pokker

From Middle Low German pocke (“boil, abscess”), from Proto-Germanic *pukkaz, *pukkǭ (“pock; swelling”), cognate with English pock, pox, German Pocke. Maybe kopper (“smallpox”) is a euphemistic refashioning of this word.

• IPA^(key): [ˈpʰʌɡ̊ɐ]

pokker c pl

1. (dialect, archaic) a blemish or rash resulting from smallpox, pockmarks, also similar conditions from syphilis, etc.

pokker c (singular definite pokkeren, not used in plural form)

1. (archaic) devil
2. (swear word) damn

• dælen
• søren
• fanden

• “pokker” in Ordbog over det danske Sprog

Borrowed from German Poker, itself borrowed from English poker.

pokker (genitive pokkeri, partitive pokkerit)

1. poker (card game)

Declension of pokker (ÕS type 2/õpik, no gradation)
		singular	plural
nominative		pokker	pokkerid
accusative	nom.
	gen.	pokkeri
genitive			pokkerite
partitive		pokkerit	pokkereid
illative		pokkerisse	pokkeritesse pokkereisse
inessive		pokkeris	pokkerites pokkereis
elative		pokkerist	pokkeritest pokkereist
allative		pokkerile	pokkeritele pokkereile
adessive		pokkeril	pokkeritel pokkereil
ablative		pokkerilt	pokkeritelt pokkereilt
translative		pokkeriks	pokkeriteks pokkereiks
terminative		pokkerini	pokkeriteni
essive		pokkerina	pokkeritena
abessive		pokkerita	pokkeriteta
comitative		pokkeriga	pokkeritega

• pokker in Sõnaveeb (Eesti Keele Instituut)

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔkːər/

pokker

1. a mild oath or profanity; based on the disease smallpox ("kopper")

   Pokker altså, jeg glemte lommeboka hjemme.

   Ah crap, I forgot my wallet at home.

• “pokker” in The Bokmål Dictionary / The Nynorsk Dictionary.