poker

See also: Poker and póker

English

Pronunciation

(General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpoʊkɚ/
(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpəʊkə/
- Audio (Southern England): (file)
(Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈpəʉkə/
(New Zealand) IPA^(key): /ˈpɐʉkə/
(Scotland) IPA^(key): /ˈpokəɾ/
(Wales, without the toe–tow merger) IPA^(key): /ˈpoːkə/
Rhymes: -əʊkə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

Etymology tree

English poke

Proto-Indo-European *-yósder.

Proto-Italic *-āzios

Latin -āriusnom.

Latin -āriusbor.

Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz

Proto-West Germanic *-ārī

Old English -ere

Middle English -ere

English -er

English poker

From poke + -er.

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.]
Synonyms: firestick, stoker, (obsolete) fire pike
(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.
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, “Rapid”‎^[1], 1:18–1:21:
  Key sense with the super-soaker
  Longest poker, leave man stressed like yoga
- 2021 March 6, Mloose (BG), “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
(UK, slang, obsolete) A bedel (who carries a silver mace).
Synonym: silver poker
- 1841, George John Daire, The Rime of the New-made Baccalere:
  On seats with velvet lined, / Sat Heads of Houses in a row, / And Deans and College Dons below, / With a Poker or two behind.

Derived terms

Translations

metal rod for poking

Altai:
Southern Altai: кӧсӧк (kösök), кӧзӱӱш (közüüš)
Arabic: سِطَام m (siṭām), مِسْعَار m (misʕār)
Bashkir: тәртешкә (tərteşkə)
Belarusian: качарга́ f (kačarhá)
Bulgarian: ръже́н (bg) m (răžén)
Catalan: furga (ca) f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 撥火棍 / 拨火棍 (zh) (bōhuǒgùn), 火鉤子 / 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 (köseu)
Korean: 부지깽이 (bujikkaeng'i)
Latin: rutābulum n
Macedonian: ожег m (ožeg), жеголач m (žegolač)
Māori: rorerore, horehore, kapekape, pīnohi
Navajo: honishgish, konishgish
Norman: poqueur m
Occitan: tisonièr (oc) m, forgon (oc) m
Polish: pogrzebacz (pl) m, ożóg (pl) m (rare)
Portuguese: atiçador m, tiçoeiro m
Romanian: vătrai (ro) n
Russian: кочерга́ (ru) f (kočergá)
Serbo-Croatian:
Cyrillic: жарило n, жарач m

Latin: žarilo (sh) n, žarač (sh) m
Slovak: kutáč m, pohrabáč m
Slovene: grebljica (sl) f
Spanish: atizador (es) m
Swedish: spiselkrok c, spiskrok, eldgaffel (sv) c
Turkish: karıştırıcı (tr)
Ottoman Turkish: قراغی (karağı)
Ukrainian: кочерга́ f (kočerhá), коцюба́ f (kocjubá)
Volapük: lefilahuk (vo)
Walloon: graweye (wa) f, grawia (wa) m, forguinoe (wa) m
Welsh: pocer 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
Russian: кочегар (ru) f (kočegar)

Verb

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

(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.

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 (countable and uncountable, plural pokers)

(card games) 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.]
- 2014 September 11, Pam Grout, “Really? 10 unexpected cruise activities”, in CNN‎^[3]:
  As mesmerizing as it is to watch Kristen Kish whip up bacon and cinnamon waffles with boysenberry and strawberry jam, imagine playing poker with Hosea Rosenberg.
(card games) All the four cards of the same rank.
(soccer, rare) The scoring of four goals by a player in one match.
Synonym: haul
- 2021 September 20, Ratul Ghosh, “THE BEST MOMENTS FROM JIMMY GREAVES' LEGENDARY FOOTBALLING CAREER”, in FootTheBall:
  Greaves hit three hat-tricks, two pokers and five goals against West Brom on his way to a record-setting 41 league goals.
- 2022 April 17, Dylan Butler, “Recap: NYCFC 6, Real Salt Lake 0”, in MLS:
  Poker Face: Taty Castellanos strikes FOUR times for NYCFC vs. RSL
- 2023 January 24, Chris Wright, “Mbappe scored career-high five goals in one game. What about Messi, Ronaldo and world's other top strikers?”, in ESPN:
  Ibra has scored a "poker" on four separate occasions during his career: twice with Paris Saint-Germain and twice for Sweden. The most famed example must surely be his single-handed crushing of England in a friendly back in 2012, when the striker rounded off a 4-2 victory for the Swedes with a truly immense long-range overhead kick in the final minute.
- 2023 April 6, “THE 11TH HAT TRICK SCORER AT NOU CAMP”, in International Federation of Football History and Statistics:
  The only player who scored a poker at Nou Camp is Milinko Pantić. Curiously, despite his 4 goals, his team (Atlético Madrid) lost the game.
- 2023 April 30, “Europa League's fastest goals and quickest hat-tricks”, in UEFA:
  Daka also became only the fifth player to score four or more in a Europa League match, and the second fastest after Willian José, whose 'poker' came in the space of 26 minutes for Real Sociedad at Vardar in 2017.

