单词 | wappie |
释义 | wappien. Caribbean (chiefly Trinidad and Jamaican). A gambling card game in which the dealer gives each player a card and then turns over cards until one matching a card held by a player is revealed, that player being the winner. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > games of chance played with cards > [noun] > others banker1874 wappie1902 Georgia skin1911 skin1923 skin game1935 1902 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 16 Oct. 12/4 They were playing a game called ‘Wappy’ for 3d and 1½d a chance. 1959 V. S. Naipaul Miguel St. i. 12 They played wappee and drank rum. 1968 K. S. La Fortune Legend of T-Marie xii. 51 Cab-men sat on benches or on boxes talking politics or playing wappie. 2019 @triniboyshaq 18 July in twitter.com (accessed 7 Sept. 2020) Playing Wappie every morning and buying a bake and chicken with ah cream soda. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1902 |
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