pochard /pōˈchərd, pochˈərd/, pockard /pokˈərd/ or poker /pōˈkər/

A red-headed diving-duck (Nyroca or Aythya ferina), esp the male, the female being the dun-bird

poke¹ /pōk/

1. To thrust or push the end of anything against or into
2. To prod or jab
3. To cause to protrude
4. To thrust forward or endways
5. To make, put, render, or achieve by thrusting or groping
6. To stir up, incite
7. To dress with a poking-stick (obsolete)
8. (of a man) to have sexual intercourse with (slang)
9. To store data in a single specified memory location
10. To seclude or confine in a poky place (informal)

1. To thrust, make thrusts
2. To protrude
3. To feel about, grope
4. To potter
5. To stoop
6. To pry about
7. To live a dull or secluded life

An act of poking

pōˈker noun

1. Someone who pokes
2. A rod for poking or stirring a fire
3. An instrument for doing poker work
4. A stiff person
5. A mace or mace-bearer (facetious)
6. A poking-stick

poˈker or pōˈkerish adjective

1. Like a poker
2. Stiff

pōˈkerishly adverb

pokey adjective and noun see poky below

pōˈking adjective

1. Pottering
2. Petty
3. Confined
4. Stuffy
5. Shabby

pōˈky or pōˈkey adjective

1. Poking, confined
2. Slow, lacking energy or speed (informal)
3. Powerful (informal)

Jail

poker work noun

Work done by burning a design into wood with a heated point

pōˈking-stick noun

A small rod formerly used for adjusting the pleats of ruffs

better than a poke in the eye (with a burnt or sharp stick) (informal)

1. An expression of pleasure, esp qualified (Aust)
2. Generally, referring to something only moderately desirable

by the holy poker

A facetious oath of unknown meaning, perhaps belonging to poker²

poke fun at

To make the object of ridicule, taunt

poke one's head

To stoop, hold the head forward

poke one's nose

To pry

red-hot poker

Kniphofia or Tritoma

poker¹ /pōˈkər/

A card game in which players bet on their hands and the winning player takes the pool of staked money, first played in America about 1835

poker face noun

1. An inscrutable face, useful to a poker-player
2. Its possessor

poˈker-faced adjective

poker machine see pokie

poker² /pōˈkər/

A bugbear

pōˈkerish adjective

1. Causing terror
2. Uncanny

Old Poker see Old Harry under old

• muckinesses
• mucking
• muck in with
• muckle
• muckles
• muckluck
• mucklucks
• muck-midden
• muck-rake
• muck-raked
• muck-raker
• muck-rakers
• muck-rakes
• muck-raking
• mucks
• muckspread
• muckspreader
• muckspreaders
• muckspreading
• muckspreads
• mucksweat
• mucksweats
• muck-up
• muck-worm
• muck-worms