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What is a mahjongero?

May 21, 2016July 29, 2022

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mahjongero

\mä-joŋ-‘er-(ˌ)ō\

noun

: a person who plays mahjong, a game of Chinese origin usually played by four people with 144 tiles that are drawn and discarded until one player secures a winning hand

Origin

Used in Philippine languages, from Chinese má jiàng (麻將), the name of the Chinese game, and the Spanish agentive suffix -ero ‘one who works with’

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