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PISHA PAYSHA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(Yiddish) a card game for two players one of whom is usually a child; the deck is place face down with one card face upward; players draw from the deck alternately hoping to build up or down from the open card; the player with the fewest cards when the deck is exhausted is the winner
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("pisha paysha" is a kind of...):
card game; cards (a game played with playing cards)
Domain category:
Yiddish (a dialect of High German including some Hebrew and other words; spoken in Europe as a vernacular by many Jews; written in the Hebrew script)
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