that swung round, getting weight to throw.

1897 Yorks. Weekly Post 3 Apr. Sum on 'em thinks it rare gam to goa an' do a lot o' damage at Kirkstall Abbey ruins.

1907 J. M. Synge Tinker's Wedding i. 17 I'm thinking it should be great game to hear a scholar, the like of you, speaking Latin to the saints above.

(a) Indicating the extent to which something depends on the outcome of the game, or the magnitude of the stakes played for, as †great (also small, high, low) game. Frequently figurative and in figurative contexts.

ΚΠ

?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. liii^v A poore man..woll play as great game..as gentylmen were wont to do.

?1643 J. Vicars God on Mount 179 The Divell, who..is willing to play at small games, rather than sit out and bee idle.

1673 H. Hickman Hist. Quinq-articularis 483 In all the third Part, our Historian is put to horrible shifts, and plaies a very low game indeed.

1775 J. Macpherson Orig. Papers II. 509 To sacrifice all his fortune, and expose himself to the resentment of France, of the Pretender, and of the Queen's ministry, was playing a very high game.

1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth i, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. II. 13 You are playing a high game, look you play it fairly.

1894 M. Creighton Hist. Papacy V. 254 He [sc. Clement VII] had cast his little stake on the board where two gamesters were playing a high game.

1920 G. Dilnot Suspected xiv. 121 Eston never played a small game, save on those exceptional cases, when it was a question of bread and butter... It was a big stake here.

