单词 | pisha paysha |
释义 | pisha payshan. Among Ashkenazic Jews: a card game resembling beggar-my-neighbour, in which two players attempt to match cards from the pack in an ascending or descending sequence until all the playable cards are used up, the winner being the player who has the fewest cards remaining. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > patience or solitaire > [noun] > varieties of spider1890 demon1893 Miss Milligan1899 Klondike1902 Canfield1912 poker patience1912 clock solitaire1919 pisha paysha1928 clock patience1937 1928 Weekly Disp. 27 May 13/2 Two heavy, blue-chinned fellows continued their game of pisha pasha and another smiled a greeting across the top of a Jewish evening paper. 1934 L. Golding Five Silver Daughters i. 15 So Mr Silver took out the cards and they played ‘Pishy-pashy’. 1979 M. Mosco Almonds & Raisins (1980) I. ii. 40 And maybe you think I sit shpeiling with the cards all day, playing pisha-paysha like the old men in the marketplace at home. 1994 Jewish Jrnl. (Nexis) 6 Jan. 38 a In the evenings, I would remember his 1001 hands of Pisha-Paysha long before Milton Berle and the tube invaded the living room. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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