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noun
1.
a tournament.
verb (used without object)
2.
to contend or engage in a tournament.
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Tourney
is one of our favorite verbs.
So is skedaddle. Does it mean:
| to introduce subtleties into or argue subtly about. |
| to run away hurriedly; flee. |
Origin:
1300–50; (v.) Middle English tourneyen < Old French torneier < Vulgar Latin *tornidiāre to wheel, keep turning; (noun) Middle English tourneie < Old French tournei, derivative of tourneier. See turn
1300–50; (v.) Middle English tourneyen < Old French torneier < Vulgar Latin *tornidiāre to wheel, keep turning; (noun) Middle English tourneie < Old French tournei, derivative of tourneier. See turn
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Word Origin & History
tourney
c.1300, from O.Fr. tornei (c.1150), from torneier "to joust, tilt," lit. "turn around," from V.L. *tornizare, from L. tornare "to turn" (see turn). The noun also is attested from c.1300.
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