Poker vs Porker - What's the difference?
poker | porker |
A metal rod, generally of wrought iron, for adjusting the burning logs or coals in a fire; a firestick.
One who pokes.
A kind of duck, the pochard.
Any of various card games in which, following each of one or more rounds of dealing or revealing the 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.
(poker) All the four cards of the same rank.
(US, colloquial) Any imagined frightful object, especially one supposed to haunt the darkness; a bugbear.
(Webster 1913)
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A pig, especially a castrated male, being fattened and raised for slaughter.
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(slang, pejorative) An obese person.
(British, slang) A lie (from Cockney rhyming slang pork pie ). [Definition questioned: see discussion.]
Cockney rhyming slang
As nouns the difference between poker and porker
is that poker is poker (card game) while porker is a pig, especially a castrated male, being fattened and raised for slaughter.poker
English
Etymology 1
(poke).Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (fireplace utensil) firestick, stokerEtymology 2
American English, perhaps from first element of (etyl) Pochspiel, from (etyl) pochen, perhaps from (etyl) poqueNoun
(en noun)Derived terms
* poker chip * poker face * poker-facedSee also
* three card bragExternal links
* (projectlink) *Etymology 3
Compare (etyl) , and English puck.Noun
(en noun)porker
English
Noun
(en noun)- All the other male pigs on the farm were porkers .