pokker
Danish
Etymology
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.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [ˈpʰʌɡ̊ɐ]
Noun
pokker c pl
- (dialect, archaic) a blemish or rash resulting from smallpox, pockmarks, also similar conditions from syphilis, etc.
Noun
pokker c (singular definite pokkeren, not used in plural form)
- (archaic) devil
- (swear word) damn
Declension
Declension of pokker
| common gender |
Singular | |
|---|---|---|
| indefinite | definite | |
| nominative | pokker | pokkeren |
| genitive | pokkers | pokkerens |
References
Estonian
Declension
Inflection of pokker (ÕS type 2/õpik, no gradation)
| singular | plural | |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | pokker | pokkerid |
| accusative | pokkeri | pokkerid |
| genitive | pokkeri | 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 |
Norwegian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpɔkːər/
Noun
pokker
- a mild oath or profanity; based on the disease smallpox ("kopper")
Inflection
References
- “pokker” in The Bokmål Dictionary / The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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