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pisha paysha|ˈpɪʃə ˈpeɪʃə|
Also pisha pasha.
[App. a corruption of pitch (or peace) and patience.]
A Jewish card game resembling patience, played by two persons, in which the cards are taken as they come from the pack, the object being to arrange them in an upward or downward sequence until the pack is exhausted, when the player who has the fewer cards in his hand is declared the winner.
1928Weekly Dispatch 27 May 13/2 Faded photographs of the Yiddish stars of yesterday hung on the walls; most of the people looked up when we came in, but two heavy, blue-chinned fellows continued their game of pisha pasha and another smiled a greeting across the top of a Jewish evening paper. 1968L. Rosten Joys of Yiddish 288, I was taught to play pisha paysha by my father, when I was six or seven. |