tourney

== English == === Etymology === From Anglo-Norman turnei, from Old French tornei (“tournament”), from tornoier (“to joust, tilt”). === Pronunciation === (US) IPA(key): /ˈtɝni/, /ˈtʊɚni/ (UK) IPA(key): /ˈtʊə(ɹ)ni/, /ˈtɔː(ɹ)ni/ Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ni, -ʊə(ɹ)ni, -ɔː(ɹ)ni === Noun === tourney (plural tourneys or tournies) A tournament. c. 1620, anonymous, “Tom o’ Bedlam’s Song” in Giles Earle his Booke (British Museum, Additional MSS. 24, 665): By a knight of ghostes & shadowes,I sumon’d am to Tourney.ten leagues beyond the wide worlds endmee thinke it is noe iourney. === Verb === tourney (third-person singular simple present tourneys, present participle tourneying, simple past and past participle tourneyed) (archaic) To take part in a tournament. === Anagrams === you'ren't