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pokering

pokering is the present participle and gerund of poker.

Meaning of poker

Verb (1)

poker (third-person singular simple present pokers, present participle pokering, simple past and past participle pokered)

  1. (transitive) To poke with a utensil such as a poker or needle.
    • The King continued pokering the fire with his back to the door, and took no notice of Lord Chesterfield.1796 July, “The Late Lord Chesterfield”, in The Aberdeen Magazine, volume 1, number 2, page 70

Verb (2)

poker (third-person singular simple present pokers, present participle pokering, simple past and past participle pokered)

  1. To play poker.
    • Then we went to Mead's and pokered until morning.1929, West Virginia Wild Life, page 38

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Phrases with pokering

Questions about pokering

What is pokering the present participle and gerund of?
Pokering is the present participle and gerund of poker.

Words near pokering in the dictionary

  1. pokered up
  2. pokerface
  3. pokerfaced
  4. pokerholic
  5. pokerholics
  6. pokering
  7. pokering up
  8. pokerish
  9. pokerishly
  10. pokerishness
  11. pokerlike

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Adapted from Wiktionary: pokering (page history and authors); poker (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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