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thimblerig
[ thim-buhl-rig ]
noun
- a sleight-of-hand swindling game in which the operator palms a pellet or pea while appearing to cover it with one of three thimblelike cups, and then, moving the cups about, offers to bet that no one can tell under which cup the pellet or pea lies.
verb (used with object)
thimblerigged, thimblerigging.
- to cheat by or as by the thimblerig.
thimblerig
/ ˈθɪ³¾²úÉ™±ôËŒ°ùɪɡ /
noun
- a game in which the operator rapidly moves about three inverted thimbles, often with sleight of hand, one of which conceals a token, the other player betting on which thimble the token is under
verb
- tr to cheat or swindle, as in this game
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Derived Forms
- ˈ³Ù³ó¾±³¾²ú±ô±ðËŒ°ù¾±²µ²µ±ð°ù, noun
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms
- ³Ù³ó¾±³¾î€ƒb±ô±ð·°ù¾±²µî€…g±ð°ù noun
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of thimblerig1
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of thimblerig1
C19: from thimble + rig (in obsolete sense: a trick, scheme)
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How terribly alike are all human rogueries, whether the scene be a conference at Vienna, or the tent of a thimblerig at Ascot!
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A Tory told me it was a second edition of the thimblerig speech, which, if so, will not do him good.
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"Well, well! and did they ever come the thimblerig on you?"
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