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English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?po?k?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p??k?/
• Rhymes: -??k?(?)

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

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.

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

Verb

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

1. To play poker.

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.

Anagrams

• Koper, Perko, Repko, proke

Basque

Noun

poker

1. belch

Czech

Etymology

From English poker.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?pokr?]
• Hyphenation: po?ker

Noun

poker m inan

1. poker

Declension

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: po?ker
• Rhymes: -o?k?r

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

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English poker.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?.k??/

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).

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

Polish

Etymology

From English poker.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?.k?r/

Noun

poker m inan

1. poker
2. straight flush

   poker królewski – royal flush

Declension

Derived terms

• pokerowy

Portuguese

Noun

poker m (uncountable)

1. Alternative spelling of pôquer

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:pôquer.

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from English poker.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?ker/
• Hyphenation: po?ker

Noun

pòker m (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. poker (card game)

Declension

References

• “poker” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal

Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pò?k?r/

Noun

p??k?r m inan

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

See also

English

Noun

paker (plural pakers)

1. (obsolete) A vagrant, stroller

References

• 1949, John Dover Wilson (compiler), Life in Shakespeare's England. A Book of Elizabethan Prose, Cambridge at the University Press. 1st ed. 1911, 2nd ed. 1913, 8th reprint. In Glossary and Notes. Quoted in plural (pakers)

Anagrams

• Parke, Pekar, Perak, Repka

Indonesian

Etymology

From Madurese [Term?].

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?pak?r]
• Hyphenation: pa?kêr

Adjective

paker

1. (Madura) too bitter.

   Synonym: pahit

Further reading

• “paker” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.