Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A bridge or whist hand containing no honor cards.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In whist or bridge, a hand which contains no card above a nine: so called because a former Earl of Yarborough made a practice of betting 1,000 to 1 against any player's holding such a hand. The true odds against it are 1,827 to 1.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
hand , inbridge orwhist , that has nocard with a value greater than nine
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Poor little Jill, who by involuntarily harking back to the insular belief that the veriest heathen will quake in unison with the British culprit at the mere threat of British law, showed the absolute yarborough she held in this game, the stakes of which she guessed were something more precious than life itself, and in which she held not a single winning card.
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fbharjo commented on the word yarborough
Is this fair? (a la Simon & Garfunkel)... scarborough fair
April 28, 2009
yarb commented on the word yarborough
It seems fair enough to me, but what I want to know is the identity of the third person listing this.
April 28, 2009
fbharjo commented on the word yarborough
Go ask John. The third person is faceless much like the definition of the word, yarborough.... a card hand with no card higher than a nine - no face card, in other words. capisci?
April 28, 2009
yarb commented on the word yarborough
Careful fb, you're in danger of becoming comprehensible!
April 28, 2009
fbharjo commented on the word yarborough
Yarb, I'll try not to hold on (prehense) too long. Single digit cards are a language of their own. i.e. (ace, deuce, trey,..........It ......)I might get cincoed. A classmate in college called me " a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma; but perhaps there is a key." He got the quote from Winston Churchill
April 28, 2009
plethora commented on the word yarborough
Two people listing it on the same list?
Edit: Yep, bilby and fbharjo have both added it to the Whole Nine Yarbs.
April 28, 2009