euchre

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

  1. noun a card game similar to ecarte; each player is dealt 5 cards and the player making trump must take 3 tricks to win a hand

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.

In classic literature

Synonyms

five hundred

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