morra

American  

[mawr-uh] / ˈmɔr ə /

noun

1. an Italian game in which players suddenly show a hand with from 0 to 5 fingers held up, simultaneously guessing the total number of fingers held up by all players.

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Example Sentences

"Six years the morra; why, that's just as long as my father's been dead," said Mick.

From The Weans at Rowallan by Fitzpatrick, Kathleen

And he found plenty of them—thick as bees they wor, and each one as beautiful as the day and the morra.

From Humours of Irish Life by Various

"I'll bury my granny the morra, an' then—then I start."

From The Weans at Rowallan by Fitzpatrick, Kathleen

Eager groups were gathered under the various signs upon the walls and pillars, apparently playing the Italian game of morra, to judge by the quick gestures of their restless fingers.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 22, January, 1873 by Various

A little maid led out her snowy lamb to graze among the woods, and children played at "morra" beside the river, which ran at peace, lapping the silver sand.

From The Italians by Elliot, Frances