charades

名词 n. 动词 v.

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. plural of charade form-of,plural
  2. A game in which each player acts out a word or phrase, usually based on puns of each syllable and without speaking, for the others to guess. uncountable
    — […] it looked like a house where they played charades, where there would be long streamers of evergreen and dozens of wreaths of holly at Christmas-time, where there were tearful, happy weddings and great throwings of rice after little brides […]
动词 v.
  1. third-person singular simple present indicative of charade form-of,indicative,present,singular,third-person

词源

词源 1
See charade. As a game, originally a clipped form of acting charades or, without talking, dumb charades but now usually understood as a plurale tantum.
词源 2
See charade. As a game, originally a clipped form of acting charades or, without talking, dumb charades but now usually understood as a plurale tantum.
词源 3
See charade. As a game, originally a clipped form of acting charades or, without talking, dumb charades but now usually understood as a plurale tantum.
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