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pokerish

adj

Etymology

From poker + -ish. See poker (“evil spirit”).

  1. derived from *pukōn✻
  2. derived from poken
  3. derived from poken
  4. inherited from poken
  5. formed as poker — “poke + -er”
  6. suffixed as pokerish — “poker + ish”

Definitions

  1. unsafe, dangerous

    • 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.

  2. nervous, uneasy

    • 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?

  3. Stiff, like a poker.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for pokerish. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA