Etymology

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Today it means: A trump card game played by four players in two partnerships with a reduced deck of 24 cards. Full definition →

German Juckerspiel
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  1. German · borrowed fromJuckerspiel
  2. English todayeuchre

Possibly from German Juckerspiel, name of an eighteenth-century Alsatian card game, itself apparently a compound of Jucker + Spiel (“game”). Likely a doublet of joker.

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