Poker vs Pokey - What's the difference?
poker | pokey |
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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of small volume, cramped
* 1913 ,
(slang) slow
(slang, of a car) fast
In lang=en terms the difference between poker and pokey
is that poker is all the four cards of the same rank while pokey is slow.As nouns the difference between poker and pokey
is that poker is a metal rod, generally of wrought iron, for adjusting the burning logs or coals in a fire; a firestick while pokey is prison.As an adjective pokey is
of a room, house of small volume, cramped.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)pokey
English
Alternative forms
* pokyAdjective
(head)- He loved the little pokey kitchen, where men’s boots tramped, and the dog slept with one eye open for fear of being trodden on; where the lamp hung over the table at night, and everything was so silent.
