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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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jaws
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /d????z/
- (cot–caught merger, Canada) IPA(key): /d???z/
- Rhymes: -??z
Noun
jaws
- plural of jaw
Noun
jaws
- (plural only) the mouth
- (plural only) the borders of anything which has a mouthlike aspect.
- Open the jaws of the wrench and wide as possible.
- The red wobbled in the jaws of the pocket, but didn't go down.
- (colloquial, eastern Ohio) a contrarian.
Verb
jaws
- Third-person singular simple present indicative form of jaw
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