poker

poker
{{11}}poker (1) "metal rod," 1530s, agent noun from POKE (Cf. poke) (v.).
{{12}}poker (2) card game, 1834, American English, perhaps from the first element of Ger. Pochspiel, name of a card game similar to poker, from pochen "to brag as a bluff," lit. "to knock, rap" (see POKE (Cf. poke) (v.)). Another version traces the word to Fr. poque, also said to have been a card game resembling poker. The earlier version of the game in English was called brag. Slang poker face "deadpan" is from 1885.

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