10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «POKERISH»
Discover the use of
pokerish in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
pokerish and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary ...
Pokerish, adj. (colloquial).—1. Stiff ;reserved :hence pokerishly. 1867. Broughton,
As a Flower, xxxvi. I'm afraid I'm interrupting a pleasant têteatête,' says the old
lady pokerishly. 18S3. Century Mag., xxxvi. 35. Stiff and pokerish,Ella called her.
2
The Ruins of Athens: With Other Poems
A door aslant, Hung by a single rusty hinge, reveal'd A pokerish passage to the
cellar; with A cobweb waving at its entrance, hung With carcases of flies, like
bones that strew The floor of a deserted robber's cave. The scantlings of the floor
...
3
The Language of the Civil War
Confederate Lieutenant General James Longstreet stopped playing poker as a
penance after three of his children died of scarlet fever in one week in 1862.
pokerish An informal word to describe something frightening, such as a "pokerish
...
4
A Surgeon's Civil War: The Letters and Diary of Daniel M. ...
It looks too pokerish in such a place as this.26 Supply train and mail arrive.
Supplies from Harpers Ferry, our base. Camp of the 121st Reg N.Y. Vols. near
Strasburg, Va., Aug. 15, 1864. My dear Wife: — Here we are clear up the
Shenandoah ...
Daniel M. Holt, James M. Greiner, Janet L. Coryell, 1994
5
Zoologica: Scientific Contributions of the New York ...
He said that it looked mighty pokerish off here yesterday and when he saw the
schooner tailing-in toward shore, a heavy sea rolling and tumbling in, and she
was as much as she could wallow to, he would have given fifty dollars to have
had ...
6
The Philadelphia Album and Ladies' Literary Port Folio
1 went to see her again yesterday, and she looked plaguy pokerish al mc which
made me ask of her what was the matter. She said I was an impudent feller and
didn't know heltykett, and then showed me my card. By golly ! how I la Red w hen
...
7
The Brevities: Pinakidia, Marginalia, Fifty Suggestions, and ...
In the early 19th century "pokerish" was widely used for "stiff, especially in
manner" (OED) but it largely lost that signification during the century, perhaps in
competition with the word "pokerish" for "eerie" from "poker" for goblin, bugbear,
demon ...
Edgar Allan Poe, Burton Ralph Pollin, 1985
8
The Western Monthly Magazine, and Literary Journal
... upon the side unprotected by a railing, and when asked if he was not afraid to
venture in so dangerous a - place, replied in the negativegand added, as he
slipped one foot over the side, 'that it was a somewhat pokerish-looking place.
9
A Green Hand's First Cruise
pass and re-pass the 'pokerish place,' as Amos termed the fettock shrouds,
several times, till we were rid of the squeamishness exhibited in the ascent. Glad
was I for one, that it appeared less and less dangerous at each successive
passage, ...
10
The Spy: A Tale of the Neutral Ground; Referring to Some ...
Well, to my notion,” said the pedlar, “ there's but little delight to be taken in any
such pokerish thing. But I dare. say the militia are of my mind, for half of them don'
t carry the ugly things.Lord !—lord !—Captain, I wish you'd go with me once into ...
James Fenimore Cooper, 1822
