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单词 poker
释义

† pokern.1

Forms: late Middle English pokere, late Middle English pokyere, 1600s poker.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: poke n.1, -er suffix1.
Etymology: < poke n.1 + -er suffix1.In form pokyere apparently after Anglo-Norman pokyere (early 14th cent. in the same collection of documents); compare -ier suffix. Apparently attested earlier in surnames, e.g. Ithel Poker (1315), Thomas le Pokere (1359), unless these show an (otherwise unattested) Anglo-Norman parallel. N.E.D. (1907) gives the pronunciation as (pōu·kəɹ) /ˈpəʊkə(r)/.
Obsolete. rare.
A person who stores or conveys something in a bag or sack.
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c1436 Domesday Ipswich (BL Add. 25011) in T. Twiss Black Bk. Admiralty (1873) II. 105 (margin) Of pokyeres that medelyn rotyn corn.
c1436 Domesday Ipswich (BL Add. 25011) in T. Twiss Black Bk. Admiralty (1873) II. 105 It is ordeyned and defended that no curlewacher, pokere [Fr. pokyere], ne non other man ne woman medele rotyn corn with good corn for to sellyn.
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Poker, one that conveys Coals (at Newcastle) in Sacks, on Horseback.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

pokern.2

Brit. /ˈpəʊkə/, U.S. /ˈpoʊkər/
Forms: see poke v.1 and -er suffix1.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: poke v.1, -er suffix1.
Etymology: < poke v.1 + -er suffix1.The origin of the phrase by the holy poker at sense 5 is uncertain. It has been linked, probably by popular etymology, to St Pulchre , short for St Sepulchre , the name of the archbishop's palace in Dublin. The following may show an earlier example of sense 3 (with reference to spear fishing; compare poke v.1 1), although the sense is unclear, and it may instead refer to fishing with a poke-net (see poke n.1 2b; compare also poking n.2):1501 in M. Livingstone Reg. Secreti Sigilli Regum Scotorum (1908) I. 100/1 To sustene ony skaith in the wynnyng of the saidis fischingis [of the Spey] be evil disposit persons, principaly be pokaris.1569–70 6th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1877) 650/1 Writ to my Lord Huntle..to command all his tenentes..that na pokerrs nor speir men cum in your wateris.
1.
a. A stiff straight metal rod, one end of which is fitted with or made into a handle, for poking or stirring a fire.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > heating or making hot > that which or one who heats > [noun] > a device for heating or warming > devices for heating buildings, rooms, etc. > hearth or fireplace > poker
purr1357
fire-purra1451
fire pike1483
poker1534
fire-pote1638
pote1638
proker1742
fire point1789
teaser1839
kennedy1864
curate1878
tickler1881
fire stick1896
1534 in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxf. (1880) 126 He..came downe with a poker in his hande.
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Poker,..a pointed Porr to raise the fire.
1715 J. Addison Spectator No. 608. ¶13 By her good Will she never would suffer the Poker out of her Hand.
1779 York Co., Va., Rec.: Wills XXII. 28 Apr. 1 pr. tongs, shovel, poker and fender 6/0/0.
1800 E. Hervey Mourtray Family I. 70 The men say she is as stiff as a poker; and the women are afraid of her, she is so proud and prudish.
1829 E. Bulwer-Lytton Disowned I. xviii. 287 The antient domestic..came, poker in hand, to his assistance.
1844 Ld. Brougham Albert Lunel III. vi. 176 Of a stiffness so perfect that part of his toilette seemed to be swallowing a poker.
1909 Practitioner Dec. 828 Poisoning conducted on these lines..resembles the action of the wife-basher, who attacks his victim with a poker.
1986 U. Holden Tin Toys (1987) iii. 26 She put more coal on, rattling the poker and tongs.
†b. figurative. A person with a rigid or stiff bearing or manner. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > discourtesy > [noun] > lack of affability > person
stick1801
poker1812
mauvais coucheur1857
partan1896
chip1929
peckerhead1945
1812 M. R. Mitford in A. G. L'Estrange Life M. R. Mitford (1870) I. 184 I dare say our new cousin is just such a poker as Lord Selkirk, with an iron head and an iron heart.
1838 Countess Granville Let. 4 July (1894) II. 263 He..would be very handsome if he would not stoop..Liz is a poker in comparison.
†2. = poking-stick n. at poking n.1 Compounds 2. Obsolete.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > washing > washing clothes and textile articles > [noun] > pressing or ironing > ironing or pressing implements
pressing iron1343
cold press1552
setting-stick?1578
putter1583
putting stick1583
poking-stick1592
pooter1596
poting stick1600
poker1604
goose1606
poking-iron?1606
iron1613
smoothing-iron1627
steel1638
box iron1640
smoothing-boxa1684
press iron1695
ironing board1721
sad iron1759
ironing blanket1774
ironing table1778
flat-iron1810
sleeve-board1826
ironer1833
Italian iron1833
press-board1849
ironing machine1851
goffering-iron1861
skirt-board1861
goffer1865
trouser press1880
ironing board cover1886
trouser presser1888
electric iron1890
press cloth1918
press-pad1924
tie press1926
steam-iron1951
pressing board1969
1604 T. Dekker & T. Middleton Honest Whore ii. i. 13 Wheres my ruffe and poker you block-head?
1606 T. Heywood 2nd Pt. If you know not Me i, in Wks. (1874) I. 258 Now, your Puritans poker is not so huge, but somewhat longer; a long slender poking-sticke is the all in all with your Suffolke Puritane.
1799 J. Strutt Compl. View Dress & Habits People of Eng. II. v. viii. 369 The poker was an instrument to put the plaits of the ruff in proper form.
3.
a. A person who pokes; esp. one who pokes or pries into things. Now rare.
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the mind > attention and judgement > [noun] > impertinent curiosity, prying > action of prying > person engaged in
pryer1552
peeper1607
poker1608
Paul Pry1826
snooper1889
nosy parker1896
stickybeak1917
nosy1931
curtain-twitcher1940
prodnose1965
1608 R. Armin Nest of Ninnies sig. B4v Now our Philosophicall Poker pokte on, and poynted to a strange shew.
1741 S. Richardson Pamela III. xxxix. 418 Such thoughtful Futurity-Pokers as me!
1942 L. V. Berrey & M. Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang § 695/1 Boxer; pugilist,..poker.
