May-game n.
In phrases
to play games with, to trick or deceive.
![]() | [trans.] Cervantes Don Quixote 175: [I]f I cannot accomplish my ends, can she have a greater hatred, then for the Person, on whom she had bestow’d such marks of her favour, merely to make a May-game of her Credulity? [ibid.] 448: I’le pay my Barbers I’le warrant yee—if they think to make a May-game of Me: but let ’em fairly bring a Comb. | |
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