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单词 pinochle
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pinochlen.

Brit. /ˈpiːnʌkl/, /ˈpiːnɒkl/, U.S. /ˈpiˌnək(ə)l/, /ˈpiˌnɑkl/
Forms: 1800s binocle, 1800s peanukle, 1800s penuchle, 1800s penuckle, 1800s– pinochle, 1800s– pinocle.
Origin: A borrowing from German. Etymon: German Binokel.
Etymology: < German Binokel, the name of a card game (although this is perhaps first attested later in this sense: 1884 or earlier; 1825 or earlier in sense ‘binocular telescope’) < French binocle , literally ‘two-eyed’ (see binocle n.).The game is perhaps so called after the high-scoring combination of Jack and Queen, both cards traditionally showing a face in profile, or after the fact that it is played with two decks of cards.
North American.
A card game for two or more players, played with a pack of forty-eight cards consisting of two of each card from nine to ace, the object being to score points for various combinations and to win tricks. Also: the combination of the queen of spades and the jack of diamonds in this game.
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1864 W. B. Dick Amer. Hoyle 127 Bézique is fast becoming popular in the United States... It is known among our German brethren as Peanukle.
1888 W. B. Dick Amer. Hoyle (ed. 14) 153 If the Queen of Spades and Knave of Diamonds have been melded for Pinocle, that Queen cannot be used to combine with another Knave of Diamonds for a new Pinocle, and vice versa.
1891 S. Fiske Holiday Stories (Boston ed.) vii. 171 ‘O, don't bother!’ cried the pinocle players.
1913 J. London Valley of Moon 406 Billy played at cutthroat pedro, horrible fives, bridge, and pinochle.
1960 E. L. Wallant Human Season (1965) vii. 68 ‘What could he have?’ Fox asked himself aloud. ‘Clubs is dead, he's got no pinochle.’
1988 L. Erdrich Tracks iv. 75 We..played a few hands of pinochle in the beaten dirt yard.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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