b. Cricket. A batter who pokes at the ball. See poke v.1 4b. Now rare.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > cricketer > [noun] > batsman > types of batsman
sticker1832
short runner1833
punisher1846
slogger1850
blocker1851
cutter1851
swiper1853
top scorer1860
stick1863
left-hander1864
smiter1878
centurion1886
driver1888
pad-player1888
poker1888
spectacle-maker1893
back-player1897
hooker1900
under-runner1903
puller1911
square cutter1920
straight driver1925
stroke-maker1927
goose-gamer1928
stroke-player1935
flasher1936
sweeper1961
tonker1977
1888 A. G. Steel in A. G. Steel & R. H. Lyttelton Cricket (Badminton Libr. of Sports & Pastimes) iii. 143 But to the poker, the man who refuses to do anything but stick his bat in front of the wicket..the high-dropping full-pitch is an excellent ball.
1907 ‘I. Hay’ Pip iv. 96 The slogger, observing his escape, came to the conclusion that he might as well be outed for a slogger as a poker, and lashed out widely at ball number five.
4. Any of various implements used for poking or prodding; spec. (slang) †a sword (obsolete). Also with modifying word.
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1684 E. Ravenscroft Dame Dobson ii. x. 24 I met three or four of my Rivals, the young Officers..and they..told me I was a Coxcomb, for putting my self into such a Garb; I presently whip'd out Poaker, plac'd my Thumb as you gave me directions.
1697 T. D'Urfey Intrigues at Versailles v. i. 51 He that offers to touch my dear Empress, shall have both these Pokers in his guts the next moment.
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew Poker,..a Sword.
1704 W. M. Female Wits ii. 25 Mr. Prais...Out comes Poker, whether George was out so soon I can't say. Mr. Pow. How Sir! my Sword in the Scabbard, and your's drawn!
1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (at cited word) Poker, a sword.
1842 J. B. Jukes Excurs. Newfoundland I. 261 The pokers were large poles of light wood... Pounding with these..the men would split the pans near the bows of the vessel.
1846 ‘Lord Chief Baron’ Swell's Night Guide (new ed.) 128/1 Poker, a sword.
1874 Nature 6 Aug. 265/1 ‘Pokers’, long poles with iron spikes, are used as levers to move the ice, and occasionally as tracking poles.
c1900 in J. P. Howley Gloss. Regional Lang. Stud.—Newfoundland (1978) VIII. 25 Pokers, sticks used on board a sealer to fend off loose pieces of ice.
1941 J. Smiley Hash House Lingo 43 Poker, toothpick.
1994 N. Baker Size of Thoughts (1996) 54 This Christmas, Bassett will be selling the Holiday Family Manicure kit, with a fingernail clipper and toenail clippers, two wooden cuticle pokers..and a pair of tweezers.
1995 Denver Post 27 Aug. f7/2 A cow poker rests in the gun rack of Sonny's 1986 GMC truck.
5. humorous (chiefly Irish English). by the holy poker: an asseveration. Now rare.
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the mind > language > malediction > oaths > [interjection] > religious oaths (referring to God) > other religious oaths
Petera1375
by this (good) lightc1380
passionc1390
by (all) the powers!c1425
hattersa1500
(by) Gog's arms, blood, body?1520
by my halidom1533
by (the) salmon?1536
as I am a sinner1682
by the holy poker1770
by the piper!1790
so help me salmon1834
Jehoshaphat1857
1770 Younger Brother I. 192 By the holy poker, (cry'd Sir Phelim) throw away another thousand or two, my dear.
1804 M. Edgeworth Limerick Gloves vi, in Pop. Tales I. 284 ‘By the holy poker’, said he to himself, ‘the old fellow now is out there’.
1828 Lancet 23 Feb. 773/2 He swears by the ‘holy poker’ and ‘St. Patrick’, that he will never again go to St. Bartholomew's.
1897 W. D. Howells Albany Depôt v. 74 Well, by the holy poker! This knocks me out! The next time I'll marry a man, and have somebody around that can appreciate a joke.
1910 H. de V. Stacpoole Blue Lagoon xviii. 140 Oh, be the Holy Poker, there's red rats comin' out of the sand!
1916 W. D. Howells Daughter of Storage xv. 243 Where are you? What! You never mean to say You are down there yet? Well, by the Holy Poker!
c1943 A. Potts in B. Edgar Warrior of Kokoda xiii. 236 This game of swapping GOC and staffs..is all right as a pastime, but by the Holy Poker, it doesn't help the control of a paper war.
†6. = poke n.5 6. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > general equipment > [noun] > restraining frame
yoke-stick1483
yoke1512
poker1805
poke1809
yoke-skey1817
cradle1831
1805 T. B. Hazard Diary (1930) 260/2 Put Poker on one of my oxen.
7. coarse slang.
a. The penis.Frequently in to burn one's poker: to catch a venereal disease; to stroke one's poker: to masturbate.
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the world > life > the body > sex organs > male sex organs > [noun] > penis
weapona1000
tarsec1000
pintleOE
cock?c1335
pillicock?c1335
yard1379
arrowa1382
looma1400
vergea1400
instrumentc1405
fidcocka1475
privya1500
virile member (or yard)?1541
prickc1555
tool1563
pillock1568
penis1578
codpiece1584
needle1592
bauble1593
dildo1597
nag1598
virility1598
ferret1599
rubigo?a1600
Jack1604
mentula1605
virge1608
prependent1610
flute1611
other thing1628
engine1634
manhood1640
cod1650
quillity1653
rammer1653
runnion1655
pego1663
sex1664
propagator1670
membrum virile1672
nervea1680
whore-pipe1684
Roger1689
pudding1693
handle?1731
machine1749
shaft1772
jock1790
poker1811
dickyc1815
Johnny?1833
organ1833
intromittent apparatus1836
root1846
Johnson1863
Peter1870
John Henry1874
dickc1890
dingusc1890
John Thomasc1890
old fellowc1890
Aaron's rod1891
dingle-dangle1893
middle leg1896
mole1896
pisser1896
micky1898
baby-maker1902
old man1902
pecker1902
pizzle1902
willy1905
ding-dong1906
mickey1909
pencil1916
dingbatc1920
plonkerc1920
Johna1922
whangera1922
knob1922
tube1922
ding1926
pee-pee1927
prong1927
pud1927
hose1928
whang1928
dong1930
putz1934
porkc1935
wiener1935
weenie1939
length1949
tadger1949
winkle1951
dinger1953
winky1954
dork1961
virilia1962
rig1964
wee-wee1964
Percy1965
meat tool1966
chopper1967
schlong1967
swipe1967
chode1968
trouser snake1968
ding-a-ling1969
dipstick1970
tonk1970
noonies1972
salami1977
monkey1978
langer1983
wanker1987
1811 Lexicon Balatronicum at Poker To burn your poker, to catch the venereal disease.
1886 H. Baumann Londinismen 141/2 He's burnt his poker, er hat die Syphilis.
1902 J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley Slang V. 243/2 Poker, the penis.
