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Pokier vs Pokie - What's the difference?

pokier | pokie |

As an adjective pokier

is comparative of poky.

As a noun pokie is

a poker machine.

pokier

English

Adjective

(head)
  • (poky)

    • poky

    English

    Alternative forms

    * pokey

    Etymology 1

    By shortening from

    Noun

    (pokies)
  • A gambling device based on the card game poker

    • Etymology 2

    (en)

    Adjective

    (er)
  • slow

    • Etymology 3

    (en)

    Adjective

    (er)
  • (of a room or other enclosed space) small and cramped

    • Noun

    (pokies)
  • (slang) jail

    • pokie

    English

    (wikipedia pokie)

    Etymology 1

    From ; believed to have been coined in New South Wales in the 1970s.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Australia, New Zealand, slang) A poker machine.
  • * 2004 , Bernard Salt, The Big Shift , page 77,
    • For several decades until the early 1990s, Echuca–Moama existed in the consciousness of Melburnians as the destination for pokie' bus-trips. All of this changed when the Kennett Government legalised ' pokies in Victoria in 1993.
  • * 2006 , author not known, Sydney City Guide , Lonely Planet, page 148,
    • In reality, the cheap beer and walls of pokies attract anyone and everyone.
  • * 2008 , , Say When , page 171,
    • None of these people around me punching the pokies has walked in here today expecting to be a loser.
    Synonyms
    * poker machine, pokie machine, fruit machine, slot, slot machine

    See also

    * (slot machine)

    Etymology 2

    Shortening of genus name

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (informal) Any of several species of arboreal tarantula in the genus .

    • External links

    * (Poecilotheria) * (specieslite) * (comcatlite)