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prettygoodwordgamble (GAM-buhl) - to play any game of chance for money or other stakes.
Plus extended meanings. This is another where a sound change obscures the stem: it's game + frequentive -le, and some time between Middle English and Modern English, a /b/ got assimilated in there.
---L.
Plus extended meanings. This is another where a sound change obscures the stem: it's game + frequentive -le, and some time between Middle English and Modern English, a /b/ got assimilated in there.
---L.
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Date: 2024-08-22 07:48 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-08-22 08:07 pm (UTC)I hadn't either -- thus the theme. It's been great.