1983 R. Aman & G. Sardo Canad. Sexual Terms in Maledicta 1982 6 23 Penis,..poker.
1985 Maledicta 8 106 To masturbate,..stroke the dog, stroke your poker.
2002 ‘Mistress Chloe’ Dominatrix viii. 115 If anything could get my mind off how much I wanted to stroke..Stoker's poker, it would be the good Madame's luscious TV waitresses.
†b. A lover. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > [noun] > one who has intercourse
prancer?1560
fucker1598
poker1880
shag1971
shagger1971
1880 Pearl July 10 I've been told by jokers, That the ladies they do all agree that he's the prince of pokers.
†8. Shipbuilding. An iron implement used for driving hoops on masts. Obsolete.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > [noun] > shipbuilding > tools and equipment
ram-line1664
set1794
poker1823
horning-tackle1850
planking clamp1862
stower1863
planking-screw1864
ram1867
bending slab1890
warrok-
1823 G. Crabb Universal Technol. Dict. (at cited word) Poker..or driver, an iron instrument, of various lengths and sizes, used for driving hoops on masts. It has a flat foot at one end, and a round knob at the other.
1846 G. Dodd Brit. Manuf. 6th Ser. 174 Mast-making. A long iron bar called a ‘poker’... The men,..strike the hoop with the..pokers.
a1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. II. 1759/1 Poker, a metal used in hooping masts.
9. An implement used to burn a design on wood in pokerwork. Also: = pokerwork n.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > pokerwork > [noun]
pokerwork1813
poker1827
xylopyrography1850
pyrogravure1888
pyrography1891
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > pokerwork > [noun] > tools
poker1827
pyrograph1883
scorch pencil1903
1827 Seaham Parish Reg. A drawing in poker, by him, of the Salvator Mundi, after Carlo Dolci.
1854 F. W. Fairholt Dict. Terms Art Poker-pictures, imitations of pictures or rather of bister-washed drawings executed by singeing the surface of white wood with a heated poker, such as used in Italian irons.
c1900 W. D. Thompson Poker Work 10 The pokers were anything, from a knitting needle to an iron rod ¾ in. thick, and were bound with yarn or other material to protect the hands from being burnt, and to enable the worker to obtain a firmer grip of the implement.
1981 Handtools Arts & Crafts (Diagram Group) x. 179 Pyrographers today can use home-made patterned tools, or special electric pokers.
10. University slang.
a. A university bedel at Oxford and Cambridge, who carries a stave or mace before the Vice-Chancellor. Cf. sense 10b. Now rare.
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society > authority > office > holder of office > ceremonial officials > [noun] > usher > mace-bearer > in universities
beadlea1400
poker1841
poker-bearer1844
1841 G. J. Daire Rime of New-Made Baccalere iv. 18 Heads of Houses in a row, And Deans, and College Dons below, With a Poker or two behind.
1867 London Society Oct. 347 We attended duly at St. Mary's to see the vice-chancellor, doctors, proctors, ‘pokers’, &c. in their robes of state.
1897 B. Jowett Life & Lett. II. viii. 226 There was a great procession, the Chancellor in black and gold, Doctors in scarlet gowns, the Vice-Chancellor with pokers.
1918 E. A. Ward Writer’s Recollections I. vii. 139 First, came the stir of the procession; the long line of Heads of Houses, in their scarlet robes as Doctors of Divinity, all but the two heretics, Pattison and Jowett, who walked in their plain black, and warmed my heart always thereby! And then, the Vice-Chancellor, with the ‘pokers’ and the preacher.
b. The staff or rod of office carried by a verger, bedel, etc. Frequently in jocular use.
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society > authority > office > symbol of office or authority > [noun] > staff or rod
yardc1275
tipped stickc1386
bastona1400
mace?a1419
wandc1430
warderc1440
baculc1449
roda1450
verge1493
staff1535
tipstaff1541
verger1547
truncheon1573
vare1578
baton?1590
trunch1590
fasces1598
macer wanda1600
virge1610
batoona1652
stick1677
shaku1875
poker1905
1844 J. T. J. Hewlett Parsons & Widows I. ix. 196 From vice-chancellor down to vice-chancellor's poker-bearer.
1858 J. C. Thomson Almae Matres 8 That individual..preceded by three sleek, smiling Esquire Bedels, bearing the silver mace of office—heaven forbid I should call it a poker—is the Vice-Chancellor.
1905 H. S. Holland Personal Stud. ix. 130 Under the haughty contempt of the solitary verger [in Peterborough Cathedral], who had been forced to lend the authority of his ‘poker’ to those undignified and newfangled efforts.
1916 Times 9 May 9/6 When Dr. Sewell, Warden of New College, was Vice-Chancellor in the year 1874–8, Moon..was brought in by him as Bedell of Arts, and he carried the ‘poker’, as it was called by the undergraduates, in reality the ‘Arts mace’ of the University, before 12 of Dr. Sewell's successors.
1997 Church Times 3 Jan. 19/5 Vergers carry either a verge (sometimes called a poker) or a mace. Churchwardens carry staves.
11. A red-hot poker plant; the flower spike of a red-hot poker (red-hot poker n. at red-hot adj. and n. Compounds 1). Also poker flower.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > lily and allied flowers > allied flowers
dog's tooth1578
daylily1597
mountain saffron1597
phalangium1608
Savoy spiderwort1629
hemerocallis1648
tuberose1664
St Bruno's lily1706
superb lily1731
agapanthus1789
Spanish squill1790
erythronium1797
Tritoma1804
Spanish harebell1808
veltheimia1808
adder's tongue1817
bunch flower1818
Puschkinia1820
hedychium1822
eremurus1836
flame lily1841
lily pink1848
mountain spiderwort1849
lloydia1850
kniphofia1854
garland-flower1866
red-hot poker1870
swamp-lover1878
African lily1882
flame-flower1882
Scarborough lily1882
wood-lily1882
St. Bernard lily1883
torch-lily1884
rajanigandha1885
ginger lily1892
chinkerinchee1904
snow lily1907
sand lily1909
avalanche lily1912
Spanish bluebell1924
mountain lily1932
chink1949
poker1975
1975 Country Life 11 Dec. 1684/1 The hybrid between these two [kniphofias] is a delicate counterpart, the little pokers providing brilliance in the garden.
1986 Pract. Gardening Mar. 19/3 Kniphofia ‘Percy's Pride’, with greenish cream to yellow ‘pokers’.
2004 N.Y. Times (Nexis) v6/2 Many inviting cottages, often almost buried by agapanthus, lilies, hydrangeas, poker-flower and bougainvillea.

