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▪ I. euchre, n.|ˈjuːkə(r)|
Formerly also uker, yuker, eucre.
[Of uncertain etymology.
As bower n.8, one of the terms used in this game, is of Ger. origin, it has often been supposed that the word euchre is also from German, but no probable source has been found in that lang. Can it be a. Sp. yuca, in the phrase ser yuca, given by Caballero as an American expression for ‘to be cock of the walk, to get the best in anything’ (ser el gallito en alguna cosa, sobresalir en algo)?]
1. A game at cards, of American origin, played by 2, 3, or 4 persons, with a pack of 32 cards (the 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 of each suit being rejected). A player may, if he pleases, ‘pass’ or decline to play, but if he undertakes to play, and fails to take 3 tricks, he or his side is said to be ‘euchred’ and the other side gains two points.
The highest cards at Euchre are the knave of trumps and the other knave of the same colour (see bower n.8); the other cards used rank as in whist. There are various modifications of the game, as Railroad Euchre, played with the usual 32 cards and an extra blank card called ‘the joker’, or ‘imperial trump’, which is superior to all; French Euchre, played with 24 cards; and others.
1846in Smedes & Marshall Rep. High Court App. Mississippi (1847) 60 No matter whether defendants played at pool, whist, uker, poker, etc. Ibid., Whist, yuker, brag, etc. 1850(title), The game of Euchre, with its Laws. 1856Mayne Reid Quadroon xlvii, The thing was impossible, as I had never played euchre. 1863Dicey Federal St. II. 57 The men..played the mysterious game of ‘euchre.’ 1870B. Harte Heathen Chinee 21 We had a small game, And Ah Sin took a hand: It was euchre. The same he did not understand. 1872Mark Twain Roughing It xxiii, At night, by the camp-fire, we played euchre and seven up, to strengthen the mind. 1889Pall Mall G. 27 Feb. 3/2 Euchre was probably acclimatised on the Mississippi by the Canadian voyageurs, being a form of the French game of triomphe.
2. An instance of ‘euchreing’ or being ‘euchred’.
1880Amer. Hoyle 75 No. 1 deals, but..fearing a euchre, he turns down the trump.
Hence ˈeuchreist, a player at euchre.
1861W. H. Russell in Times 10 July, The sentry tells his captain, who is an euchreist, that ‘It's all right,’ and resumes his seat and his cigar.
▪ II. euchre, v.|ˈjuːkə(r)|
[f. prec. n.]
trans. At euchre: To gain the advantage over (an adversary) by his failure to take three tricks: see the n. Hence transf. to outwit, ‘do’, ‘best’. Also, to euchre (a person) out of (a thing).
c1866B. Harte Tennessee's Partner Wks. 1880 II. 141 ‘Euchred, old man!’ said Tennessee smiling. 1880in Webster (Suppl.) 1887Concord (N. Hamp.) Monitor 23 Mar., The stockholders..have been euchered out of their investments in Vermont railroads. |