poker

See also: Poker and póker

English

Miniature tongs, shovel and poker

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpoʊkɚ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpəʊkə/

• Audio (UK)

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• Rhymes: -əʊkə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

poke +‎ -er

Noun

poker (plural pokers)

1. A metal rod, generally of wrought iron, for adjusting the burning logs or coals in a fire; a firestick. [from earlier 16th c.]
2. (historical) A tool like a soldering iron for making poker drawings.
3. One who pokes.
4. A kind of duck, the pochard.

Synonyms

• (fireplace utensil): firestick, stoker

Translations

metal rod for poking

• Arabic: سِطَام‎ m (siṭām), مِسْعَار‎ m (misʿār)
• Bashkir: тәртешкә (tärteškä)
• Belarusian: качарга́ f (kačarhá)
• Bulgarian: ръже́н (bg) m (rǎžén)
• Catalan: furga (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 撥火棍 (zh), 拨火棍 (zh) (bōhuǒgùn), 火鉤子 (zh), 火钩子 (zh) (huǒgōuzi)

• Czech: pohrabáč m, přikládač m
• Dutch: pook (nl) m
• Finnish: hiilihanko (fi)
• French: tisonnier (fr) m
• Galician: zoscadoiro m, atizador m
• German: Schüreisen (de) n, Schürhaken (de) m
• Hungarian: piszkavas (hu)
• Icelandic: skörungur m
• Italian: attizzatoio (it) m
• Japanese: 火かき棒 (ひかきぼう, hikakibō)
• Kazakh: көсеу (kösew)
• Korean: 부지깽이 (bujikkaeng-i)
• Latin: rutābulum n

• Macedonian: ожег m (ožeg), жеголач m (žegolač)
• Maori: rorerore, horehore, kapekape
• Navajo: honishgish, konishgish
• Norman: poqueur m
• Polish: pogrzebacz (pl) m, ożóg m (rare, wooden one)
• Portuguese: atiçador m, tiçoeiro m
• Romanian: vătrai (ro) n
• Russian: кочерга́ (ru) f (kočergá)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: жарило n, жарач m

  Roman: žarilo (sh) n, žarač (sh) m

• Slovak: kutáč m, pohrabáč m
• Slovene: grebljica (sl) f
• Spanish: atizador (es)
• Swedish: spiselkrok c, spiskrok, eldgaffel (sv) c
• Ukrainian: кочерга́ f (kočerhá), коцюба́ f (kocjubá)
• Volapük: lefilahuk (vo)
• Walloon: graweye (wa) f, grawia (wa) m, forguinoe (wa) m
• Welsh: pocer m
• Westrobothnian: branstaka m

one who pokes

• Dutch: poker (nl) m, pookster f
• Finnish: kohentaja (fi)
• Icelandic: potari m

• Macedonian: бодач m (bodač), буцкало n (buckalo)
• Portuguese: cutucador

Verb

poker (third-person singular simple present pokers, present participle pokering, simple past and past participle pokered)

1. 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

1. 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.]
2. (poker) All the four cards of the same rank.

Derived terms

• poker chip
• poker face
• poker-faced
• poker up
• strip poker

Related terms

• when the chips are down

See also

• three card brag

Translations

card game

• Arabic: بُوكَر‎ m (būkar), بُوكِر‎ m (būkir)
• Armenian: պոկեր (hy) (poker)
• Belarusian: по́кер m (pókjer)
• Bulgarian: по́кер m (póker)
• Catalan: pòquer (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 啤牌 (pe¹ paai^4-2)

  Mandarin: 撲克 (zh), 扑克 (zh) (pūkè), 撲克牌 (zh), 扑克牌 (zh) (pūkepài)

• Czech: poker (cs) m
• Dutch: poker (nl) n
• Finnish: pokeri (fi)
• French: poker (fr) m
• Galician: póquer m
• Georgian: პოკერი (ṗoḳeri)
• German: Poker (de) n
• Greek: πόκερ (el) n (póker)
• Hebrew: פוקר‎ (he) m (póker)
• Hindi: पोकर (pokar)
• Hungarian: póker (hu)
• Icelandic: póker m
• Italian: poker (it) m

• Japanese: ポーカー (ja) (pōkā)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 포커 (pokeo)
• Macedonian: покер m (poker)
• Maltese: powker
• Maori: poka, whakanuka kāri
• Occitan: pòquer m
• Ojibwe: zhooniyaa-wataageng
• Persian: پوکر‎ (fa) (poker)
• Polish: poker (pl) m
• Portuguese: pôquer (pt) m, póquer (pt) m
• Romanian: poker n
• Russian: по́кер (ru) m (póker)
• Spanish: póquer (es), póker m
• Swedish: poker (sv)
• Tagalog: poker
• Thai: โป๊กเกอร์
• Turkish: poker (tr)
• Ukrainian: по́кер m (póker)
• Urdu: پوکر‎ (pokar)
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

Verb

poker (third-person singular simple present pokers, present participle pokering, simple past and past participle pokered)

1. 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)

1. (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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

• Koper, Perko, Repko, proke

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Basque

Noun

poker

1. belch

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Czech

Etymology

From English poker.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈpokr̩]
• Hyphenation: po‧ker

Noun

poker m inan

1. poker

Declension

Declension

	singular	plural
nominative	poker	pokery
genitive	pokeru	pokerů
dative	pokeru	pokerům
accusative	poker	pokery
vocative	pokere	pokery
locative	pokeru	pokerech
instrumental	pokerem	pokery

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: po‧ker
• Rhymes: -oːkər

Etymology 1

American English, perhaps from first element of German Pochspiel, from German pochen, perhaps from French poque

Noun

poker n (uncountable)

1. poker (card game)

Etymology 2

From poken +‎ -er.

Noun

poker m (plural pokers, diminutive pokertje n)

1. somebody who pokes a fire

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

poker

1. first-person singular present indicative of pokeren
2. imperative of pokeren

Anagrams

• koper, krope

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from English poker.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pɔ.kɛʁ/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

poker m (plural pokers)

1. (card games) poker

Further reading

• “poker” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English poker.

Noun

poker m (invariable)

1. (card games, poker) poker
2. (card games, poker) four of a kind

Derived terms

• pokerino
• pokerista

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Polish

Etymology

From English poker.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔ.kɛr/

Noun

poker m inan

1. poker
2. straight flush

   poker królewski – royal flush

Declension

declension of poker

	singular
nominative	poker
genitive	pokera
dative	pokerowi
accusative	poker
instrumental	pokerem
locative	pokerze
vocative	pokerze

Derived terms

• pokerowy

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Portuguese

Noun

poker m (uncountable)

1. Alternative spelling of pôquer

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:pôquer.

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Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from English poker.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pǒker/
• Hyphenation: po‧ker

Noun

pòker m (Cyrillic spelling по̀кер)

1. poker (card game)

Declension

Declension of poker

	singular
nominative	poker
genitive	pokera
dative	pokeru
accusative	poker
vocative	pokeru
locative	pokeru
instrumental	pokerom

References

• “poker” in Hrvatski jezični portal

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Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pòːkər/

Noun

pọ́kər m inan

1. poker (card game)
2. (poker) four of a kind

See also

Poker hands in Slovene · poker karte (layout · text)
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