trangram

English

Etymology

From Old English trangrain (“a strange thing”), trangame (“a toy”). See tangram.

Noun

trangram (plural trangrams)

  1. (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? […] "

References
  • trangram in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
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