单词 | pounce commerce |
释义 | pounce commercen. Now rare. A card game resembling snap. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > children's or simple games > [noun] snap snorum1622 beggar-my-neighbour1734 snip-snap-snorum1755 old maid1831 pounce commerce1847 muggins1855 happy families1861 author1863 snap1881 strip-jack-naked1881 spoof1884 animal grab1894 grab1900 donkey1920 1847 Bell's Life in London 26 Sept. 2/2 We do not know the game of Pounce Commerce. 1858 Littell's Living Age 10 Apr. 134/1 ‘What shall it be?’ asked Miss Popsy; ‘loo, red nines, vingt-um [sic], or pounce commerce?’ 1888 J. Payn Myst. Mirbridge viii Love is very much like the domestic game of pounce commerce—we must..always keep changing one's hand, as the cards come round. 1910 Encycl. Brit. VI. 771/1 A popular variation of Commerce is Pounce Commerce. In this, if a player has already three similar cards, e.g. three nines, and the fourth nine comes into the pool, he says ‘Pounce!’ and takes it, thus obtaining a hand of four, which is higher than any hand of three: whenever a pounce occurs, a new card is turned up from the pack. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1847 |
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