euchre

English

Etymology

From German Juckerspiel, name of an eighteenth-century Alsatian card game, itself apparently a compound of Jucker (“jack”) + Spiel (“game”).[1]

Pronunciation

IPA(key): /ˈjuːkəɹ/

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Noun

euchre (countable and uncountable, plural euchres)

  1. (card games) A trump card game played by four players in two partnerships with a reduced deck of 24 cards.

Translations

Verb

euchre (third-person singular simple present euchres, present participle euchring, simple past and past participle euchred)

  1. To deceive or outwit.
    • 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow:
      Well: he guesses They have euchred Mexico into some such Byzantine exercise, probably to do with the Americans. Perhaps the Russians.

References

  1. ↑ 2008, The Penguin Book of Card Games, David Parlett, Penguin UK, →ISBN, text here.
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