pokerとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈpoʊkɚ/
• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈpəʊkə/
• 韻: -əʊkə(ɹ)

語源 1

poke +‎ -er

名詞

poker (複数形 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.

同意語

• (fireplace utensil): firestick, stoker

動詞

poker (三人称単数 現在形 pokers, 現在分詞 pokering, 過去形および過去分詞形 pokered)

1. 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.

Further reading

• Fireplace poker on Wikipedia.

語源 2

American English, perhaps from first element of German Pochspiel, from German pochen, perhaps from French poque. First appeared in the 19th century.

名詞

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.

派生語

• poker chip
• poker face
• poker-faced
• poker up
• strip poker

関連する語

• when the chips are down

参考

• three card brag

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

動詞

poker (三人称単数 現在形 pokers, 現在分詞 pokering, 過去形および過去分詞形 pokered)

1. 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.

Further reading

• Poker (game) on Wikipedia.

語源 3

Compare Danish pokker (“the deuce, devil”), and English puck.

名詞

poker (複数形 pokers)

1. (US, colloquial) Any imagined frightful object, especially one supposed to haunt the darkness; a bugbear.

アナグラム

• Koper, Perko, Repko, proke