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gamblerlike

adj

Etymology

From gambler + -like.

  1. derived from gæmnian
  2. derived from gamenen
  3. inherited from *gamlen✻
  4. formed as gambler — “gamble + -er”
  5. suffixed as gamblerlike — “gambler + like”

Definitions

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a gambler.

    • He had risked all his fortune on one cast of the die, and, gamblerlike, had lost everything.
    • I knew that if I failed it would kill my parents, who, gamblerlike, were staking their very existence on my success.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA