Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A game of cards for two to four persons, played with a special deck of 48 cards, with points being scored by taking tricks and forming certain combinations.
- n. The combination of the queen of spades and jack of diamonds in this game.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. See penuchle.
Wiktionary
- n. card games A card game, similar to bezique.
- n. card games A meld of jack of diamonds and queen of spades in said card game.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A game at cards, played with forty-eight cards, being all the cards above the eight spots in two packs.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a card game played with a pack of forty-eight cards (two of each suit for high cards); play resembles whist
Etymologies
- Perhaps from German dialectal Binokel, beziquelike card game, from French dialectal binocle, spectacles, from New Latin bīnoculus, the two eyes : Latin bīnī, two each; see dwo- in Indo-European roots + Latin oculus, eye; see okw- in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Interesting that “marriage” is a type of meld in pinochle (king and queen of the same suit).”
“In fact, one of the things he did when he went to New York was that he went to the Waiters Club in New York, and has an - he was a fiend for pinochle, which is - is it "pin-oakley" or "pin-ockle"?”
“This brought the verb meld into much wider circulation than it ever had before, though it had been recorded from the 1880s in connection with other card games, such as pinochle and rummy.”
“I did play pinochle in college (but only when I couldn’t find a foursome for bridge), but I never really put together the use of the word “meld” in pinochle with any general definition — I just assumed it was a specialized term in pinochle & never gave it any thought (sort of how most people play pinochle, which is why I much preferred bridge).”
“It was the kind of a hat which was known in that city as a "pinochle"; pronounced "pea-knuckle" by all well-informed boys.”
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“He and his card rivals wore fedoras and smoked and played vicious rounds of pinochle.”
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“The mobsters proved themselves as cold-blooded murderers and often reminisced about their hits while playing pinochle.”
“New York Mayor Fiorello La Guardia said, "I do not want any of the pinochle club atmosphere to take hold among city workers.”
“The pollen, pet dander, mildew, and just good old dirt are constantly flowing in my house! pinochle Says:”
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“Reality: One of them, Agnes, who has thin dingy gray hair, lips moist with slobber, and is as tall as she is wide, brayed at me that she and her friends where supposed to meet my grandmother there to play pinochle, but that my grandmother wasn't home yet.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘pinochle’.
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Any words List Its open!!
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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Pinochle
List of terms used in the card game pinochle, beginning with meld and trick.
meld, trick, widow, widow's hand, talon, kitty, trump, trump suit, bid, contract, run, marriage and 63 more...
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Short of a Full Deck
A list of playing card games employing fewer cards than the typical 52-card deck.
pinochle, Skat, piquet, belote, Doppelkopf, Tarot, tarock, tarocco, hanafuda, sixty-six, Schnapsen, ulti and 32 more...
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Chained Bear's Favorite Words
peruvian, sparky, poop, etymological, fuck, whatnot, pulchritude, nosh, tetched, quotidian, squalid, trajectory and 388 more...
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the omnibus
preponderance, idioglossia, acumen, heteronym, flux, anacoluthon, metonymy, impetus, constellation, exegesis, revelatory, cloistered and 877 more...
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dienekes's Words
chutzpah, lexicon, intrepid, pedagogical, schlemiel, schism, erudite, anathema, pugilist, jaunty, paradigm, automaton and 949 more...
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Interesting Scrabble words
Interesting words worth @ least 15 points.
smoochy, zareba, hyphal, djellaba, cloque, pyxidium, qindarka, squiffy, howbeit, chthonic, quinta, azimuthal and 262 more...
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Let's Play
Classic Children's Toys and Games and Amusements
colorforms, jacks, hopscotch, louisville slugger, duncan imperial, flexible flyer, radio flyer, troll doll, dam doll, pick-up sticks, silly putty, marbles and 155 more...
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Underworld
Don DeLillo
roily, reverie, slidy, bandido, mohair, brilliantine, stupe, juke step, jowly, juke, wicket, quidbit and 391 more...
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Just 'cause I like 'em, P
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Eine kleine Wörterwunderkammer
Verbal curios, because of their meaning, their shape, or their history.
phlogiston, tisane, ptisan, phthisis, fimbulwinter, zarf, mono no aware, woodwose, psychopomp, jabot, chatelaine, tappen and 82 more...
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Words I don't like
crisp, toes, bugaboo, taut, frickin, schmear, winningest, knapsack, supper, tumbler, pee, soap scum and 22 more...
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meld
A contemplation of the indo european root meaning of meldh-.
All lists are melds.lightening, enlightening, mix, blend, weld, meld, merge, emerge, coalesce, canasta, fuse, commingle and 27 more...
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I Fold.
Card games with weird and/or unpronounceable names.
pinochle, euchre, schafkopf, clobyosh, hornafjarðarmanni, bourré
Tweets
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hernesheir In the game of pinochle, the jack of diamonds and queen of spades held in the dealt hand, scored as 40 points. Jun 28, 2010
rolig It delights me that this word rhymes with "buckle". Jul 20, 2008