Anonymous ID: 20c063 Oct. 25, 2023, 8:22 p.m. No.19803826   🗄️.is 🔗kun

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Card – a witty or eccentric person, a "character." "The Card" is a 1911 novel by Arnold Bennett. "The word is now much less common, but it was formerly often preceded by a stock adjective, such as 'a knowing card,' 'an old card,'…" etc.

"The term itself was perhaps suggested by a phrase such as 'sure card,' meaning a winning card…Alternatively, there may be a pun on Latin 'carduus,' meaning thistle, as an instrument for combing and teasing cloth to raise its nap. The role of a card is similar." From Brewer's Dictionary of Phrase and Fable revised by Adrian Room (HarperCollinsPublishers, New York, 1999, Sixteenth Edition). Page 231.