Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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pisha paysha | Yes | No | No | No |
Yiddish | Yes | No | No | No |
pisha paysha (noun) | Yiddish (noun) |
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(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 | 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 |