game
Part of speech: adj
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: lifestyle
seduction-community
sexuality
Etymology: Etymology tree
Proto-Germanic *gamaną
Proto-West Germanic *gaman
Old English gamen
Middle English game
English game
From Middle English game, gamen, gammen, from Old English gamen (“sport, joy, mirth, pastime, game, amusement, pleasure”), from Proto-West Germanic *gaman, from Proto-Germanic *gamaną (“amusement, pleasure, game", literally "participation, communion, people together”), from *ga- (collective prefix) + *mann- (“man”); or alternatively from *ga- + a root from Proto-Indo-European *men- (“to think, have in mind”).
Cognate with Yola gaame, gaaume, gaume (“game”), Old Frisian game, gome (“joy, amusement, entertainment”), Dutch gemelijk (“cantankerous, crabbed”), Middle High German gamen (“joy, amusement, fun, pleasure”), Danish gammen (“merriment”), Icelandic, Norwegian Nynorsk gaman (“joy, fun”), Swedish gamman (“mirth, rejoicing, merriment”). Related to gammon, gamble.
Inflected forms:
form: gamer
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: gamest
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: games
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: gaming
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: gamed
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: gamed
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: Willing and able to participate.
pos: adj
tags: colloquial
examples: "[…] But what’s this long face about, Mr. Starbuck; wilt thou not chase the white whale? art not game for Moby Dick?”
One Friday when I jumped into my barber’s chair to get a trim, she suggested I try a jheri curl. I was game, despite the fact that most of the women I knew hated jheri curls on men and called men who wore them “bamas,” a term short for Alabamas, which meant real country.
Some of Grimsby’s other (extraordinarily up-to-date) targets include Donald Trump and Daniel Radcliffe, whose fates here are too breath-catchingly cruel to spoil, and also the admirably game Strong, whose character is beset by a constant stream of humiliations that hit with the force of a jet of…well, you’ll see.
gloss: That shows a tendency to continue to fight against another animal, despite being wounded, often severely.
pos: adj
gloss: Persistent, especially in senses similar to the above.
pos: adj
gloss: To gamble.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: an impressive protest against gaming, swearing, and all immoral practices which might forfeit divine aid in the great struggle for National Independence
gloss: To play card games, board games, or video games.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: “The first few days after getting here are weird. It’s a version of cold turkey because you’ve been gaming around the clock and suddenly, nothing. […]”
gloss: To exploit loopholes in a system or bureaucracy in a way which defeats or nullifies the spirit of the rules in effect, usually to obtain a result which otherwise would be unobtainable.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: We'll bury them in paperwork, and game the system.
A large batch of online trolls have gamed a web contest that promises a Taylor Swift performance at any school in the US. The target? Horace Mann School for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing.
“Amazon risks betraying the trust millions of customers place in the Amazon’s Choice badge by allowing its endorsement to be all too easily gamed,” said Which?’s Natalie Hitchins.
It is an example of what real entrepreneurship can do on the railway, but sadly there are not many other examples. Most of the private sector businesses in rail are simply 'gaming' the system, trying to outdo or outthink the regulator and the Government in order to generate profit.
gloss: To perform premeditated seduction strategy.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: Returning briefly to his journalistic persona to interview Britney Spears, he finds himself gaming her, and she gives him her phone number.
A business associate of mine at the time, George Wu, sat across the way, gaming a stripper the way I taught him.
How did Amanda know she wasn’t getting gamed? Well, she didn’t. “I would wonder, ‘Is he saying stuff to other girls that he says to me?’ We did everything we could to cut it off […] yet we somehow couldn’t.”
Derived words: game is game
gameness
game as Ned Kelly
gamer
game the system
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