Compounds

C1. Similative (in sense 1).
poker-stiff adj.
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the world > matter > constitution of matter > hardness > types of hardness > [adjective] > stiff or rigid
stithc897
stiff1000
starkOE
inflexiblec1400
rigent?1440
unbowable1537
staffish1545
steya1586
unpliablea1618
rigid1618
unsupple1621
unpliant1624
immercurial1637
steeve1637
starky1657
impliablea1734
tharf1747
stiff as a poker1798
unbending1802
unbowsome1818
crisp1851
unbendable1884
poker-stiff1894
unfluxile1925
1894 Overland Monthly Mar. 272/1 It just let me out when he drove off with such a poker stiff back.
1971 Times 25 May 14/1 Paul Guers as the Abbé provides a remarkable study in sexual repression: the poker-stiff back, the fingers constantly biting into the back of the hand.
poker-straight adj.
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the world > space > shape > straightness > [adjective]
rightOE
straightc1350
rightfulc1384
line-rightc1400
rule-righta1450
streckc1480
unbent1483
straight forth1536
unwried1558
steel-straighta1560
untwisted1575
uncurled1597
rectified1598
cornerless1605
uncrooked1611
unbended1648
retent1656
uninflected1713
curveless1800
arrow-straight1834
unconvoluted1839
unwarped1855
curlless1861
undistorted1881
poker-straight1949
1949 Indiana (Pa.) Evening Gaz. 3 Aug. 8/8 Skirts are poker straight but most have fancy drape or peplum treatment around the hips.
2003 B June 137/1 She's bored with poker-straight hair and wants a new style that makes the most of her curls.
C2. In the sense ‘used for, engaged in, or relating to pokerwork’, as poker artist, poker drawing, poker painting, poker picture, poker-style, etc.Recorded in compounds earlier than sense 9, to which it now corresponds, but in early examples the basic form of hearth poker (see sense 1a) was used rather than a more specialized instrument: see note s.v. pokerwork n.
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1788 Times 1 Apr. 1/1 (heading) Exhibition of poker pictures.
a1854 E. Grant Mem. Highland Lady (1988) I. vii. 155 The walls of some rooms were hung with his ‘poker paintings’, pictures burned on wood by hot irons.
1869 L. M. Alcott Little Women II. iii. 30 Overstrained eyes caused pen and ink to be laid aside for a bold attempt at poker-sketching.
1887 W. Morris in J. W. Mackail Life W. Morris (1899) II. 183 Some decoration that she was doing in the poker-style, burning the pattern in.
1894 New Eng. Mag. Jan. 653/1 Nearly opposite the court was the rambling studio of Thomas Ball Hughes..whose poker drawings, the amusement of his idle hours, were sought by all who knew him.
c1900 W. D. Thompson Poker Work 24 Poker artists will find it convenient to be in possession of the principal manufacturer's list of Poker materials.
1982 R. J. Hollingdale tr. F. Löffler Otto Dix 42 The barricade consists of old furniture, a poker picture, a plaster bust, a broken crucifix, [etc.].
1986 New Eng. Q. 59 121 For a description of May's fireboard or ‘poker-sketching’, see Ticknor, May Alcott.
C3.
poker arm n. a perfectly straight arm; in quot. attributive.
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1890 Scots Observer 25 Jan. 267/2 Mannerisms noticed thirty years ago on St. Andrews Links..Alexander Hill's tip-toe eccentricities, and Mill's poker-arm, imbecile, pushing motion!
poker back n. (a) a very straight or stiff back (also attributive); (b) Medicine a rigid spine, esp. in ankylosing spondylitis; the disease itself.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > deformity > deformities of specific parts > [noun] > curvature of spine
curvity?a1425
lordosis1634
scoliosis1706
curvature1762
transcurvation1822
poker back1890
poker spine1917
the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > back > [noun] > types of
hogback1661
poker back1890
1890 N.Y. Times 11 May 20/2 Columbia is rowing what we call the ‘poker-back stroke’, governed by ideas which are rather antiquated.
1903 Lancet 14 Nov. 1361/2 Dr. Wynter also exhibited a case of Spondylitis Deformans (‘poker-back’).
1931 M. Allingham Look to Lady xxvi. 276 A single slim aristocratic figure, with the unmistakable poker back of the old regime.
1983 ‘J. le Carré’ Little Drummer Girl ii. xvii. 272 He had the aggressive poker-back of the habitually cautious driver.
2004 New Scientist 13 Nov. 55/1 In advanced cases, the bones, ligaments and tendons of the spine are almost completely fused, resulting in what's sometimes called poker back—a rigid spine with almost no movement.
poker-backed adj. having a very straight or stiff back; also figurative.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > discourtesy > [adjective] > not affable
strange1338
estrangec1374
formal?1518
cold1557
squeamish1561
icy1567
buckrama1589
repulsive1598
starched1600
unaffable1603
stiff1608
withdrawing1611
reserved1612
aloof1639
cool1641
uncordial1643
inaffable1656
staunch1659
standfra1683
distant1710
starcha1716
distancing1749
pokerish1779
buckramed1793
angular1808
easeless1811
touch-me-not1817
starchy1824
standoffish1826
offish1827
poker-backed1830
standoff1837
stiffish1840
chilly1841
unapproachable1848
hedgehoggy1866
sticky1882
hard-to-get1899
stand-away1938
princesse lointaine1957
society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > seat > chair > [adjective] > types of chair
caned1696
rush-bottomed1696
rush-bottom1729
roundabout chair1741
leather-bottomed1783
stick-back1783
poker-backed1830
flag-bottomed1840
claw-footed1858
seatless1871
cane-bottomed1877
cane-seated1881
sag-seated1890
sit-up1891
slat-back1891
sag-bottomed1893
spindle-back1896
shield-back1897
Carver1902
basket-bodied1903
panel-back1904
Cromwellian1905
hooped-back1906
saddle-backed1910
hard-arsed1933
sling-back1948
X-frame1955
hard-arse1964
1830 W. Watts Yahoo 74 What starch-phizz'd, poker-back'd, fine dukes and lords!
1898 Pall Mall Gaz. 9 Mar. 2/2 The journal..assumes its most poker-backed ‘we-told-you-so’ attitude.
1988 S. Rushdie Satanic Verses ix. i. 527 Poker-backed gentlemen with silver hair, achkan jackets and monocles.
poker-bearer n. a mace-bearer, a University bedel.
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society > authority > office > holder of office > ceremonial officials > [noun] > usher > mace-bearer > in universities
beadlea1400
poker1841
poker-bearer1844
1844 J. T. J. Hewlett Parsons & Widows I. ix. 196 From vice-chancellor down to vice-chancellor's poker-bearer.
1957 D. Balsdon Oxf. Life 36 The Majesty of the University arrives in procession: the poker-bearers (the bedels), the Vice-Chancellor himself, the Proctors, the Registrar.
poker flower n. see sense 11.
poker spine n. Medicine = poker back n. (b).
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the world > health and disease > ill health > deformity > deformities of specific parts > [noun] > curvature of spine
curvity?a1425
lordosis1634
scoliosis1706
curvature1762
transcurvation1822
poker back1890
poker spine1917
1917 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 30 June 860/1 Dr. John Drummond (Liverpool) asks for suggestions as to treatment in a case of poker spine in a man 30 years of age... The back is now immobile.
1950 Amer. Jrnl. Med. 8 164/1 There was a poker spine with 3+ neck and hamstring tightness and the patient complained of severe back pain and aching in the lower extremities.
1995 Jrnl. Pediatric Surg. 30 913/2 Many of the children with Pott's disease eventually developed a ‘poker spine’.

