| 单词 | guessing game |
| 释义 | > as lemmasguessing game attributive and in other combinations. guessing game, a parlour game in which much of the playing consists of guessing; also transferred. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > parlour and party games > [noun] > guessing game guessing game1889 1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 548 All writ by Prophane, or Sacred Pen-men may be tearmed guessing Discoveries..in comparison of the Experiment of dying. 1699 A. Boyer Royal Dict. (at cited word) Physick is but a guessing Science. 1711 J. Anderson Countrey-man's Let. to Curat 82 And upon this he imploys his Guessing Faculty. 1889 W. C. Brownell French Traits iii. 98 The French intelligence seems to have almost no frivolous side. The different varieties of mental arithmetic, guessing-games, puzzles, puns, spiritualism, theosophy, fanaticisms, have no attractions for it. 1936 E. S. Gardner Case of Stuttering Bishop (1937) viii. 122 If you want to waste your time playing guessing games with me, that's your funeral. 1938 D. Kincaid Brit. Social Life in India ix. 254 After dinner..there would be guessing games and competitions. 1941 E. Bowen Look at all those Roses 125 Juvenile parties..when guessing games could be played. 1955 I. Fleming Moonraker xiv. 139 I can't spend all the morning playing guessing games. 1966 ‘R. Standish’ Widow Hack xiv. 153 I played a little guessing game in an effort to divine in advance what Madeleine's next move would be. 1969 I. Opie & P. Opie Children's Games ii. 108 Popular at the beginning of the century, was the guessing game ‘Dead Men, Dark Scenery’. < as lemmas |
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