trangram
English
Etymology
From Old English trangrain (“a strange thing”), trangame (“a toy”). See tangram.
Noun
trangram (plural trangrams)
- (obsolete) Something intricately contrived; a puzzle.
- 1712, John Arbuthnot, The History of John Bull:
- "Heyday! what's here? what a devil's the meaning of all these trangrams and gimcracks, gentlemen? […] "
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References
- trangram in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913