poker - Wiktionary

English[edit]

Miniature tongs, shovel and poker

Pronunciation[edit]

• (General American) IPA(key): /ˈpoʊkɚ/


• (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈpəʊkə/


• Rhymes: -əʊkə(ɹ)

Etymology 1[edit]

poke +‎ -er.

Noun[edit]

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. One who pokes.


3. A kind of duck, the pochard.

Synonyms[edit]

• (fireplace utensil): firestick, stoker

Translations[edit]

External links[edit]

• Fireplace poker on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

poker (plural pokers)

1. Any of various card games in which, following each of one or more rounds of dealing or revealing the 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[edit]

• fruit poker


• poker chip


• poker face


• poker-faced


• strip poker

[edit]

• when the chips are down

See also[edit]

• three card brag

Translations[edit]

External links[edit]

• Poker (game) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 3[edit]

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

Noun[edit]

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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[edit]

• Koper, Perko, Repko, proke

Basque[edit]

Noun[edit]

poker

1. belch

Czech[edit]

Noun[edit]

poker m

1. poker

Dutch[edit]

Pronunciation[edit]

• 
  
• Hyphenation: po‧ker

Etymology 1[edit]




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





Noun[edit]




poker n (uncountable)




1. poker (card game)

Etymology 2[edit]




From poken +‎ -er.





Noun[edit]




poker m (plural pokers, diminutive pokertje n)




1. somebody who pokes a fire

Etymology 3[edit]




See the etymology of the main entry.





Verb[edit]




poker




1. first-person singular present indicative of pokeren


2. imperative of pokeren

Anagrams[edit]



• koper, krope

French[edit]





Etymology[edit]




Borrowed from English poker.





Pronunciation[edit]



• IPA(key): /pɔ.kɛʁ/

Noun[edit]




poker m (plural pokers)




1. (card games) poker

External links[edit]



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

Italian[edit]




Etymology[edit]




Borrowed from English poker.





Noun[edit]




poker m (invariable)




1. poker (card game)

Derived terms[edit]



• pokerino


• pokerista

Polish[edit]




Pronunciation[edit]



• IPA(key): /ˈpɔ.kɛr/

Noun[edit]




poker m inan




1. (card games) poker


2. straight flush
   poker królewski – royal flush

Declension[edit]





Derived terms[edit]



• pokerowy

Portuguese[edit]




Noun[edit]




poker m (uncountable)




1. Alternative spelling of pôquer

Quotations[edit]




For quotations of use of this term, see Citations:pôquer.





Serbo-Croatian[edit]




Etymology[edit]




Borrowed from English poker.





Pronunciation[edit]



• IPA(key): /pǒker/


• Hyphenation: po‧ker

Noun[edit]




pòker m (Cyrillic spelling по̀кер)




1. poker (card game)

Declension[edit]















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

References[edit]



• “poker”, in Hrvatski jezični portal, 2006–2018

Slovene[edit]




Noun[edit]




póker m inan (genitive pókra, nominative plural pókri)




1. poker (card game)


2. (poker) four of a kind

See also[edit]



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