PISHA PAYSHA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pisha paysha mean? 

• PISHA PAYSHA (noun)
  The noun PISHA PAYSHA has 1 sense:

1. (Yiddish) a card game for two players one of whom is usually a child; the deck is place face down with one card face upward; players draw from the deck alternately hoping to build up or down from the open card; the player with the fewest cards when the deck is exhausted is the winner

  Familiarity information: PISHA PAYSHA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PISHA PAYSHA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

(Yiddish) a card game for two players one of whom is usually a child; the deck is place face down with one card face upward; players draw from the deck alternately hoping to build up or down from the open card; the player with the fewest cards when the deck is exhausted is the winner

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("pisha paysha" is a kind of...):

card game; cards (a game played with playing cards)

Domain category:

Yiddish (a dialect of High German including some Hebrew and other words; spoken in Europe as a vernacular by many Jews; written in the Hebrew script)