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spoil- the stem of spoil v.1 in comb. with ns., as spoil-five, a round game of cards which is said to be ‘spoiled’ if no player wins three out of a possible five tricks; † spoil-paper, a petty author or scribbler; spoil-pudding slang (see quot.); spoil-trade, one who spoils trade. Also spoil-sport.1...
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Twenty-five (card game)
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The game is a 19th century member of the Maw family of games that also includes the round game of Spoil Five (also called Spoil-Five, or Spoilt Variants
Twenty-five and Forty-five are varieties of Spoil-five and they are played for either of these numbers.
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twenty-five
twenty-five [twenty A. 1 b.] 1. Hockey and Rugby Football. The line drawn across the ground twenty-five yards from each goal; also, the space enclosed by this.1877 Field 24 Feb. 220/2 They were completely penned in their own twenty-five. 1889 Pauline VIII. 36 The play was constantly in our opponents...
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spoiled
spoiled, ppl. a. (spɔɪld, -lt) [f. spoil v.1] 1. a. Pillaged, plundered; ravaged. Obs. or arch.c 1440 Promp. Parv. 470 Spoylyd, or spolyyd, spoliatus. 1550 T. Lever Serm. (Arb.) 94 For your charitable pytye of myserable spoiled people. 1598 W. Phillip tr. Linschoten 191/2 For that a whole day we cou...
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jink
▪ I. jink, n.1 orig. Sc. (dʒɪŋk) [cf. jink v.1] 1. a. The act of eluding; a quick turn so as to elude a pursuer or escape from a guard. Used esp. of a tricky turn in Rugby Football, or in Aeronautics. Also transf. and fig. to give the jink, to give the slip by way of a trick.1786 Burns Bard gone to ...
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spoil
▪ I. spoil, n. (spɔɪl) Forms: 4, 6–7 spoyle, 4, 6–8 spoile, 4, 6– spoil, 6 spoylle, 7–8 spoyl; 4–5 spuyle, 5 spuyl. See also spulyie. [ad. OF. espoille, espuille, f. espoillier (see next); or directly f. spoil v.1 In senses 5–6 after L. spolium, pl. spolia. As in the verb, there are notable gaps in ...
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