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play-dough (n.)[play-dough 词源字典]: 1959, from play + dough.[play-dough etymology, play-dough origin, 英语词源]
play-list (n.): also playlist, 1975 in the radio station sense, from play (v.) + list (n.).
play-pen (n.): also playpen, 1931, from play + pen (n.2).
play-time (n.): also playtime, 1660s in the recreational sense, from play (n.) + time (n.).
playbook (n.): also play-book, 1530s, "book of stage plays," from play (n.) + book (n.). Meaning "Book of football plays" recorded from 1965.
playboy (n.): 1829, "wealthy bon vivant," from play (v.) + boy. Fem. equivalent playgirl first recorded 1934. As the name of a U.S. based magazine for men, from December 1953.
player (n.): Old English plegere, agent noun from play (v.). Stage sense is from mid-15c. As a pimp's word for himself (also playa), attested from 1974. Player-piano attested from 1901.
playful (adj.): mid-13c., from play (v.) + -ful. Related: Playfully; playfulness.
playground (n.): 1780, from play (v.) + ground (n.). Old English had plegstow "village sports ground," literally "place for play."
playhouse (n.): late Old English pleghus; see play (n.) + house (n.).
playmate (n.): 1640s, "companion, playfellow," from play (v.) + mate (n.). The sexual sense is from 1954 and the launch of "Playboy" magazine.
plaything (n.): 1670s, from play (v.) + thing.
playwright (n.): 1680s, from play (n.) + wright.
plaza (n.): 1830, from Spanish plaza "square, place," from Vulgar Latin *plattia, from Latin platea "courtyard, broad street" (see place (n.)).
plea (n.): early 13c., "lawsuit," from Anglo-French plai (late 12c.), Old French plait "lawsuit, decision, decree" (9c.), from Medieval Latin placitum "lawsuit," in classical Latin, "opinion, decree," literally "that which pleases, thing which is agreed upon," properly neuter past participle of placere (see please). Sense development seems to be from "something pleasant," to "something that pleases both sides," to "something that has been decided." Meaning "a pleading, an agreement in a suit" is attested from late 14c. Plea-bargaining is first attested 1963. Common pleas (early 13c.) originally were legal proceedings over which the Crown did not claim exclusive jurisdiction (as distinct from pleas of the Crown); later "actions brought by one subject against another."
plead (v.): mid-13c., "make a plea in court," from Anglo-French pleder, Old French plaidier, "plead at court" (11c.), from Medieval Latin placitare, from Late Latin placitum (see plea). Sense of "request, beg" first recorded late 14c. Related: Pleaded; pleading; pleadingly.
pleading (n.): late 13c., "the carrying on of a suit at court," verbal noun from plead (v.). Meaning "supplication, intercession" is from early 15c.
pleasance (n.): late 14c., from Old French plaisance "pleasure, delight, enjoyment," from plaisant (see pleasant).
pleasant (adj.): late 14c. (early 14c. as a surname), from Old French plaisant "pleasant, pleasing, agreeable" (12c.), present participle of plaisir "to please" (see please). Pleasantry has the word's modern French sense of "funny, jocular." Related: Pleasantly.
pleasantry (n.): "sprightly humor in conversation," 1650s, from French plaisanterie "joke, jest; joking, jesting," from plaisant (see pleasant). Related: Pleasantries.