单词 | noddy-fifteen |
释义 | > as lemmasnoddy-fifteen a. A card game related to cribbage. Also noddy-fifteen. Now historical and rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > cribbage > [noun] > varieties of noddy?1589 ?1589 T. Nashe Almond for Parrat sig. 52 Let not me take you at noddy anie more, least I present you to the parish for a gamster. a1634 J. Day Peregrinatio Scholastica (Sloane 3150) f. 33v Wth plaieing to much att primeroe, and noddy, he lost time & his monie to. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory (1905) iii. xvi. 72/2 The principall games at cards..8. Noddy, and Cribbidge-Noddy. 2 or 4 persons may play at it, 61 being vp, Each person hath 3 cards and one turned vp to which he makes as many casts as he can. c1700 in J. Maidment Bk. Sc. Pasquils (1868) 331 For preaching, for drinking, for playing at noudy, Bannocks of bear meal, cakes of croudy. c1700 in J. Maidment Bk. Sc. Pasquils (1868) 331 They preach well, feast well, and play well at noudy. c1780 in S. Gilpin Pop. Poetry Cumberland (1875) 68 She..lost nineteen-pence at noddy. 1823 E. Moor Suffolk Words (at cited word) We have also..a game called noddy, the same, I believe, which we call niddy-noddy; another name of which is the Lord Mayor of Coventry. 1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Noddy-fifteen, a game at cards. 1875 Encycl. Brit. VI. 575/2 Cribbage seems to be an improved form of noddy. 1990 D. Parlett Oxf. Guide Card Games x. 131 References to Noddy, an earlier form of the game, appear in the sixteenth century, and many later ones make it sound synonymous with Cribbage. < as lemmas |
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