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单词 logogriph
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logogriphn.

/ˈlɒɡəɡrɪf/
Forms: 1500s–1800s logogryphe, 1600s–1800s logogriphe, 1800s logogriff, 1600s– logogriph.
Etymology: < French logogriphe, < Greek λόγος word + γρῖϕος fishing-basket, riddle.
A kind of enigma, in which a certain word, and other words that can be formed out of all or any of its letters, are to be guessed from synonyms of them introduced into a set of verses. Occasionally used for: Any anagram or puzzle involving anagrams.
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society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > puzzle > [noun] > other word puzzles
riddleOE
logogriph1598
rebus1605
name-device1631
telesticha1637
lipogram1711
charade1776
conundrum1790
logogram1820
anagrams?1860
acrostic1861
metagram1867
word square1867
verbarian1872
jumble-letters1899
word ladder1928
Double-Crostic1934
word search1957
hangman1961
1598 Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 3 Last Bks. iv. i. 5 Worse then the Logogryphes of later times, Or Hundreth Riddles shak't to sleeue-lesse rimes.
a1637 B. Jonson Under-woods xliii. 34 in Wks. (1640) III Had I..weav'd fittie [read fiftie] tomes Of Logogriphes, and curious Palindromes.
1765 H. Walpole Let. to Lady Hervey 21 Nov. Lett. (1857) IV. 439 All I can send your ladyship is a very pretty logogriphe, made by..Madame du Deffand.
1770 C. J. Fox Let. 25 Oct. in J. H. Jesse G. Selwyn & his Contemp. (1843) II. 398 I gained great credit there by guessing a logogryphe.
1813 W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. 36 417 A logogriph..describes not a word only, but all the included words, which any portion of its letters can spell.
1835 Tait's Edinb. Mag. New Ser. 2 808 A sort of logogriff not worthy of solution.
1877 G. F. Chambers Handbk. Descr. Astron. (ed. 3) i. xii. 136 The original discovery was announced to Kepler in the following logogriph.
1884 J. Payne 1001 Nights VII. 210 (note) The clue to this logogriph lies in the numerical value of the letters forming the key-word.

Derivatives

logoˈgriphic adj. of or pertaining to logogriphs, of the nature of a logogriph.
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society > leisure > entertainment > toy or plaything > puzzle > [adjective] > relating to other word puzzles
acrostic1585
logogriphic1814
logogrammatic1820
1814 Q. Rev. 10 464 By dropping r [from Borlase], and changing ase into us, we have the ingenious logogriphic title of Sir Bolus.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1903; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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