jass
See also: Jass
English edit
Etymology 1 edit
Borrowed from Alemannic German Jass.
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
jass (uncountable)
- (card games) A trick-taking card game popular in Switzerland and neighboring areas of Germany and Austria.
- 1986, Kenneth Hsu, The Great Dying:
- A Swiss jass master and I teamed up against my wife and an American, who were both rank beginners.
- 2010, Diccon Bewes, Swiss Watching, page 244:
- Jass is similar to bridge, though with completely different cards, and is a national obsession, for young and old alike.
- 2014, Arno Camenisch, translated by Donal McLaughlin, Behind the Station:
- When Nonna plays cards, she moves her teeth from side to side. It makes a bit of a racket. It distracts the other jass players – that's why Nonna's so good at jass.
Further reading edit
- jass on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- An explanation of the card game's rules
Etymology 2 edit
Obsolete and variant forms.
Noun edit
jass (uncountable)
- Obsolete spelling of jazz.
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 417:
- “Yet I've noticed the same thing when your band plays—the most amazing social coherence, as if you all shared the same brain.”
“Sure,” agreed “Dope,” “but you can't call that organization.”
“What do you call it?”
“Jass.”
Icelandic edit
Noun edit
jass m (genitive singular jass, no plural)
- Alternative form of djass
Declension edit
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