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Webster 1913 Edition


Poker

Pok′er

,
Noun.
[From
Poke
to push.]
1.
One who pokes.
2.
That which pokes or is used in poking, especially a metal bar or rod used in stirring a fire of coals.
3.
A poking-stick.
Decker.
4.
(Zool.)
The poachard.
[Prov. Eng.]
Poker picture
,
a picture formed in imitation of bisterwashed drawings, by singeing the surface of wood with a heated poker or other iron.
Fairholt.

Pok′er

,
Noun.
[Of uncertain etymol.]
A game at cards derived from brag, and first played about 1835 in the Southwestern United States.
Johnson’s Cyc.

Pok′er

,
Noun.
[Cf. Dan.
pokker
the deuce, devil, also W.
pwci
, a hobgoblin, bugbear, and E.
puck
.]
Any imagined frightful object, especially one supposed to haunt the darkness; a bugbear.
[Colloq. U. S.]

Webster 1828 Edition


Poker

PO'KER

,
Noun.
[from poke.] An iron bar used in stirring the fire when coal is used for fuel.

PO'KER

,
Noun.
[L. bos, bovis.] Any frightful object, especially in the dark; a bugbear; a word in common popular use in America.

Definition 2024


póker

póker

See also: poker and Poker

Hungarian

Noun

póker (plural pókerek)

  1. poker (game)

Declension

Inflection (stem in -e-, front unrounded harmony)
singular plural
nominative póker pókerek
accusative pókert pókereket
dative pókernek pókereknek
instrumental pókerrel pókerekkel
causal-final pókerért pókerekért
translative pókerré pókerekké
terminative pókerig pókerekig
essive-formal pókerként pókerekként
essive-modal
inessive pókerben pókerekben
superessive pókeren pókereken
adessive pókernél pókereknél
illative pókerbe pókerekbe
sublative pókerre pókerekre
allative pókerhez pókerekhez
elative pókerből pókerekből
delative pókerről pókerekről
ablative pókertől pókerektől
Possessive forms of póker
possessor single possession multiple possessions
1st person sing. pókerem pókereim
2nd person sing. pókered pókereid
3rd person sing. pókere pókerei
1st person plural pókerünk pókereink
2nd person plural pókeretek pókereitek
3rd person plural pókerük pókereik

Derived terms


Icelandic

Etymology

Borrowing from English poker.

Noun

póker m (genitive singular pókers, no plural)

  1. poker (card game)

Declension


Spanish

Etymology

Borrowing from English poker.

Noun

póker m (uncountable)

  1. poker (card game)

Alternative forms