gask
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Swedish
Alternative forms
- (Archaic and jocular) gasque
Etymology
Uncertain.
Likely borrowed from Italian casco and Spanish cascarela, cáscara. Originally a term in the cardgame l'Hombre, later incorporated with the game Vira, later incorporated with student slang. First attested in 1734.[1]
Noun
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- (card games) A bid in l'Hombre.
- (card games) A somewhat high and adventurous bid in Vira.
- A type of (more or less) formal (university) student party.
Declension
Declension of gask
In sense 3:
Declension of gask
Derived terms
References
- gask in Elof Hellquist, Svensk etymologisk ordbok (1st ed., 1922)