euchre
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 11
- Words With Friends
- 12
- Letters
- 6
Definition of euchre
2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
noun
- (countable, uncountable)A trump card game played by four players in two partnerships with a reduced deck of 24 cards.
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noun
- (countable, uncountable)A trump card game played by four players in two partnerships with a reduced deck of 24 cards.
verb
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To deceive or outwit.
“Well: he guesses They have euchred Mexico into some such Byzantine exercise, probably to do with the Americans. Perhaps the Russians.”
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Etymology
Possibly from German Juckerspiel, name of an eighteenth-century Alsatian card game, itself apparently a compound of Jucker (“joker?”, may be dialectal) + Spiel (“game”). Likely a doublet of joker.
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