Derived terms

Descendants

→ Armenian: պոկեր (poker)
→ Cantonese: 撲克 / 扑克 (pok³ hak¹)
→ Catalan: pòquer
→ Czech: poker
→ Danish: poker
→ Dutch: poker
→ Esperanto: pokero
→ 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)
→ Mandarin: 撲克 / 扑克 (pūkè)
→ Polish: poker
→ Portuguese: pôquer, póquer (Portugal)
→ Russian: по́кер (póker)
→ Serbo-Croatian: poker / покер
→ Slovene: poker
→ Spanish: póquer
→ Swedish: poker
→ Turkish: poker
→ Ukrainian: по́кер (póker)

Translations

card game

Arabic: بُوكَر m (bōkar), بُوكِر m (bōker)
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 / 扑克 (zh) (pūkè), 撲克牌 / 扑克牌 (zh) (pūkèpái)
Czech: poker (cs) m
Danish: poker c
Dutch: poker (nl) n
Esperanto: pokero
Finnish: pokeri (fi)
French: poker (fr) m
Galician: póquer m
Georgian: პოკერი (ṗoḳeri)
German: Poker (de) n
Greek: πόκερ (el) n (póker)
Hebrew: פּוֹקֵר (he) m (póker)
Hindi: पोकर m (pokar)
Hungarian: póker (hu)
Icelandic: póker (is) m
Italian: poker (it) m
Japanese: ポーカー (ja) (pōkā)
Khmer: ផែ (km) (phae)
Korean: 포커 (pokeo)
Macedonian: покер m (poker)
Malay: poker
Maltese: powker
Māori: poka, whakanuka kāri
Marathi: पोकर m (pokar)
Occitan: poquèr (oc) m
Ojibwe: zhooniyaa-wataageng
Persian: پوکر (fa) (poker)
Polish: poker (pl) m
Portuguese: pôquer (pt) m (Brazil), póquer (pt) m (Portugal)
Romanian: poker n
Russian: по́кер (ru) m (póker)
Spanish: póquer (es), póker m
Swedish: poker (sv)
Tagalog: poker
Thai: โป๊กเกอร์ (bpóok-gə̂ə), เผ (th) (pěe)
Turkish: poker (tr)
Ukrainian: по́кер m (póker)
Urdu: پوکر m (pokar)
Vietnamese: pôke, bài xì

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.

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.^[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.

References

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

Anagrams

Koper, Perko, Repko, proke

Basque

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /poker/ [po.ker]
Rhymes: -oker, -er
Hyphenation: po‧ker

Etymology 1

Noun

poker inan

(Northern) belch
Synonyms: korrokada, korroskada

Declension

Declension of *poker* (inan C-stem)
	indefinite	singular	plural	proximal plural
absolutive	poker	pokerra	pokerrak	pokerrok
ergative	pokerrek	pokerrak	pokerrek	pokerrok
dative	pokerri	pokerrari	pokerrei	pokerroi
genitive	pokerren	pokerraren	pokerren	pokerron
comitative	pokerrekin	pokerrarekin	pokerrekin	pokerrokin
causative	pokerrengatik	pokerrarengatik	pokerrengatik	pokerrongatik
benefactive	pokerrentzat	pokerrarentzat	pokerrentzat	pokerrontzat
instrumental	pokerrez	pokerraz	pokerrez	pokerrotaz
inessive	pokerretan	pokerrean	pokerretan	pokerrotan
locative	pokerretako	pokerreko	pokerretako	pokerrotako
allative	pokerretara	pokerrera	pokerretara	pokerrotara
terminative	pokerretaraino	pokerreraino	pokerretaraino	pokerrotaraino
directive	pokerretarantz	pokerrerantz	pokerretarantz	pokerrotarantz
destinative	pokerretarako	pokerrerako	pokerretarako	pokerrotarako
ablative	pokerretatik	pokerretik	pokerretatik	pokerrotatik
partitive	pokerrik	—	—	—
prolative	pokertzat	—	—	—

Derived terms

poker egin (“to belch”)

Etymology 2

Noun

poker inan

poker

Declension

Declension of *poker* (inan C-stem)
	indefinite	singular	plural	proximal plural
absolutive	poker	pokerra	pokerrak	pokerrok
ergative	pokerrek	pokerrak	pokerrek	pokerrok
dative	pokerri	pokerrari	pokerrei	pokerroi
genitive	pokerren	pokerraren	pokerren	pokerron
comitative	pokerrekin	pokerrarekin	pokerrekin	pokerrokin
causative	pokerrengatik	pokerrarengatik	pokerrengatik	pokerrongatik
benefactive	pokerrentzat	pokerrarentzat	pokerrentzat	pokerrontzat
instrumental	pokerrez	pokerraz	pokerrez	pokerrotaz
inessive	pokerretan	pokerrean	pokerretan	pokerrotan
locative	pokerretako	pokerreko	pokerretako	pokerrotako
allative	pokerretara	pokerrera	pokerretara	pokerrotara
terminative	pokerretaraino	pokerreraino	pokerretaraino	pokerrotaraino
directive	pokerretarantz	pokerrerantz	pokerretarantz	pokerrotarantz
destinative	pokerretarako	pokerrerako	pokerretarako	pokerrotarako
ablative	pokerretatik	pokerretik	pokerretatik	pokerrotatik
partitive	pokerrik	—	—	—
prolative	pokertzat	—	—	—

