Submitted by goossun on July 23, 2004
Can anyone give an example of verbal “charade” plesae?
July 23, 2004, 11:34am
Could this be a clue? Found this partial definition:
"charade : n 1: a composition that imitates somebody's style in a humorous way [syn: parody, lampoon, spoof, sendup, mockery, takeoff, burlesque, travesty, pasquinade, put-on]"
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July 23, 2004, 1:30pm
Could you expand a little on what you mean by "verbal charade"? Perhaps you could give us the context in which you've heard that phrase?
July 23, 2004, 8:19pm
OK. Webster online says "A verbal or acted enigma based upon a word which has two or more significant syllables or parts, each of which, as well as the word itself, is to be guessed from the descriptions or representations."So I did not have any example to see what it could really be like.http://www.webster-dictionary.org/definition/ch...
July 24, 2004, 6:39am
In that case, I'm not sure. I've never known Charades as a game to be played in any other way than mime.
July 24, 2004, 6:41am
Although... from the Webster definition, I guess it could be something like this:
Website, four words:First word - sheet of glassFourth word - name of a language
(Answer: Pain in the English)
Is that the kind of example you were looking for?
July 30, 2004, 8:28pm
in GAMES magazine, every issue has two wicked cryptic crosswords. One type of answer is called a charade - where the answer is broken into smaller words, which are clued individually.
For example, the clue "Auto animal" yields the answer CARPET.
October 29, 2004, 12:13pm
don't not get what your want me to do!!!!!!!
me again!! (unregistered)
October 29, 2004, 12:15pm
I get it now I think it means that its something you guess on and I have never answered a question like this before on the computer
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