Derivatives

ˈpoker-like adj.
ΚΠ
1855 J. Brougham Basket of Chips 50 Mrs. Skindeep, muttering something about ‘stiff necks,’ settled hers into poker-like rigidity.
1914 J. Conrad Chance ii. v. 333 He was stiffening up in his corner to his usual poker-like consistency.
2002 Times Colonist (Victoria) (Nexis) 7 Dec. (Final ed.) (Life section) d2 It [sc. Persicaria bisorta ‘Superba’] forms a dense mass of leaves and bright pink, pokerlike spikes of flowers in early summer.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

pokern.3

Brit. /ˈpəʊkə/, U.S. /ˈpoʊkər/
Forms: 1500s pocher, 1500s– poker, 1600s poaker, 1600s pocar.
Origin: Of uncertain origin.
Etymology: Origin uncertain. Perhaps related to puck n.1 or to one of its Germanic or Celtic equivalents, although the nature of the relationship is unclear; or perhaps compare Swedish pocker (early 17th cent.), Danish pokker (18th cent.), both in sense ‘the Devil’ (and perhaps ultimately < the base of pock n.1). Compare earlier puchersome adj.
Now rare.
A hobgoblin, a mischievous sprite; a demon, a devil. Now chiefly in Old Poker: the Devil, Satan. Cf. Tom Poker n. at Tom n.1 Compounds 1b(b).
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the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > fairy or elf > [noun] > imp, goblin, or hobgoblin
thursec725
puckOE
puckleOE
goblina1350
hurlewaynes kin1399
Hoba1500
bogle?1507
chimera?1521
hobgoblin1530
chyppynutie?1553
bearbug1560
boggard1570
bugbear?c1570
empusa1572
puckerelc1580
puck bug1582
imp1584
urchin1584
fear-babea1586
hob-thrush1590
hodge-poker1598
lar1598
poker1598
bogle-bo1603
mormo1605
foliot1621
mormolukee1624
buggle-boo1625
pug1631
black man1656
feind1659
Tom Poker1673
duende1691
boodie?a1700
worricow1711
bolly1724
Tom Po1744
fleying1811
pooka1824
booger1827
alp1828
boll1847
bogy1857
beastie1867
boogie1880
shag boy1882
the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > quality of terribleness > [noun] > one who or that which terrifies > object of terror (usually imaginary)
buga1425
buggart1440
gay horse1483
bogle?1507
chimera?1521
bog1527
terriculament1548
bugbear1552
bull-bear1561
hag1563
boggard1574
scare-bug1583
bull-beggar1584
kill-cow fray1589
poker1598
bug-boy1601
bogle-bo1603
mormo1605
mock-beggar1611
mormolukee1624
Tom Poker1673
raw-head1678
hobgoblin1709
bugaboo1733
Tom Po1744
spectre1774
bogy-man1862
bogy1865
the world > the supernatural > deity > a devil > the Devil or Satan > [noun]
devileOE
Beelzebubc950
the foul ghosteOE
SatanOE
warlockOE
SatanasOE
worsea1200
unwinea1225
wondc1250
quedea1275
pucka1300
serpenta1300
dragon1340
shrew1362
Apollyon1382
the god of this worldc1384
Mahoundc1400
leviathan1412
worsta1425
old enemyc1449
Ruffin1567
dismal1570
Plotcocka1578
the Wicked One1582
goodman1603
Mahu1603
foul thief1609
somebody1609
legiona1616
Lord of Flies1622
walliman1629
shaitan1638
Old Nicka1643
Nick1647
unsel?1675
old gentleman1681
old boy1692
the gentleman in black1693
deuce1694
Black Spy1699
the vicious one1713
worricow1719
Old Roger1725
Lord of the Flies1727
Simmie1728
Old Scratch1734
Old Harry1777
Old Poker1784
Auld Hornie1786
old (auld), ill thief1789
old one1790
little-good1821
Tom Walker1833
bogy1840
diabolarch1845
Old Ned1859
iniquity1899
1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Folletto,..a hobgoblin, a robin-goodfellowe, a hodgepoker, an elfe.
1601 A. Dent Plaine Mans Path-way to Heauen 109 Euen as a mother, when her childe is wayward,..scareth it with some pocar, or bull-begger, to make it cling more vnto her and be quiet.
1653 W. Denny Pelecanicidium iii. ix. 208 Children being grown towards Man will not be scar'd with Bugbears. Poaker then appears to be no more then a Begger.
1784 H. Walpole Let. to H. S. Conway 5 May The very leaves on the horse-chesnuts..cling to the bough as if old poker was coming to take them away.
1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. Poker, any frightful object, especially in the dark; a bugbear; a word in common popular use in America.
1895 Trans. Amer. Philol. Assoc. 26 118 Mum Poker is a nursery goblin, brother..of Hodge Poker, and Tom Poker.
1989 Advertiser (Adelaide) (Nexis) 6 Oct. Euphemisms for the devil include Old Bendy, Old Roger, Old Poker, Old Nick, Old Billy, Old Bogey and Old Harry.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

