euchre

[LARSSON at vax1.mankato.msus.edu]

Tim wonders:
"Joining this group (a few weeks ago) has prompted me to reread _Vineland_,
and already I'm thrown by Zoyd's comment on p. 12 of my Minerva (red spine)
edition. He's just jumped thru the sugar glass window that he thought was
real, and gasps
 
'Euchred again, Hector, thanks.'
 
Bearing in mind the alleged 'basher'/'kosher' typo in _Lot 49_ (where,
remembering Pentecostal motif, any 'Euch/r-' words would be more apt),
shouldn't this be 'suchred again' - i.e. 'deceived (suckered) by means of
sugar glass (suchre)?' If so, an easy mistake: 'E' and 'S' are, after all,
keybd neighbours."


Euchre is a card game, and to be euchred, by extension, is a slang term meaning
to be outwitted or cheated.


Not unlike "suckered," at that!

Don Larsson, Mankato State U (MN)