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Unsafe vs Pokerish - What's the difference?

unsafe | pokerish |

As adjectives the difference between unsafe and pokerish

is that unsafe is not safe; dangerous while pokerish is (us|archaic|colloquial) unsafe, dangerous.

unsafe

English

Adjective

(-)
  • not safe; dangerous

    • Synonyms

    * (not held or fixed securely and likely to fall over) precarious, rickety, shaky, tottering, unsteady, unstable, wobbly

    pokerish

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (US, archaic, colloquial) unsafe, dangerous
  • *{{quote-book, year=1860, author=William Taylor Adams, title=Little By Little, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=John even went so far as to admit that it "looked kind of pokerish ," and he was glad they were in so comfortable a place. }}
  • (archaic, colloquial) nervous, uneasy
  • *{{quote-book, year=1894, author=Edward S. Ellis, title=Brave Tom, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=I wish Uncle Jed hadn't said what he did," he mused, when fairly beyond the town, "it makes me feel kind of pokerish ; why didn't I think to bring my gun along? }}