pokern.4

Brit. /ˈpəʊkə/, U.S. /ˈpoʊkər/
Forms: 1800s pocher, 1800s– poker.
Origin: Probably a borrowing from French. Etymon: French poque.
Etymology: Probably < French poque, a similar bluffing card game (1752) or its etymon poquer to place a stake in this game (1752) < German pochen (1741 or earlier in this sense; > Pochen , the name of the game (1741 or earlier), also Poch (a1865), Pochspiel (a1811 or earlier)), spec. use of pochen to boast, brag (now rare in this sense), to insist, lit. ‘to knock, rap’ (Middle High German puchen , bochen ), ultimately of imitative origin. Compare earlier brag n.1 6.The origin of the final -er in uncertain; it might be < the ending of the French verb poquer, or it might represent a disyllabic pronunciation of French poque. Compare also German Pocher one of the pools in the board accompanying the German game, where stakes are placed (undated). In form with -ch- probably after German. The English word was reborrowed into French in the form pocker (1855, now poker).
Originally U.S.
A card game related to brag, played by two or more people who bet on the value of the hands dealt to them, one of whom wins the pool either by having the highest scoring combination of cards at the showdown, or by forcing all opponents to concede without a showing of the hand, sometimes by means of a bluff. Also figurative.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > poker > [noun]
poker1832
1832 Globe (Washington, D.C.) 3 Sept. Who is notorious for his skill and dexterity at Lieu, poker and Kentucky Brag?
1836 J. Hildreth Dragoon Campaigns Rocky Mts. xv. 128 The M—lost some cool hundreds last night at poker.
1855 ‘G. Eliot’ Life (1885) I. vi. 356 One night we attempted ‘Brag’ or ‘Pocher’, but Gruppe presently became alarmed at G.'s play.
1869 O. W. Holmes Cinders from Ashes in Pages from Old Vol. (1891) 255 Do the theological professors take a hand at all-fours or poker on week-days?
1891 S. Fiske Holiday Stories (Boston ed.) viii. 184 Poker, they call it ashore, but, as gambling is not allowed on government vessels, it becomes whist at sea.
1933 Times Lit. Suppl. 29 June 448/4 A small American town, whose main interests are bridge, poker, ‘beauty-culture’ and gossip.
1978 Time 3 July 42/3 The Justice Department was in no mood to be bluffed, even by troubled steelmakers, and talks dragged on and on in a months-long game of high-stakes political poker.
2003 New Scientist 20 Dec. 67/1 There are several versions of poker, but Texas hold'em is one of the most popular.

