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poker

See also: Poker and póker

English

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Miniature tongs, shovel and poker

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Etymology 1

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poke +‎ -er

Noun

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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.]
    Synonyms: firestick, stoker, (obsolete) fire pike
  2. (historical) A tool like a soldering iron for making poker drawings.
  3. 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.
  4. A kind of duck, the pochard.
  5. (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
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Verb

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

  1. (transitive) 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.

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Etymology 2

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American English, perhaps from first element of German Pochspiel, from German pochen, perhaps from French poque. First appeared in the 19th century.

Noun

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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.
  4. (soccer, rare) [a player's] scoring four goals in one match
    Synonym: haul
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Poker hands in English · poker hands (layout · text)
         
high card pair two pair three of a kind straight
         
flush full house four of a kind straight flush royal flush

Verb

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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.

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Etymology 3

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Compare Danish pokker (“the deuce, devil”), and English puck.

Noun

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poker (plural pokers)

  1. (US, colloquial) Any imagined frightful object, especially one supposed to haunt the darkness; a bugbear.[1]
    • 5 May 1784, Horace Walpole, letter to Hon. H. S. Conway:
      The very leaves on the horse-chesnuts […] cling to the bough as if old poker was coming to take them away.

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  1. ^ “poker”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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Basque

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poker

  1. belch

Czech

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English poker.

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

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poker m inan

  1. poker

Declension

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Declension of poker (hard masculine inanimate)
singular plural
nominative poker pokery
genitive pokeru pokerů
dative pokeru pokerům
accusative poker pokery
vocative pokere pokery
locative pokeru pokerech
instrumental pokerem pokery

Dutch

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Dutch Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology 1

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Borrowed from English poker, perhaps from the first element of German Pochspiel, from German pochen, perhaps from French poque.

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poker n (uncountable)

  1. poker (card game)

Etymology 2

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From poken +‎ -er.

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poker m (plural pokers, diminutive pokertje n)

  1. somebody who pokes a fire

Etymology 3

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See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

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poker

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

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French

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Borrowed from English poker.

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poker m (plural pokers)

  1. (card games) poker

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Italian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English poker.

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poker m (invariable)

  1. (card games) poker
  2. (card games, poker) four of a kind
  3. (metonymically, uncountable) the act of playing poker
  4. (metonymically) a game of poker

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References

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  1. ^ poker in Luciano Canepari, Dizionario di Pronuncia Italiana (DiPI)

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  • poker in Treccani.it – Vocabolario Treccani on line, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana

Polish

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English poker.

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poker m inan

  1. poker
  2. straight flush
    poker królewski ― royal flush

Declension

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

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Further reading

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  • poker in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • poker in Polish dictionaries at PWN

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poker m (uncountable)

  1. Alternative spelling of pôquer
  2. Alternative spelling of póquer

Serbo-Croatian

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English poker.

Pronunciation

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

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pòker m (Cyrillic spelling по̀кер)

  1. poker (card game)

Declension

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

References

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  • “poker” in Hrvatski jezični portal

Slovene

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pọ́kər m inan

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

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Poker hands in Slovene · poker karte (layout · text)
         
najvišja karta par dva para tris lestvica, kenta
         
barva full house poker barvna lestvica kraljeva lestvica

Turkish

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Turkish Wikipedia has an article on:
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Etymology

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From Ottoman Turkish پوكر (poker), from English poker.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ˈpo.cæɾ/, /ˈpo.cɛɾ/
  • Hyphenation: po‧ker

Noun

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poker (definite accusative pokeri, plural pokerler)

  1. poker

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