Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A word puzzle, such as an anagram or one in which clues are given in a set of verses.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A riddle; specifically, a riddle formed by the arbitrary or confused mingling of parts or elements, which have to be recombined in proper order for the answer.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A sort of riddle in which it is required to discover a chosen word from various combinations of its letters, or of some of its letters, which form other words; -- thus, to discover the chosen word
chatter formcat ,hat ,rat ,hate ,rate , etc.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of several
word puzzles in which theclues are inverse
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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With a little effort, I might, like any one else, be able to give you an interpretation of this logogriph, which might appear to have something in it.
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I might, like any one else, be able to give you an interpretation of this logogriph, which might appear to have something in it.
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I might, like any one else, be able to give you an interpretation of this logogriph, which might appear to have something in it.
George Sand, some aspects of her life and writings Ren�� Doumic 1898
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[FN#134] A fair specimen of the Arab logogriph derived from the
Arabian nights. English Anonymous 1855
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134 A fair specimen of the Arab logogriph derived from the Abjad Alphabet which contains only the Hebrew and Syriac letters not the six Arabic.
qms commented on the word logogriph
A puzzle whose parts are hint and glyph
May amuse but remain a bit stiff.
But muddle the middle
For a much odder riddle,
So sow confusion with a logogriph.
April 24, 2014