Compounds

C1. General attributive and objective.
poker deck n.
ΚΠ
1844 J. Cowell Thirty Years among Players 94 He was, apparently, quietly shuffling and cutting the poker-deck for his own amusement.
1953 Mississippi Valley Hist. Rev. 40 178 George Devol, an acknowledged master in the intricacies of three-card monte and stacking a poker deck.
2005 Times Union (Albany, N.Y.) (Nexis) 28 Feb. c1 It can be impossible to hunt down the four top aces in my poker deck.
poker game n.
ΚΠ
1857 W. Chase Life-line of Lone One 283 The Lone One watched the gamblers till he was tolerably well acquainted with their ‘poker’ game.
1932 T. S. Eliot Sweeney Agonistes 18 What about that poker game? eh what Sam? What about that poker game in Bordeaux?
2002 Arizona Republic (Nexis) 3 Feb. (Sports section) 14 c Hall, who also ran a publishing business, won his first horse in a pokergame in Texas.
poker hand n.
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1871 Evening Gaz. (Port Jervis, N.Y.) 10 Jan. 1/5 I've got a pretty good poker hand here, and would like to bet on it.
1935 Encycl. Sports, Games & Pastimes 467/1 The object of the game [sc. poker patience] is so to place the cards as they are played that finally each row and each column will form a poker hand.
2000 B. McNally How to play Poker & Win Gloss. 139 Wild Bill Hickock..was shot in the back during a saloon poker hand in Deadwood, South Dakota.
poker player n.
ΚΠ
1844 J. Cowell Thirty Years among Players 94 The cabin was entirely cleared..with the exception of one of the poker players.
1912 M. Nicholson Hoosier Chron. 137 He had the reputation of being a poor poker player, but ‘a good loser’.
1992 N.Y. Times Mag. 22 Nov. 72/5 There is a sense of feelings and impressions being withheld like a poker player's cards.
poker-playing n.
ΚΠ
1867 Davenport (Iowa) Daily Gaz. 10 July Whisky-drinking and poker-playing were the chief occupations of its citizens when not shaking with the ague.
1881 Harvard Lampoon 6 Apr. 40/2 Poker-playing is not to be learned in one evening, and Jack Pots are often a snake in the grass.
1991 Sports Illustr. 29 July 58/1 His poker playing losses..are well documented.
poker room n.
ΚΠ
1872 C. King Mountaineering in Sierra Nevada xiv. 285 They shoved the jury into a commodious poker-room, where were seats grouped about neat, green tables.
1983 S. Conran Lace (BNC) 433 ‘Why don't you go upstairs?’ suggested Baggs. ‘There's a poker room.’
2001 Arizona Republic (Nexis) 22 Oct. (Special section) 7 Visitors will find..50 poker tables, a high-stakes pokerroom,..blackjack and other games in the casino.
poker table n.
ΚΠ
a1861 T. Winthrop John Brent (1862) 295 He sot his white head down to the poker-table, and stuck thar.
1930 J. Dos Passos 42nd Parallel vii. 94 Pokertables piled with new silver dollars.
2003 Casino.com Mag. Autumn 23/2 A tale of daring and guile on the poker table which contains a few pointers on how to turn a bad hand into a pot-winner.
C2.
poker chip n. a chip (chip n.2 10a) used as a stake in poker.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > poker > [noun] > chips, etc.
red chip1854
buck1865
poker chip1870
blue chip1873
blue1884
1870 J. B. Mix Biter Bit 34 Ivory poker chips.
1929 P. G. Wodehouse Mr. Mulliner Speaking iv. 122 At the end of five minutes, Osbert was mildly surprised to find himself in possession of a smoking-cap, three boxes of poker-chips, some polo sticks, [etc.].
1994 Canad. Woman Stud. Fall 58 For a brief, but tantalizingly exciting time, the Palace Guard is said to have echoed raucous laughter and the clink of poker chips and champagne glasses.
poker dice n. (a) dice with playing-card designs on some or all faces; (b) a dice game in which the thrower aims for combinations of several dice similar to winning hands in poker.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > dice-playing > [noun] > other dice games
rafflec1405
passagec1425
treygobet1426
mumchance1528
trey-trip1564
lots?1577
novum?1577
fox-mine-host1622
in and in1630
merry main1664
snake1688
pass-dice1753
chicken hazard1781
Shaking in the Shallow1795
sequin hazard1825
chuck-a-luck1836
Newmarket1837
chicken1849
poker dice1870
under and over1890
sweat1894
crown and anchor1902
Murrumbidgee1917
beetle1936
liar dice1946
Yahtzee1957
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > dice-playing > [noun] > die or dice > type of
mathematics1692
poker dice1870
1868 W. B. Dick Mod. Pocket Hoyle 383 Draw Poker (Dice).]
1870 N.Y. Times 22 Dec. 4/4 She was familiar with the mysteries of cards and poker-dice.
1901 Game of Poker Dice 1 The only Implements required are Sets of The Poker Dice and Cups, according to the number of players.
1926 E. Hemingway Sun also Rises i. vi. 43 Harvey had won two hundred francs from me shaking poker dice.
1981 G. Brandreth Everyman's Indoor Games 210 This game is usually played with a set of five special poker dice.
2003 Record (Bergen County, New Jersey) (Nexis) 31 May f1 The..box contains seven board games, a deck of playing cards, and casino and poker dice.
poker face n. an impassive expression that hides one's true feelings; a person with a poker face.Quot. 1874 cites a review of a book published early in the following year.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > face with expression or expression > [noun] > without expression or expressionless
muffin face1777
mask1795
muffin countenance1823
poker face1874
dead-pan1933
po-face1965
the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > face with expression or expression > [noun] > without expression or expressionless > person
poker face1874
stone face1949
1874 Sat. Rev. 26 Dec. 837 Round Games at Cards, by Cavendish... Some parts of the book are at first sight rather puzzling. ‘It follows’, we read in one passage, ‘that the possession of a good poker face’ (the italics are the author's) ‘is an advantage.’
1884 Atlanta Constit. 10 Feb. 6/4 Senator Tom Brown, of Colorado, has what is called a poker face, and is said to be the best poker player in the world.
1934 E. O'Neill Days without End i. 20 The meaninglessly affable expression which is the American business man's welcoming poker face.
1976 P. Dickinson King & Joker vii. 104 I hardly need say it to you, because you're such an old poker-face anyway, but..you have to..behave as though you are the only person who knows.
1996 Financial Times 11 Jan. 2/5 Mr Zwickel is a highly regarded negotiator in the best IG Metall tradition, a man with a stern poker-face that reveals not even a hint of emotion.
poker-face v. rare transitive to look at (a person) with a poker face.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (transitive)] > specific looks
leer1834
poker-face1926
1926 H. C. Witwer Roughly Speaking 243 His teeth clicked and he gave me a long, thoughtful look, but I poker-faced him and went on plugging my [switch-]board.
2001 Tampa (Florida) Tribune (Nexis) 30 Mar. (Sports section) 5 Mel's been poker facing me.
poker-faced adj. having a poker face, impassive, deadpan (cf. po-faced adj.).
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > face with expression or expression > [adjective] > without expression or expressionless
mask-like1584
wooden-faced1605
void1796
muffin-faced1823
blank1859
blank-faced1881
poker-faced1915
stone-faced1932
po-faced1934
1915 N.Y. Times Mag. 6 June 17/1 Kelley was a taciturn little Irishman, poker-faced and with mild blue eyes.
1949 Time 12 Sept. 20/1 The poker-faced fellow was putting up a terrific fight.
1993 Village Voice (N.Y.) 12 Jan. 51/5 As Kaurismäki has inherited Fassbinder's poker-faced humor, von Trier aspires toward his flashy hubris.
poker machine n. originally U.S. a coin-operated gaming-machine which pays out according to the combination of symbols (usually representations of playing cards) appearing on the edges of the wheels spun by the operation of a lever.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > [noun] > gambling machines
gambling machine?1790
poker machine1899
fruit machine1933
one-armed bandit1936
one-arm bandit1937
pokie1965
1899 Sandusky (Ohio) Star 23 Sept. 2/3 The poker machine is openly displayed in business houses of good reputation and is surrounded by none of the paraphernalia of an ordinary gaming establishment.
1973 Sunday Mail (Brisbane) 29 July 5/3 Canberra soon may be the first city in Australia to have poker machines in its hotels.
1994 Pacific Daily News (Agana, Guam) 18 Feb. (Inside Focus) 3/1 Bingo, a popular game throughout the world, joins poker machines, cockfights, raffles and the lottery as forms of legalized gambling on Saipan.
poker patience n. a form of patience, the object of which is to form winning poker combinations in each row and column.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > patience or solitaire > [noun] > varieties of
spider1890
demon1893
Miss Milligan1899
Klondike1902
Canfield1912
poker patience1912
clock solitaire1919
pisha paysha1928
clock patience1937
1912 ‘Saki’ Stampeding of Lady Bastable in Chron. Clovis 55 He particularly wanted to teach the MacGregor boys..poker-patience.
1972 A. Christie Elephants can Remember v. 78 They played picquet, and poker patience with each other.
1999 I. Origo Image & Shadows i. iii. 88 He taught me poker-patience,..and wrote..to his father about my skill.
poker run n. North American a competition in which participants (often on motorcycles, skis, etc.) must visit a number of sites, collecting a playing card at each one, the winner being the one who collects the best poker hand (sometimes in combination with the fastest time).
ΚΠ
1956 Los Angeles Times 22 Jan. vi. 6/1 Competing car clubs from Downey, Rosemead and Pasadena are expected to take part in the Poker Run hosted by the El Monte Bachelors Club next Saturday.
1960 Chron.-Telegram (Elyria, Ohio) 12 Feb. 19/2 The Elyria Road Roamers will hold a poker run at 7 p.m. tomorrow.
1998 Abilities (Canada) Spring 12/3 Guest ski celebrities join participants in either a downhill marathon or poker run.
poker school n. a group of people meeting (esp. habitually) to play poker.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > poker > [noun] > players
poker school1944
1944 J. Devanny By Tropic Sea & Jungle 27 Tully was full of gambling joints, poker schools, troy schools.
1968 ‘E. McGirr’ Lead-lined Coffin iii. 129 Pope joined one of the large poker schools.
1994 I. Botham My Autobiogr. xviii. 335 He had already cleaned out the dressing room poker school and was on a bit of a winning streak.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

