单词 | pinochle |
释义 | pinochlen. North American. A card game for two or more players, played with a pack of forty-eight cards consisting of two of each card from nine to ace, the object being to score points for various combinations and to win tricks. Also: the combination of the queen of spades and the jack of diamonds in this game. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > bezique > [noun] > varieties of pinochle1864 Rubicon1873 belote1925 1864 W. B. Dick Amer. Hoyle 127 Bézique is fast becoming popular in the United States... It is known among our German brethren as Peanukle. 1888 W. B. Dick Amer. Hoyle (ed. 14) 153 If the Queen of Spades and Knave of Diamonds have been melded for Pinocle, that Queen cannot be used to combine with another Knave of Diamonds for a new Pinocle, and vice versa. 1891 S. Fiske Holiday Stories (Boston ed.) vii. 171 ‘O, don't bother!’ cried the pinocle players. 1913 J. London Valley of Moon 406 Billy played at cutthroat pedro, horrible fives, bridge, and pinochle. 1960 E. L. Wallant Human Season (1965) vii. 68 ‘What could he have?’ Fox asked himself aloud. ‘Clubs is dead, he's got no pinochle.’ 1988 L. Erdrich Tracks iv. 75 We..played a few hands of pinochle in the beaten dirt yard. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1864 |
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