different between gamed vs gamer

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?e?md/

Verb

gamed

1. simple past tense and past participle of game

Anagrams

• Madge, madge

English

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /??e?m?/
• Rhymes: -e?m?(r)

Etymology 1

From Middle English gamer, attested since before 1450 as a common noun and possibly since 1248 in the name of one Johannes le Gamer. Equivalent to game (“noun”) +? -er (“agent suffix”).

Noun

gamer (plural gamers)

1. A person who plays any kind of game.
   • 1422, Code of Laws of Walsall:

     […] any dice-player, carder, tennis player, or other unlawful gamer.

   • 2002, Gary Alan Fine, Shared Fantasy: Role Playing Games as Social Worlds (page 93)

     These dice are the gamers' weapons […]

2. A person whose hobby is video games.
   • 2019, The Scottish Parliament, Motion S5M-15504 [1]

3. A person who games the system.
4. (obsolete) A gambler
   • 1845 The Head Quarters, Volume III, Number 22 (December 19, 1845)

     The gamer is farther from restoration even than the drunkard, because what he does he does in the light of sobriety and reason.

5. (Can we verify⁽⁺⁾ this sense?) (derogatory, Internet slang) A person with racist or bigoted views.

Translations

Descendants

• ? Gulf Arabic: ????? (g?mar)
• ? Danish: gamer
• ? French: gamer

Etymology 2

game (“adjective”) +? -er (“former of comparatives”)

Adjective

gamer

1. comparative form of game: more game

References

• Gamer on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• “gamer”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, ?ISBN
• “gamer” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.

References

Anagrams

• Mager, Marge, e-gram, grame, marge, regma

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English gamer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [????jm?]

Noun

gamer c (singular definite gameren, plural indefinite gamere)

1. gamer

Inflection

References

• “gamer” in Den Danske Ordbog

Anagrams

• magre

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English gamer. Equivalent to gamen +? -er.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??e?.m?r/
• Hyphenation: ga?mer

Noun

gamer m (plural gamers)

1. A gamer, someone who plays video games.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English gamer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.mœ?/
• Homophone: gamers

Noun

gamer m (plural gamers)

1. A person whose hobby is video games.
2. A high-end laptop designed to play video games.

Malay

Etymology

From Proto-Malayic, from Proto-Malayo-Polynesian, from Proto-Austronesian.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?amer/
• Rhymes: -mer, -er, -r

Noun

gamer (Jawi spelling ?????, informal 1st possessive gamerku, impolite 2nd possessive gamermu, 3rd possessive gamernya)

1. hesitate to want to make something out of shame etc.

See also

• janggal (“awkward”)
• malu (“shame”)
• teragak-agak (“hesitate”)

Further reading

• “gamer” in Pusat Rujukan Persuratan Melayu | Malay Literary Reference Centre, Kuala Lumpur: Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka, 2017.

Spanish

Noun

gamer m or f (plural gameres)

1. gamer