pokerv.

Brit. /ˈpəʊkə/, U.S. /ˈpoʊkər/
Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: poker n.2
Etymology: < poker n.2
1.
a. transitive. To take a poker to; to poke, stir, or strike with a poker. Also intransitive.In quot. 1774, figurative: to stir up.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > impact > striking > striking in specific manner > strike in specific manner [verb (transitive)] > strike with pushing action > poke or prod
prokec1225
pokec1330
punchc1384
pinga1400
purrc1450
brod1483
rowc1500
dub1513
pod1530
prod1535
job1560
poy1562
pounce1577
poach1632
pote1714
potter1747
poker1774
nug1866
1774 London Mag. Apr. 161/1 Unless we are continually roused, stirred, and pokered up, we forget the business we began upon.
1787 F. Burney Diary 19 June (1842) III. 387 I thought you had been too good-natured..to poker the people in the King's house!
1872 Webster's Dict. Eng. Lang. 850/2 Groping among the ashes; or pokering incessantly in the fire; rummaging in the dark.
1902 A. Wardrop Robin Tamson's Hamely Sketches 84 I pokered up the ‘raker’ an' slippit back aside wee Patie in the closet bed.
1997 A. Warner These Demented Lands 108 He..walked over to the log fire, pokered it down and rolled the wood to burn safely in the middle.
†b. transitive. To stiffen up. Obsolete.Apparently an isolated use.
ΘΚΠ
the world > space > relative position > posture > upright or erect posture > be in upright or erect position [verb (intransitive)] > become stiff
stiffen1714
poker1807
1807 J. Beresford Miseries Human Life II. xx. 248 Portraits..of your host's family all pinched and pokered up in the incredible costumes of their several centuries.
2. transitive. To decorate in or adorn (an item of furniture, etc.) with pokerwork. rare.
ΘΚΠ
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > pokerwork > [verb (transitive)]
poker1897
1897 Daily News 2 June 5/2 The Duchess..had executed several kid sachets in pokerwork, and her daughter, Princess Alice of Albany, had pokered a wooden stand.
c1900 W. D. Thompson Poker Work 12 Illustration of various articles which have been pokered by accomplished designers and artists.
3. transitive. Of a verger, etc.: to escort (a church dignitary) ceremoniously. Chiefly in jocular use. Cf. poker n.2 10b.
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society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > make clerical superior [verb (transitive)] > escort ceremoniously
poker1924
1924 C. Lang Let. in R. C. D. Jasper G. Bell, Bishop of Chichester (1967) iii. 36 I shall feel more free to laugh when I see you clothed in apron and gaiters and being pokered at Canterbury.
1945 G. Dix Shape of Liturgy xii. 414 The use of these episcopal insignia had no more significance than that of the cathedral verger ‘pokering’ the canon in residence to read the second lesson.
1975 Theology 75 260 Hamling was also verger, and did all the old establishment things like pokering the preacher to the pulpit, and generally gave the services tone.

Derivatives

ˈpokering n.
ΚΠ
1872 Webster's Dict. 850/2 Pow'ter-ing, pock'er-ing, pol'ter-ing, groping among the ashes; or pokering incessantly in the fire; rummaging in the dark.
1880 J. Lomas Man. Alkali Trade 21 In..the ‘front’ plate, are placed..the working door, pokering door, and means for getting at the grates.
2000 Star Tribune (Minneapolis) (Nexis) 12 June (Metro ed.) (Variety section) 1 e The kitchen range needs a good pokering every 20 minutes so that ash build-up doesn't rob it of heat.
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