charade
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A genre of riddles where the clues to the answer are descriptions or puns on its syllables, with a final clue to the whole.
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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 described in Thackeray’s Vanity Fair.
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A play resembling the game charades, particularly due to poor acting.
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A deception or pretense, originally an absurdly obvious one but now in general use.
This whole charade is absurd.
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A form of wordplay where several words are placed together to form a new word or part thereof.
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To act out a charade (of); to gesture; to pretend.
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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.
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