1999 R. Shannon Gladstone II. ii. 52 The point..was that Victoria was perfectly prepared to play a high game.

单词	great game
释义	great gamen. Brit. /ˌɡreɪt ˈɡeɪm/, U.S. /ˌɡreɪt ˈɡeɪm/ Forms: also with capital initials in sense 1. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: great adj., game n. Etymology: < great adj. + game n. With the. 1. The struggle for power and influence in southern central Asia and the north-west borders of India and present Pakistan, spec. that between Britain and Russia in the 19th cent. Hence (with allusion to the methods frequently associated with this historical struggle): undercover and intelligence activities. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > secret observation, spying > [noun] spying1338 espying1340 espialc1386 espyc1386 spyc1450 especiala1500 spieryc1588 intelligence1602 worming1607 scouting1644 espionage1793 spyism1847 spydom1859 obbo1933 great game1936 spooking1977 1841 Lit. Gaz. 5 June 368/1 (advt.) The important part which Persia has recently been playing in the great game of Eastern politics. 1842 United Service Mag. Nov. 452 Should Nott, after the destruction of Ghiznee, have orders to retire on the Indus, the like instructions are probably given to Pollock; and the great game against Cabul will be postponed until the spring. 1849 R. G. Taylor Rep. 15 Jan. in Papers relating to Punjab 571 Supposing..the Ameer to wish to assist in the great game, create a diversion in favor of the Sikhs, [etc.]. 1851 J. W. Kaye Hist. War Afghanistan I. iv. i. 496 (heading) The Great Game of Central Asia—The Russian Expedition to Khiva. 1883 H. M. Durand Life Major-Gen. Sir H. M. Durand I. x. 281 The conduct of this correspondence, which often involves questions of great difficulty and imperial interest, and the watching of the ‘great game’ beyond our north-western frontier, towards which, whether for good or evil, Russia is steadily advancing, are duties of no light weight and importance. 1901 R. Kipling Kim vii. 183 When he comes to the Great Game he must go alone—alone, and at peril of his head. 1936 Pop. Sci. June 95 There is a tense, hidden conflict between spy and cryptographer, that furnishes one of the most dramatic and mystifying aspects of the great game of secret service. 1961 Guardian 17 Mar. 10/7 Some John Buchan hero, busily playing the Great Game for Queen and Country. 1964 ‘J. Welcome’ Hard to Handle ii. 28 Originally the Secret Service..was entrusted to amateurs..who played ‘the great game’, as they romantically called it, amongst themselves. 2010 Independent 27 Oct. (Viewspaper section) 2/3 Whether this latest twist in the Great Game offers a better future for the long-suffering Afghan people is, sadly, impossible at this stage to say. 2. The game of golf. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > golf > [noun] golf1457 great game1866 1866 J. Blackwood Let. 26 Apr. in ‘G. Eliot’ Lett. (1955) IV. 245 The old golf ball maker's shop is associated in my mind..with elevating talks about ‘the great game’. 1922 T. W. Goodspeed University of Chicago Biogr. Sketches I. 271 His love for the great game made him a member of several golf clubs. 1997 R. Mintzer & P. Grossman Everything Golf Bk. 209 St. Andrews..is a perennial favorite stop for tours from all over the world. Getting to play this magnificent homage to the great game is not easy. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). > as lemmas great (good, etc.) game 1. Amusement, sport, fun; pleasure, enjoyment. In later use only with modifying adjective, as great (good, etc.) game. Also in fixed collocation with certain other nouns: see Phrases 15. Now rare (chiefly English regional (northern) and Irish English in later use). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > [noun] gleea700 playeOE gameeOE lakec1175 skentingc1175 wil-gomenc1275 solacec1290 deduit1297 envesurec1300 playingc1300 disport1303 spilea1325 laking1340 solacingc1384 bourdc1390 mazec1390 welfarea1400 recreationc1400 solancec1400 sporta1425 sportancea1450 sportingc1475 deport1477 recreancea1500 shurting15.. ebate?1518 recreating1538 abatementc1550 pleasuring1556 comfortmenta1558 disporting1561 pastiming1574 riec1576 joyance1595 spleen1598 merriment1600 amusement1603 amusing1603 entertainment1612 spleena1616 divertisement1651 diversion1653 disportment1660 sporting of nature1666 fun1726 délassement1804 gammock1841 pleasurement1843 dallying1889 rec1922 good, clean fun1923 cracka1966 looning1966 shoppertainment1993 society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > [noun] playeOE gameeOE disportc1380 sportc1443 museryc1450 pastime?1473 gaud1587 playgame1596 exercise1622 amusement1632 evagation1638 retirement1641 divertisement1642 diversiona1684 ploya1689 lounge1788 divertissement1804 happening1959 letterboxing1977 timepass1982 eOE Metres of Boethius (partly from transcript of damaged MS) (2009) ix. 9 He het him to gamene geara forbærnan Romana burig. OE Ælfric Homily: De Falsis Diis (Corpus Cambr. 178) in J. C. Pope Homilies of Ælfric (1968) II. 706 Þar wearð þa micel gamen þæt feala musa scutan of þære anlicnysse, þa hire ofe [read of] wæs þæt heafod. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1963) l. 1521 Mid gomene [c1300 Otho game] & mid lehtre. a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 2015 One and stille ðogt hire gamen Wið ioseph speken and plaigen samen. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 12554 Quen þis meigne was gadird same[n], þam wanted ai þeir gasteli gamen, Til þat iesus was cummen in place. a1450 York Plays (1885) 298 We schall haue goode game with þis boy. ?c1500 Wisdom (Digby) l. 605 To be false, men reportith it game. 1529 T. More Dyaloge Dyuers Maters iv. vii. f. cv^v/1 [They] fyrste rebelled agaynst an abbot, & after agaynst a byshop, wherwyth the temporall lordys had good game and sporte. 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 360 We haue had pastimes here and pleasant game . View more context for this quotation 1619 T. Gataker Spiritvall Watch 45 A man may surfet of, and bee drunke with prosperity, with pleasure, with game, with disport, with other the like delights. 1793 Northumberland Garland 67 You would have laugh'd had you seen the gam, The deil gat my marrow, but I gat the tram. 1832 Carpenter's Monthly Polit. Mag. Jan. 188 Kicking at dead lions is ‘rare game’ to cowards and bullies! 1850 J. P. Robson Songs Bards of Tyne 459 There's bonny gam' aboot wor toon. 1860 A. C. Swinburne Queen-mother i. iii. 21 It was good game to see Your hand that swung round, getting weight to throw. 1897 Yorks. Weekly Post 3 Apr. Sum on 'em thinks it rare gam to goa an' do a lot o' damage at Kirkstall Abbey ruins. 1907 J. M. Synge Tinker's Wedding i. 17 I'm thinking it should be great game to hear a scholar, the like of you, speaking Latin to the saints above. extracted from gamen. great (also small, high, low) game (a) Indicating the extent to which something depends on the outcome of the game, or the magnitude of the stakes played for, as †great (also small, high, low) game. Frequently figurative and in figurative contexts. ΚΠ ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. liii^v A poore man..woll play as great game..as gentylmen were wont to do. ?1643 J. Vicars God on Mount 179 The Divell, who..is willing to play at small games, rather than sit out and bee idle. 1673 H. Hickman Hist. Quinq-articularis 483 In all the third Part, our Historian is put to horrible shifts, and plaies a very low game indeed. 1775 J. Macpherson Orig. Papers II. 509 To sacrifice all his fortune, and expose himself to the resentment of France, of the Pretender, and of the Queen's ministry, was playing a very high game. 1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth i, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. II. 13 You are playing a high game, look you play it fairly. 1894 M. Creighton Hist. Papacy V. 254 He [sc. Clement VII] had cast his little stake on the board where two gamesters were playing a high game. 1920 G. Dilnot Suspected xiv. 121 Eston never played a small game, save on those exceptional cases, when it was a question of bread and butter... It was a big stake here. 1999 R. Shannon Gladstone II. ii. 52 The point..was that Victoria was perfectly prepared to play a high game. extracted from gamen. < n.1841 as lemmas
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