mistigri

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English

Alternative forms

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] French

Noun

mistigri (uncountable)

  1. A card game, resembling poker, in which the joker is used.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for mistigri”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)


French

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French miste ‘playful name for cat’ + gris 'grey'.

Pronunciation

Noun

mistigri m (plural mistigris)

  1. (archaic) cat, malkin
  2. Jack of Clubs

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