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单词 word game
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word game
word game n.
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1852 E. S. Dallas Poetics ii. iii. 72 Poesy is lowered into a mere word-game, a kind of leasing where we utter self-evident lies by way of amusement.
1899 Los Angeles Times 30 July 22 The idea is to deal out a dozen cards, each having some letter of the alphabet on it, to the players—such cards as are used in word games, or may be made for the purpose.
1934 Mind 43 117 Those who are reluctant to regard philosophy as mere mystery-mongering or as an academic word-game.
1974 R. Passmore & J. S. Robson Compan. Med. Stud. III. xxxiv. 8/1 Wittgenstein described speech as a ‘word game’, implying that language follows defined rules similar to those which govern sports.
2004 Independent 17 Aug. (Review section) 4/4 Before I left, I had..played the word game Taboo with two Mexicans, one Colombian, an Austrian and a Swiss.
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