Definitions for primero

primero pri·me·ro

Spelling: [pri-mair-oh]
IPA: /prɪˈmɛər oʊ/

Primero is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 138 anagrams from letters in primero (eimoprr).

Definitions for primero

noun

  1. a card game fashionable in England in the 16th and 17th centuries.

Origin of primero

1525-35; Spanish: literally, first Latin prīmārius primary

Examples for primero

primero, or ombre, is said to be the ancestor of our modern game of poker.

Near them play was going on at one table, and primero at a second.

The rules of primero moreover demand that if there are but two players, a third and disinterested party shall deal the cards.

No; but we shall find ourselves nearly on the banks of the river primero, and might set ourselves adrift on a raft.

REST, "set up one's—," venture one's all, one's last stake (from game of primero).

primero, whom Mr. Longestaffe regarded as quite an upstart, and anything but a gentleman, owed no man anything.

The primero and Segundo, which rise in the province of Cordova, disappear in the same plains.

But if there was one man he hated more than another, it was his neighbour Mr. primero; and if one woman, it was Mrs. primero.

And now there had come into Suffolk a rumour that Mr. primero was to have a peerage.

So Decker: "Talke of none but lords and such ladies with whom you have plaid at primero."

Word Value for primero
Scrable

11

Words with friends

13

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