different between joker vs poker

English

Etymology

joke +? -er, but in the sense of a playing card possibly by alteration of Jucker, also the origin of the name of the card game euchre.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?d???k?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?d?o?k?/
• Rhymes: -??k?(r)

Noun

joker (plural jokers)

1. A person who makes jokes.
2. (slang) A funny person.
3. A jester.

   Synonyms: court jester, fool, jester

4. A playing card that features a picture of a joker (that is, a jester) and that may be used as a wild card in some card games.
5. An unspecified, vaguely disreputable person.

6. (New Zealand, colloquial) A man.
7. A clause in a contract that undermines its apparent provisions.
   • 1922, Farm Machinery and Equipment (page lxxxiii)

     Discussion of contracts and the many provisions contained therein led to a vote making it the sense of the convention that manufacturers should use a simple sales contract, free from jokers.

   • 1939, Canadian Parliament, Official Report of Debates, House of Commons (volume 218, page 858)

     Then, sir, on page 12 of the agreement there is a joker clause, which provides for payments in addition to the ten per cent, […]

   • 1942, Billboard (volume 54, number 41, page 5)

     Stone claimed that there was a Joker in the contract, one clause (No. 2) calling for two weeks' notice and another (No. 8) calling for payment on a par-day basis after the first two weeks.

   • 1958, Duncan Leroy Kennedy, Bill drafting (page 12)

     The object of these provisions is to prevent insertion of "jokers" or "sleepers" in bills and securing passage under the false color of the title.

Related terms

• joke

See also

• ????, ????, ????

Translations

See also

See also

• Wikipedia article on jokers (jesters)
• Wikipedia article on the joker (playing card)
• Wikipedia article on the Joker in Batman

Anagrams

• jerko

Danish

Etymology

From English joker.

Noun

joker

1. joker (playing card)

Declension

Further reading

• “joker” in Den Danske Ordbog

Dutch

Etymology

From English joker.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?jo?k?r/
• Rhymes: -o?k?r

Noun

joker m (plural jokers, diminutive jokertje n)

1. joker (playing card)
2. any wild card or similar, even in non-card games

Derived terms

• voor joker staan

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.k??/
• (Quebec) IPA^(key): /d?o.kœ?/, [d?o??.kœ?]

Noun

joker m (plural jokers)

1. (card games) joker
2. (computing) wildcard
3. (on a game show) lifeline
4. (Scrabble) blank tile

See also

Further reading

• “joker” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Polish

Alternative forms

• d?oker

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d???.k?r/

Noun

joker m anim

1. (card games) joker

Declension

Portuguese

Noun

joker m (plural jokers)

1. Alternative form of jóquer

See also

Romanian

Etymology

From French joker, English joker.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d??o.k?r/

Noun

joker m (plural jokeri)

1. (card games) joker

Declension

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?po?k?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?p??k?/
• Rhymes: -??k?(?)

Etymology 1

poke +? -er

Noun

poker (plural 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.

Synonyms

• (fireplace utensil): firestick, stoker

Translations

Verb

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

1. To poke with a utensil such as a poker or needle.

Further reading

• Fireplace poker on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

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

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.

Derived terms

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

Related terms

• when the chips are down

See also

• three card brag

Translations

Verb

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

1. To play poker.

Further reading

• Poker (game) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 3

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

Noun

poker (plural pokers)

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

Anagrams

• Koper, Perko, Repko, proke

Basque

Noun

poker

1. belch

Czech

Etymology

From English poker.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?pokr?]
• Hyphenation: po?ker

Noun

poker m inan

1. poker

Declension

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Hyphenation: po?ker
• Rhymes: -o?k?r

Etymology 1

American English, perhaps from first element of German Pochspiel, from German pochen, perhaps from French poque

Noun

poker n (uncountable)

1. poker (card game)

Etymology 2

From poken +? -er.

Noun

poker m (plural pokers, diminutive pokertje n)

1. somebody who pokes a fire

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

poker

1. first-person singular present indicative of pokeren
2. imperative of pokeren

Anagrams

• koper, krope

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English poker.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?.k??/

Noun

poker m (plural pokers)

1. (card games) poker

Further reading

• “poker” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English poker.

Noun

poker m (invariable)

1. (card games, poker) poker
2. (card games, poker) four of a kind

Derived terms

• pokerino
• pokerista

Polish

Etymology

From English poker.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?p?.k?r/

Noun

poker m inan

1. poker
2. straight flush

   poker królewski – royal flush

Declension

Derived terms

• pokerowy

Portuguese

Noun

poker m (uncountable)

1. Alternative spelling of pôquer

Quotations

For quotations using this term, see Citations:pôquer.

Serbo-Croatian

Etymology

Borrowed from English poker.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /p?ker/
• Hyphenation: po?ker

Noun

pòker m (Cyrillic spelling ??????)

1. poker (card game)

Declension

References

• “poker” in Hrvatski jezi?ni portal

Slovene

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /pò?k?r/

Noun

p??k?r m inan

1. poker (card game)
2. (poker) four of a kind

See also