Gamed vs Gawmed - What's the difference?

gamed | gawmed |

As verbs the difference between gamed and gawmed

is that gamed is (game) while gawmed is (gawm).

gamed

English

Verb

(head)

(game)

Anagrams

game

English

Noun

A playful or competitive activity.

#A playful activity that may be unstructured; an amusement or pastime.

#(label) An activity described by a set of rules, especially for the purpose of entertainment, often competitive or having an explicit goal.

#*1983 , Lawrence Lasker, Walter F. Parkes, and Walon Green, (WarGames) , MGM/UA Entertainment Co.:

#*:Joshua: Shall we play a game ?

#(label) A particular instance of playing a game; match .

#*:“I'm through with all pawn-games,” I laughed. “Come, let us have a game of lansquenet. Either I will take a farewell fall out of you or you will have your sevenfold revenge”.

#That which is gained, such as the stake in a game.

#The number of points necessary to win a game.

#(label) In some games, a point awarded to the player whose cards add up to the largest sum.

#(label) The equipment that enables such activity, particularly as packaged under a title.

#One's manner, style, or performance in playing a game.

A field of gainful activity, as an industry or profession.

Something that resembles a game with rules, despite not being designed.

*:I see you stand like greyhounds in the slips, straining upon the start. The game ’s afoot!

*:“I'm through with all pawn-games ,” I laughed. “Come, let us have a game of lansquenet. Either I will take a farewell fall out of you or you will have your sevenfold revenge”.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author=(Timothy Garton Ash)

, volume=189, issue=6, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli , passage=Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too.}}

An exercise simulating warfare, whether computerized or involving human participants.

(label) Wild animals hunted for food.

The ability to seduce someone, usually by strategy.

(label) A questionable or unethical practice in pursuit of a goal; a scheme.

*(Blackwood Magazine)

*:Your murderous game is nearly up.

*(George Saintsbury) (1845-1933)

*:It was obviously Lord Macaulay's game to blacken the greatest literary champion of the cause he had set himself to attack.

Synonyms

* See also * (synonyms to be checked) pastime, play, recreation, frolic, sport, diversion, fun, amusement, merriment, festivity, entertainment, spree, prank, lark, gambol, merrymaking, gaiety * (instance of gameplay) match * (field of gainful activity) line * (military) wargame * (business or occupation) racket * (questionable practices) racket

Antonyms

* (antonyms to be checked) drudgery, work, toil

Derived terms

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Adjective

(er)

(colloquial) Willing to participate.

* (rfdate) (computer game):

I'm game , would you like to tell me how [to do that]?

(of an animal) That shows a tendency to continue to fight against another animal, despite being wounded, often severely.

Persistent, especially in senses similar to the above.

Injured, lame (of a limb).

* around 1900 , O. Henry,

You come with me and we'll have a cozy dinner and a pleasant talk together, and by that time your game ankle will carry you home very nicely, I am sure."

Synonyms

* (willing to participate) sporting, willing, daring, disposed, favorable, nervy, courageous, valiant

Antonyms

* (willing to participate) cautious, disinclined

Verb

(gam)

To gamble.

To play games and be a gamer.

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.

We'll bury them in paperwork, and game the system.

(transitive, slang, of males) To perform premeditated seduction strategy.

* 2005 , " Picking up the pieces", The Economist , 6 October 2005:

Returning briefly to his journalistic persona to interview Britney Spears, he finds himself gaming her, and she gives him her phone number.

* 2010 , Mystery, The Pickup Artist: The New and Improved Art of Seduction , Villard Books (2010), ISBN 9780345518217, page 100:

A business associate of mine at the time, George Wu, sat across the way, gaming a stripper the way I taught him.

* 2010 , Sheila McClear, " Would you date a pickup artist?", New York Post , 9 July 2010:

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 terms

* game the system

Anagrams

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gawmed

English

Verb

(head)

(gawm)

gawm

English

Etymology 1

Noun

(en noun)

(foolish person).

* 1892 , The Awkward Squads'', in ''Littell's Living Age , volume 195, page 811:

"E-y-e-s front ! Och, luk in front av ye, for the love o' marcy, an' don't be bigger gawms than y'are." Again he took up his parade before the squad.

* 2002 , Joseph O'Conner, Star of the Sea , Vintage 2003, page 10:

The farmer would accuse his son of idleness; the son would retort that his father was a drunken gawm .

* 2013 , Flann O'Brien, O'Dea's Your Man'', in ''Collected Plays and Teleplays (ISBN 1564789888), page 417:

In twenty-wan years in this box I don't believe I've ever pulled down wan of those signal yokes without half-expecting a pint of stout to come out down below somewhere. And isn't it the right gawm I'd look if it did come.

Etymology 2

Verb

(en verb)

(lb)

* 1909 , Eugene Wood, The Merry Yule-Tide'', in ''The New England Magazine , page 438:

In just about a month to-morrow morning we'll crunch the candy into the rug at every step, and all we touch will be gawmed up and sticky.

* 1920 , The Monitor , page 13:

A nation cannot get anywhere if it has things gawmed up.

* 1905 , Charles Battell Loomis, Minerva's Manoeuvres: The Cheerful Facts , page 78:

"Might as well be dead as all gawmed up with that fly paper stuff."

Etymology 3

Verb

(en verb)

* 1885 , Mary Catherine Rowsell, Traitor Or Patriot?: A Tale of the Rye-house Plot , page 278:

"Ay, 'tis indeed," she went on, "and Mistress Ruth has eyes an' ears, an' uses 'em to better purpose than some folks I know" — and she threw a significant glance at her bewildered better half — "as can only stand gaffin' and gawmin' at a body."

* 1888 , W. R. Credland, A Farm in the Fens'', in the ''Papers of the Manchester Literary Club , volume 14, page 267:

“Now, yah ha done! and don't be gawming there, yah soft-headed chawbacon. Go hoam to yar mother!”

* 1897 , J. Carmichael, Man and Beast'', in the ''Monthly Packet , page 392:

‘There, be off with you! how can I figure with you standin' gawmin' at me there like a stuck pig with an orange in its mouth!’

* 1897 , James Prior, Ripple and Flood: A Novel , page 368:

"What does he want," she said, "gawmin' at me as if a wor a wild beast show?"