单词 | hazardry |
释义 | hazardryn. 1. The action of playing at hazard or dice; gambling. Also: the game of hazard. Now archaic or historical. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > dice-playing > [noun] > hazard > playing hazardryc1325 hazardinga1475 c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) l. 4024 Ydelnesse hom ssal bringe to sunne of lecherye To tauerne & to sleuþe & to hasardrie [c1425 Harl. hasarderye]. c1390 Cato's Distichs (Vernon) l. 90 in F. J. Furnivall Minor Poems Vernon MS (1901) 560 (MED) Tak a Toppe, ȝif þou wolt pleye, And not at þe hasardrye [Fr. ala hasard]. c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Pardoner's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 262 Now wol I yow defende hasardrye. c1460 (?c1400) Tale of Beryn l. 1250 (MED) Leve now al thy foly and thy rebawdy, As Tablis & merellis and þe hazardry. a1555 D. Lindsay Tragedie in Dialog Experience & Courteour (1559) sig. Svjv Leif hasarttrie. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. i. sig. Cc5 Some fel to hazardry. 1612 Legh's Accedence of Armory (rev. ed.) 78 Hazardrye and going to common Tauerns. 1843 Metrop. Mag. Mar. 298 The yeoman of Sir Lancelot..ate and drank, and played at tables and hazardry. 1888 C. M. Doughty Trav. Arabia Deserta II. xiv. 401 Hazardry, banquetting, and many running sores and hideous sinks of our great towns are unknown to them. 1914 Jrnl. Eng. & Germanic Philol. 13 560 The two other accessories of Gluttony—Hazardry and Blasphemy—are always closely associated in medieval literature. 2007 K. Dixon Art of Losing viii. 99 I lit a cigarette and sat watching its trembling tip, thinking of gambling, of hazardry, and its hazard of debt. 2. Risk-taking. Somewhat rare. ΚΠ 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. v. sig. Q6 Hasty wroth, and heedlesse hazardry Doe breede repentaunce late, and lasting infamy. 1931 Centralia (Washington) Daily Chron. 9 May 8/4 You'll find in Harry Carey the realization of your mental picture of the bold trader,..unable to tear himself away from a career of hazardry and venturesome drama. 2014 Southland Times (N.Z.) (Nexis) 11 July 6 Some concern has arisen about the Jackass hazardry behind the ice challenge, through the potential risk from the shock of cold. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1325 |
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