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jass
English
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Alemannic German Jass.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /jas/
Noun
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, p. 244:
- Jass is similar to bridge, though with completely different cards, and is a national obsession, for young and old alike.
- 2014, Donal McLaughlin, translating Arno Camenisch, 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.
- 1986, Kenneth Hsu, The Great Dying:
Further reading
- jass on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- An explanation of the card game's rules
Etymology 2
Obsolete and variant forms.
Noun
jass (uncountable)
- Obsolete spelling of jazz
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 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.”
- 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage 2007, p. 417:
Icelandic
Noun
jass m (genitive singular jass, no plural)
- Alternative form of djass
Declension
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jars
English
Noun
jars
- plural of jar
Verb
jars
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of jar
French
Etymology
Probably from Frankish *gard (“spike, stick”) (with reference to the male's penis). See also however Gaulish garanos ("crane")
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?a?/
Noun
jars m (plural jars)
- gander (male goose)
Related terms
- oie
Further reading
- “jars” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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