Derived terms

pokerrean (“playing poker”)

Czech

Etymology

Borrowed from English poker.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

poker m inan

poker

Declension

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

Danish

Danish Wikipedia has an article on:

poker

Wikipedia ^da

Etymology

Borrowed from English poker.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): [ˈpoˀɡʌ]

Noun

poker c (singular definite pokeren, not used in plural form)

(card games) poker

Declension

Declension of *poker*
common gender	singular
common gender	indefinite	definite
nominative	poker	pokeren
genitive	pokers	pokerens

Derived terms

References

“poker” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Dutch Wikipedia has an article on:

poker

Wikipedia ^nl

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈpoː.kər/
Audio: (file)
Hyphenation: po‧ker
Rhymes: -oːkər

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, no diminutive)

poker (card game)

Etymology 2

From poken +‎ -er.

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

inflection of pokeren:
1. first-person singular present indicative
2. (in case of inversion) second-person singular present indicative
3. imperative

Anagrams

koper, krope

French

French Wikipedia has an article on:

poker

Wikipedia ^fr

Etymology

Borrowed from English poker.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /pɔ.kɛʁ/
Audio (Switzerland (Valais)): (file)
Audio (France (Vosges)): (file)
Audio (France (Vosges)): (file)
Audio (France (Vosges)): (file)
Audio (France (Somain)): (file)

Noun

poker m (plural pokers)

(card games) poker

Indonesian

Indonesian Wikipedia has an article on:

poker

Wikipedia ^id

Etymology

Borrowed from English poker.

Pronunciation

(Standard Indonesian) IPA^(key): /ˈpokər/ [ˈpo.kər]
Rhymes: -okər
Syllabification: po‧ker

Noun

poker (plural poker-poker)

(card games) poker

Italian

Alternative forms

pocher (rare)

Etymology

Borrowed from English poker.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈpɔ.ker/^[1]
Rhymes: -ɔker
Hyphenation: pò‧ker

Noun

poker m (invariable)

(card games) poker
(card games, poker) four of a kind
(metonymic, uncountable) the act of playing poker
(metonymic) a game of poker

Derived terms

References

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

Polish

Etymology

Etymology tree

German Pochspielder.?

German pochender.?

French poqueder.?

English pokerbor.

Polish poker

Borrowed from English poker.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈpɔ.kɛr/
Audio: (file)
Rhymes: -ɔkɛr
Syllabification: po‧ker

Noun

poker m inan (related adjective pokerowy)

poker
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

Portuguese

Pronunciation

(Brazil) IPA^(key): /ˈpo.keʁ/ [ˈpo.keh]
- (São Paulo) IPA^(key): /ˈpo.keɾ/
- (Rio de Janeiro) IPA^(key): /ˈpo.keʁ/ [ˈpo.keχ]
- (Caipira) IPA^(key): /ˈpo.keɻ/

(Portugal) IPA^(key): /ˈpɔ.kɛɾ/

Noun

poker m (uncountable)

alternative spelling of pôquer
alternative spelling of póquer

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from English poker.

Pronunciation

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

Noun

pòker m inan (Cyrillic spelling по̀кер)

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 [Croatian language portal] (in Serbo-Croatian), 2006–2026

Slovene

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /pòːkər/

Noun

pọ́kər m inan

poker (card game)
(poker) four of a kind

Tagalog

Etymology

Borrowed from English poker. See also Spanish póquer.

Pronunciation

(Standard Tagalog) IPA^(key): /ˈpokeɾ/ [ˈpoː.x̠ɛɾ]
Rhymes: -okeɾ
Syllabification: po‧ker

Noun

poker (Baybayin spelling ᜉᜓᜃᜒᜇ᜔) (card games)

poker (card game)

Turkish

Turkish Wikipedia has an article on:

poker

Wikipedia ^tr

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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

Noun

poker (definite accusative pokeri, plural pokerler)

poker

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

Poker hands in Danish · poker (layout · text)

højeste kort	et par	to par	tre ens	straight

flush	fuldt hus	fire ens	straight flush	royal flush

Poker hands in Italian · punti del poker (layout · text)

carta più alta	coppia	doppia coppia	tris	scala

colore	full	poker	scala reale	scala reale massima

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

najvišja karta	par	dva para	tris	lestvica, kenta

barva	full house	poker	barvna lestvica	kraljeva lestvica

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