poker
English
Pronunciation
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Etymology 1
Noun
poker (plural pokers)
- A metal rod, generally of wrought iron, for adjusting the burning logs or coals in a fire; a firestick. [from earlier 16th c.]
- (historical) A tool like a soldering iron for making poker drawings.
- One who pokes.
- 2012, Johnny Meah, Risk: No Eulogy for Tin Soldiers (page 40)
- The guy next to him poked him in the ribs and said, “Check out the bazongas on this one!” Lee pivoted toward the rib poker and found himself looking straight into the face of Romeo Bouchard.
- 2012, Johnny Meah, Risk: No Eulogy for Tin Soldiers (page 40)
- A kind of duck, the pochard.
- (MLE, slang) A knife.
- Synonyms: jook, jooker, ching, ying, bassy, rambo, pokey, chete, shank, nank, splash, splasher, cheffer, wetter
- 2020 August 7, Kaygrab x D1 (lyrics and music), “Rapid”[1], 1:18–1:21:
- Key sense with the super-soaker
Longest poker, leave man stressed like yoga
- 2021 March 6, Mloose (BG) (lyrics and music), “Real As Hell”[2], 0:58–1:02:
- There is that guy that does with the pokings
I step with my poker
Play, cuz right, you might get folded
Derived terms
Translations
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Verb
poker (third-person singular simple present pokers, present participle pokering, simple past and past participle pokered)
- To poke with a utensil such as a poker or needle.
- 1796 July, “The Late Lord Chesterfield”, in The Aberdeen Magazine, volume 1, number 2, page 70:
- The King continued pokering the fire with his back to the door, and took no notice of Lord Chesterfield.
- 1939, Norah Gourlie, A Winter with Finnish Lapps, page 68:
- The lids have very pleasant designs pokered on with a hot needle.
- 1988, Robin Jenkins, Guests of War, page 246:
- When she was gone Bell was afflicted by a mood that had her moving round the room, holding on to the yellow curtain, standing over her girls, stroking the sails of the model yacht, opening the drawer and looking at the broken brooch, pokering the fire, and shifting the kettle's position on the hearth.
Further reading
- Fireplace poker on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Etymology 2
American English, perhaps from first element of German Pochspiel, from German pochen, perhaps from French poque. First appeared in the 19th century.
Noun
poker
- Any of various card games in which, following each of one or more rounds of dealing or revealing cards, the players in sequence make tactical bets or drop out, the bets forming a pool to be taken either by the sole remaining player or, after all rounds and bets have been completed, by those remaining players who hold a superior hand according to a standard ranking of hand values for the game. [from earlier 19th c.]
- (poker) All the four cards of the same rank.
Derived terms
Related terms
See also
Poker hands in English · poker hands (layout · text) | |||||
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high card | pair | two pair | three of a kind | straight | |
flush | full house | four of a kind | straight flush | royal flush |
Descendants
All are borrowed.
- Armenian: պոկեր (poker)
- Catalan: pòquer
- Chinese: 撲克/扑克 (pūkè; pok3 hak1)
- Czech: poker
- Dutch: poker
- Finnish: pokeri
- French: poker
- Georgian: პოკერი (ṗoḳeri)
- German: Poker
- → Estonian: pokker
- Greek: πόκερ (póker)
- Hungarian: póker
- Icelandic: póker
- Italian: poker
- Japanese: ポーカー (pokā)
- Korean: 포커 (pokeo)
- Luxembourgish: Poker
- Macedonian: покер (poker)
- Polish: poker
- Portuguese: pôquer, póquer (Portugal)
- Russian: покер (poker)
- Serbo-Croatian: poker / покер
- Slovene: poker
- Spanish: póquer
- Swedish: poker
- Turkish: poker
Translations
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Verb
poker (third-person singular simple present pokers, present participle pokering, simple past and past participle pokered)
- To play poker.
- 1929, West Virginia Wild Life, page 38:
- Then we went to Mead's and pokered until morning.
- 1969, Emma Wilson Emery, Aunt Puss & Others: Old Days in the Piney Woods, page 94:
- Papa liked nothing better than a game of poker . His pokering habits caused Mama grave anxiety.
- 1992, Vance H. Trimble, The Astonishing Mr. Scripps, page 56:
- "He ran with and pokered with us boys,” Bob Paine would recall fifty years later, “ the darndest, pepperyest, finest companion a fellow could ask.”
- 2017, Elle Kennedy, Sarina Bowen, Stay:
- “Yeah,” Lemming mutters. “We're pokering, so shut the fuck up.” “I raise five,” Blake announces.
Further reading
- Poker (game) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Etymology 3
Compare Danish pokker (“the deuce, devil”), and English puck.
Noun
poker (plural pokers)
- (US, colloquial) Any imagined frightful object, especially one supposed to haunt the darkness; a bugbear.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “poker”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams
Basque
Noun
poker
Czech
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
poker m inan
Declension
Dutch
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
Borrowed from English poker, perhaps from the first element of German Pochspiel, from German pochen, perhaps from French poque.
Noun
poker n (uncountable)
- poker (card game)
Etymology 2
Noun
poker m (plural pokers, diminutive pokertje n)
- somebody who pokes a fire
Etymology 3
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
Verb
poker
- (deprecated template usage) first-person singular present indicative of pokeren
- (deprecated template usage) imperative of pokeren
Anagrams
French
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
poker m (plural pokers)
Further reading
- “poker”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Italian
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
poker m (invariable)
Derived terms
References
- ^ poker in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)
Polish
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
poker m inan
- poker
- straight flush
- poker królewski ― royal flush
Declension
Derived terms
Further reading
- poker in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
- poker in Polish dictionaries at PWN
Portuguese
Noun
poker m (uncountable)
- Alternative spelling of pôquer
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:pôquer.
Serbo-Croatian
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
pòker m (Cyrillic spelling по̀кер)
- poker (card game)
Declension
References
- “poker” in Hrvatski jezični portal
Slovene
Pronunciation
Noun
pọ́kər m inan
- poker (card game)
- (poker) four of a kind
See also
Poker hands in Slovene · poker karte (layout · text) | |||||
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najvišja karta | par | dva para | tris | lestvica, kenta | |
barva | full house | poker | barvna lestvica | kraljeva lestvica |
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