charade
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charade
- /ʃəˈɹɑːd/ UK
- /ʃəˈɹeɪd/ US
Rhymes with -ɑːd, -eɪd
Where it comes from
From French charade, charrade (“prattle, idle conversation; a kind of riddle”), probably from Occitan charrada (“conversation; chatter”), from charrar (“to chat; to chatter”) + -ada. As a round of the game, originally a clipping of acting charade but now usually understood and formed as a back-formation from charades.
noun charades
- A genre of riddles where the clues to the answer are descriptions or puns on its syllables, with a final clue to the whole. CHARADE, a trifling species of composition, or quasi-literary form of amusement, which may perhaps be best defined as a punning enigma propounded in a series of descriptions. A word is taken of two or more syllables, each forming a distinct word; each of these is described in verse or prose, as aptl
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A single round of the game charades, an acted form of the earlier riddles.
...The most popular form of this amusement is the acted charade, in which the meaning of the different syllables is acted out on the stage, the audience being left to guess each syllable and thus, combining the meaning of all the syllables, the whole word. A brilliant example of the acted charade is
Similar: acted charade, dumb charade
- A play resembling the game charades, particularly due to poor acting.
- A deception or pretense, originally an absurdly obvious one but now in general use. This whole charade is absurd.
- A form of wordplay where several words are placed together to form a new word or part thereof. Sometimes the tricks above may be used in combination: a homophone may come in two pieces like a charade (RAINBOW sounding like REIGN + BEAU) or a charade may be reversed (TACKLE having ELK + CAT backwards).
verb charades · charading · charaded
- To act out a charade (of); to gesture; to pretend. I'm not trying to say: let's try to get away from power rituals because power manifestation is a very important part of sex. It is when it takes the form of charading gay punishment, punishing one of our own in order to allow him a gay contact.
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noun riddle
| Español | charada |
|---|---|
| Português | charada |
| Français | charade |
| Deutsch | Scharade, Silbenrätsel, Versrätsel |
| Italiano | sciarada |
| Русский | шара́да šaráda |
noun acted form of the earlier riddles
| Deutsch | Scharade, pantomimisches Rätsel |
|---|
noun absurd deception
| Português | charada, farsa |
|---|---|
| Deutsch | Scharade, Farce, Affentheater, Affenzirkus, unwürdiges Schauspiel, Schmierenkomödie |
| Italiano | farsa |
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