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shenanigans
English
Etymology
shenanigan +? -s.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /???næn??(?)nz/
- (General American) IPA(key): /???næn???nz/, /-??nz/
- Hyphenation: she?na?ni?gans
Noun
shenanigans pl (normally plural, singular shenanigan)
- (uncountable) Mischievous play, especially by children. [from mid 19th c.]
- (uncountable) Deceitful tricks; trickery, games. [from mid 19th c.]
- (countable) plural of shenanigan.
Synonyms
- (mischievous play): high jinks, hijinks
- (deceitful tricks): dirty tricks, hornswoggling, skulduggery
Derived terms
- shenaniganry, shenaniganery
- shenans (very colloquial)
Translations
Further reading
- shenanigans (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
shenanigans From the web:
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cheat
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t?i?t/
- Rhymes: -i?t
Etymology 1
From Middle English cheten, an aphetic variant of acheten, escheten, from Old French escheoiter, from the noun (see below). Displaced native Old English beswican.
Verb
cheat (third-person singular simple present cheats, present participle cheating, simple past and past participle cheated)
- (intransitive) To violate rules in order to gain advantage from a situation.
- Synonym: break the rules
- (intransitive) To be unfaithful to one's spouse or partner.
- (transitive) To manage to avoid something even though it seemed inevitable.
- (transitive) To deceive; to fool; to trick.
- Synonyms: belirt, blench, lirt
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English chete, an aphetic form of eschete, escheat (“the reversion of property to the state if there are no legal claimants”), from Anglo-Norman escheat, Old French eschet, escheit, escheoit (“that which falls to one”), from the past participle of eschoir (“to fall”) (modern French échoir), from Vulgar Latin *excad?, from Latin ex + cad? (“I fall”).
Noun
cheat (plural cheats)
- Someone who cheats.
- Synonym: (informal) cheater
- An act of deception or fraud; that which is the means of fraud or deception.
- Synonyms: fraud, trick, imposition, imposture
- The weed cheatgrass.
- (card games) A card game where the goal is to have no cards remaining in a hand, often by telling lies.
- Synonyms: bullshit, BS, I doubt it
- (video games) A hidden means of gaining an unfair advantage in a video game, often by entering a cheat code.
- 1992, Phil Howard, Cheat Mode (in Amstrad Action issue 76, January 1992, page 32)
- I've had a number of requests for a cheat for Turrican the first. Yes, there is a keypress built in […]
- 1992, Phil Howard, Cheat Mode (in Amstrad Action issue 76, January 1992, page 32)
Synonyms
- double play
Translations
Derived terms
Descendants
- ? French: cheat
- ? German: Cheat
Further reading
- cheat (game) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- 'tache, Tache, Taché, Teach, Tâche, chate, he-cat, tache, teach, theca
French
Etymology
English cheat
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /t?it/
Noun
cheat m (plural cheats)
- (video games) cheat
cheat From the web:
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