poker

  • 31poker — {{11}}poker (1) metal rod, 1530s, agent noun from POKE (Cf. poke) (v.). {{12}}poker (2) card game, 1834, American English, perhaps from the first element of Ger. Pochspiel, name of a card game similar to poker, from pochen to brag as a bluff, lit …

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  • 32poker — [[t]po͟ʊkə(r)[/t]] pokers 1) N UNCOUNT Poker is a card game that people usually play in order to win money. Lon and I play in the same weekly poker game. 2) N COUNT A poker is a metal bar which you use to move coal or wood in a fire in order to… …

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  • 33poker — pócher / póker [e pron. ă] s. n., pl. póchere / pókere Trimis de gall, 27.02.2008. Sursa: DOOM 2  póker (pókere), s.n. – Joc de cărţi. – var. ortogr. pocher. fr. poker, din engl. – Der. pocherist, s.m …

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  • 34Poker — Recorded in a variety of spellings including Pook, Pooke, Pochar, Poacher, Poutcher, Poker, and Pooker, his interesting and unusual name is English. It has apparently nothing to do with poaching or the taking of game, it is, or rather was, a… …

    Surnames reference

  • 35poker — noun Poker is used before these nouns: ↑face, ↑tournament Poker is used after these nouns: ↑strip …

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  • 36poker — n. to play poker * * * [ pəʊkə] to play poker …

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  • 37poker — is., Fr. poker Bir tür kâğıt oyunu Atasözü, Deyim ve Birleşik Fiiller poker çevirmek …

    Çağatay Osmanlı Sözlük

  • 38poker — pok|er [ˈpəukə US ˈpoukər] n [Sense: 1; Date: 1800 1900; Origin: Probably from French poque, card game like poker.] [Sense: 2; Date: 1500 1600; Origin: poke] 1.) [U] a card game that people usually play for money ▪ Can you play poker ? 2.) …

    Dictionary of contemporary English

  • 39poker — English has two words poker. The earlier, poker for a fire [16], is simply the agent noun formed from poke [14], a verb borrowed from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German poken ‘thrust, hit’. The card game name [19] originated in the USA, but it is… …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 40poker — UK [ˈpəʊkə(r)] / US [ˈpoʊkər] noun Word forms poker : singular poker plural pokers 1) [uncountable] a card game in which players try to win money 2) [countable] a metal stick used for moving the coal or wood of a fire around …

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