Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Word of the day: cardsharp

The word of the day is cardsharp:

card-sharp n. (orig. U.S.) a card-sharper.  
card-sharper n. one who makes a trade of cheating at cards. (OED)


"In previous books, the author—a poet with the mind of a cardsharp—has seemed giddy with his powers of invention, as his heroes (a mnemonist, a pamphleteer) scramble through labyrinths (a sanitarium for chronic liars, an inverted skyscraper plunging hundreds of feet underground)."


 - "Books Briefly Noted", of Jesse Ball's The Curfew, 11 & 18 July 2011 The New Yorker

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