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Meaning of pokerish | Babel Free

Adjective CEFR B2

Definitions

  1. unsafe, dangerous
    US, archaic, colloquial
  2. nervous, uneasy
    archaic, colloquial
  3. Stiff, like a poker.

Examples

“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.”
“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?”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

pokerlike pokey pokier pokiest poking poky

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